National CyberWatch Resource Center

保持计算机和信息系统的安全是一项重大挑战。商业、工业和政府都需要准备充分的技术人员来预防、检测和调查网络安全漏洞。网络威胁的增长催生了对更多具备网络安全知识和技能的员工的需求。2012年，在作为先进技术教育（ATE）区域中心的成功任期之后，国家网络观察中心（NCC）获得资助，作为ATE计划的国家网络安全教育中心。在完成这一角色后，NCC将转变为ATE资源中心，范围更窄，并将继续托管之前开发的一些关键资源和活动，以支持社区大学的网络安全教育和劳动力发展。资源中心将追求三大目标：(1)能力建设：基于有效的影响模式，促进、支持和提高项目、教师和学生的能力。(2)传播：广泛传播示范项目、实践和材料。(3)研究：推进基于证据的网络安全教育和劳动力发展战略和实践的发展。与其他ATE中心密切合作，NCC将继续作为社区大学网络安全教育的全国领导者。其活动将以其作为区域和国家ATE中心期间开展的宝贵努力为基础。主要活动包括：*支持社区大学网络安全项目的国家认证工作。*更新和扩展网络安全学位、证书和技术课程。*支持在整个课程中纳入网络安全学习模块。*提供网络安全技能发展研讨会，帮助教育工作者掌握新的网络安全概念和基于能力的教学方法。*提供论文开发研讨会和协作同行评审研讨会，以帮助教育工作者开发、测试和发布网络安全教育的新材料和新方法。*增加国家网络安全学生协会的分会和成员数量。*广泛分发示范性的课程材料、项目、实践、学术途径和合作模式。这些资源包括社区学院网络峰会、NCC数字出版社、网络安全技能期刊、“网络安全教育创新”认可计划，以及NCC网站、社交媒体、通讯和网络广播系列。*对网络安全工作人员、教师和学生的能力成熟度进行研究并发表。通过持续的合作和提供的各种资源，NCC将实现三个目标。首先是确保围绕网络安全劳动力需求的全国性对话反映出社区大学的重要作用。第二是提供监督，以便正在制定的劳动力框架和职业标准有强有力的社区大学投入。第三，促进社区大学学位和证书课程对行业和政府雇主的影响力和相关性。该项目由先进技术教育（ATE）计划资助，该计划侧重于为推动国家经济的先进技术领域培养技术人员。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。

Keeping computers and information systems secure is a major challenge. Business, industry, and government need well-prepared technicians who can prevent, detect, and investigate cybersecurity breaches. The growth of cyber-threats has created a need for many additional workers who have cybersecurity knowledge and skills. In 2012, following a successful tenure as an Advanced Technological Education (ATE) regional center, the National CyberWatch Center (NCC) was funded to serve as the ATE program's national center for cybersecurity education. Having fulfilled that role, NCC will transition to an ATE resource center, with a narrower scope, and will continue to host some of the key resources and activities that it previously developed to support cybersecurity education and workforce development in community colleges. The resource center will pursue three broad goals:(1) Capacity Building: Promote, support, and enhance the capability of programs, faculty, and students based on effective models of impact.(2) Dissemination: Broadly distribute exemplary programs, practices, and materials.(3) Research: Advance the development of evidence-based strategies and practices for cybersecurity education and workforce development.Working closely with other ATE centers, NCC will continue its role as a national leader in community college cybersecurity education. Its activities will build on valuable efforts that it launched during its period as a regional and national ATE center. Major activities will include the following:* Support national accreditation efforts for community college cybersecurity programs.* Update and expand model cybersecurity degrees, certificates, and technical courses.* Support the incorporation of cybersecurity learning modules across the curriculum.* Offer Cybersecurity Skills Development Workshops to help educators master new cybersecurity concepts and competency-based instructional methods.* Offer Paper Development Workshops and Collaborative Peer Review Workshops to help educators develop, test, and publish new materials and methods for cybersecurity education.* Increase the number of chapters and members of the National Cybersecurity Student Association.* Broadly distribute exemplary curricular materials, programs, practices, academic pathways, and partnership models. These resources include the Community College Cyber Summit, the NCC Digital Press, the Cybersecurity Skills Journal, and the "Innovations in Cybersecurity Education" recognition program, as well as NCC's website, social media, newsletters, and webcast series.* Conduct and publish research on the capability maturity of the cybersecurity workforce, instructors, and students.Through its continuing collaborations and the variety of resources that it provides, NCC will pursue three aims. First is to ensure that the national dialogue around workforce needs in cybersecurity reflects the important role of community colleges. Second is to provide oversight so that workforce frameworks and occupational standards that are under development have strong community college input. Third is to promote the currency and relevancy that community college degree and certificate programs have for employers in industry and government. This project is funded by the Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program, which focuses on the education of technicians for the advanced-technology fields that drive the nation's economy.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.