SaTC: EDU: Integrating Cybersecurity Education with Cloud Computing

网络安全已被确定为国家面临的最严重的经济和国家安全挑战之一。然而，目前的网络安全教育并没有跟上快速变化的现代计算技术世界的步伐。该项目将制作课程材料，使教师能够教授与云计算环境相关的网络安全。一套可重用的虚拟平台将被开发出来，它将被广泛的受众用来有效地学习云计算中的网络和系统安全。该项目将开发的课程材料将提高学生的学习效率和参与度，随着时间的推移，这将造就一支训练有素、准备充分的保安队伍。使用这些材料的学生的反馈将有助于开发更有效的教学方法。本科和研究生的网络安全课程将通过开发云环境下的一系列实验室练习来更新。在每个实验练习中，学生将获得完成练习所需的背景知识，然后使用可重用的框架，学生将开发自己的代码并独立进行实验。学生将学习如何分析实验结果，总结从实验中学到的攻防策略。这些课程材料将使学生熟悉云计算中的主要安全和隐私问题，了解云安全研究的最新进展，加深对网络和系统安全基本概念的理解，并通过实践经验学习重要的编程和系统技能。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Cybersecurity has been identified as one of the most serious economic and national security challenges the nation faces. However, current cybersecurity education has not kept pace with the rapidly changing world of modern computing technologies. This project will produce curricular materials that will allow instructors to teach cybersecurity as it relates to cloud computing environments. A set of reusable virtual platforms will be developed, that will be used by a wide audience to effectively learn network and system security in cloud computing. The curricular materials that will be developed as a result of this project will result in more efficient student learning and engagement, which over time will lead to a better trained and prepared security workforce. Feedback from students using the materials will allow for the development of more effective teaching methods.The undergraduate and graduate cybersecurity curriculum will be updated by developing a series of laboratory exercises under the context of cloud environments. In each laboratory exercise students will be provided with the background knowledge needed to complete the exercise, and then using a reusable framework, students will develop their own code and conduct experiments independently. Students will be taught how to analyze experimental results and summarize the attack and defense strategies learned from the experiments. These course materials will allow students to become familiar with the major security and privacy issues in cloud computing, become aware of the latest progress in cloud security research, deepen their understanding of the basic concepts of network and system security, and learn the important programming and system skills via hands-on experience.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.