CyberCorps Scholarship for Service: Preparing Future Cybersecurity Professionals with Data Science Expertise

随着日益复杂和多样化的网络攻击变得普遍，训练有素和敏捷的网络安全专业人员进入行业和政府职位至关重要。这些专业人员应该善于分析现代计算系统生成的大量数据，以便于以识别新攻击所需的规模和速度进行处理。福德姆大学的CyberCorps（R）服务奖学金（SFS）项目将通过提供奖学金来教育接受数据科学方法和工具培训的新一代网络安全专业人员，从而帮助解决这些劳动力需求。福德姆SFS受助人将获得硕士学位。在网络安全与数据科学或数据科学网络安全高级证书的浓度。该计划将为学生提供全面的网络安全教育，包括对政府职位至关重要的技术和道德组成部分。该项目团队将利用最近授予福德姆的专注于增加多样性的奖项，包括GenCyber和国家安全局网络安全教育多样性倡议奖。项目团队的这些和其他努力旨在提高迄今为止在网络安全劳动力中代表性不足的群体的参与度。激励新的网络安全人员进入政府服务部门的目标将受益于福德姆与众多政府机构的合作，其小班制以及参与研究和推广活动的众多机会，例如网络防御竞赛。学生将有追求网络操作或政策/法律/管理轨道的网络安全课程的选择。数据科学课程将为学生提供操作，分析和可视化大型复杂数据集所需的编程技能，工具和经验。以学生为中心的课程，利用传统的网络安全和数据科学课程之间的协同作用，将导致网络安全专业人员谁是充分准备，以满足不断变化的网络安全威胁，我们国家的信息系统和数据基础设施。该项目由CyberCorps（R）服务奖学金（SFS）计划支持，该计划为建立或继续网络安全奖学金计划的提案提供资金，并与美国国家网络战略保持一致，以培养一支上级网络安全人才队伍。毕业后，奖学金获得者需要在联邦，州，地方或部落政府组织的网络安全工作与他们的奖学金支持相同的时间。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。

As increasingly sophisticated and varied cyberattacks become common, it is crucial that well-trained and agile cybersecurity professionals enter industry and government positions. These professionals should be adept at analyzing the enormous amounts of data generated by modern computing systems to facilitate processing at the scale and rates necessary to identify new attacks. The CyberCorps(R) Scholarship for Service (SFS) project at Fordham University will help address these workforce needs by providing scholarships to educate a new breed of cybersecurity professionals trained in data science methods and tools. Fordham SFS recipients will earn an M.S. in Cybersecurity with either a concentration in Data Science or an Advanced Certificate in Data Science for Cybersecurity. The program will afford students a well-rounded cybersecurity education, including its technical and ethical components, which are vital for government positions. The project team will leverage recent awards made to Fordham focused on increasing diversity, including GenCyber and National Security Agency Cybersecurity Education Diversity Initiative awards. These and other efforts by the project team aim to increase the participation of groups who have thus far remained underrepresented in the cybersecurity workforce.The goal of inspiring new cybersecurity personnel towards a career in government service will benefit from Fordham’s collaboration with numerous government agencies, its small class sizes, and numerous opportunities to participate in research and outreach activities, such as cyber-defense competitions. Students will have the option of pursuing a cyber-operations or a policy/law/management track for the cybersecurity coursework. Data science coursework will provide students with the programming skills, tools, and experience required to manipulate, analyze, and visualize large and complex datasets. The student-centered curriculum that leverages the synergies between the traditional cybersecurity and data science curricula will result in cybersecurity professionals who are well-prepared to meet evolving cybersecurity threats to our nation’s information systems and data infrastructure. This project is supported by the CyberCorps(R) Scholarship for Service (SFS) program, which funds proposals establishing or continuing scholarship programs in cybersecurity and aligns with the U.S. National Cyber Strategy to develop a superior cybersecurity workforce. Following graduation, scholarship recipients are required to work in cybersecurity for a Federal, state, local, or tribal Government organization for the same duration as their scholarship support.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.