SaTC: EDU: Building a Cyber Security Enhanced Education Laboratory for Hands-on Experience Oriented Cybersecurity Education

为了加强国家的网络安全，必须扩大进入该领域的国内人才的劳动力管道，并扩大其多样性。与许多现有的网络安全课程不同，该课程主要提供概念概述和理论分析，该项目旨在将理论与结构良好的动手实践活动相结合。该项目将开发新汉普郡网络安全增强教育实验室(NHCyberSEE Lab)，以实现理论和实践经验的整合。NHCyberSEE实验室将直接惠及大量大学生和小企业员工。这个教育项目在新汉普郡大学的网络安全领导、教育和外联中心(CCLEO)中发挥着关键作用，该中心得到了国土安全部的认可。该项目在网络安全教育和宣传之间建立了牢固的联系。通过促进对参加网络安全课程的学生的教育，这一目标有可能增加网络安全工作人员的多样性。一是开发用于攻击分析和防御战略评估的综合评估工具包。第二是推进现有的特别网络安全课程，在课程中补充攻击检测和缓解等实用技能培训。第三是建立一个网络安全辅修专业、两个证书项目和一个实习渠道，以丰富新汉普郡大学(UNH)的教学基础设施，并在UNH与新汉普郡的社区学院和企业之间建立牢固的联系。第四个也是最后一个目标是加强现有的外展计划，以吸引K-12学生进入STEM，并增加代表不足的群体对网络安全教育和研究的参与。NHCyberSEE实验室中提供的设施增强了学生在硬件/软件/系统/网络级攻击注入、检测和缓解方面的技能。该项目支持开发一系列网络安全课程，从面向STEM和非STEM学生的发现课程、本科水平的核心课程和专业选修课、研究生水平的课程，到证书完成实习课程。该项目的成果包括实践项目、以体验为导向的课程和四个外展项目。该项目将促进将以前由NSF资助的项目的研究成果转化为教育材料，以造福于大量的学生。这个项目得到了安全和值得信赖的网络空间(SATC)计划的支持，该计划为解决网络安全和隐私问题的提案提供资金，在这种情况下，特别是网络安全教育。SATC计划与联邦网络安全研究和发展战略计划和国家隐私研究战略保持一致，以保护和维护网络系统日益增长的社会和经济效益，同时确保安全和隐私。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

To enhance the Nation’s cybersecurity, it is imperative to enlarge the workforce pipeline of domestic talent entering the field and broaden its diversity. Unlike many existing cybersecurity courses that mainly offer conceptual overviews and theoretical analysis, this project aims to integrate theories with well-structured hands-on practice activities. This project will develop the New Hampshire Cyber Security Enhanced Education Laboratory (NHCyberSEE Lab) to achieve this integration of theory and hands-on experience. The NHCyberSEE Lab will directly benefit a large population of college students and employees in small businesses. This education project plays a critical role in the University of New Hampshire’s Center for Cybersecurity Leadership, Education and Outreach (CCLEO), accredited by the Department of Homeland Security. The project builds a strong connection between cybersecurity education and outreach. By promoting the education of students who have to date been underrepresented in their participation in cybersecurity courses of study, this objective holds potential to increase the diversity of the cybersecurity workforce.Four goals guide this project. First is to develop a comprehensive evaluation kit for attack analysis and defense strategy assessment. Second is to advance the existing ad-hoc cybersecurity courses by supplementing the curriculum with training in practical skills, such as attack detection and mitigation. Third is to establish a cybersecurity minor, two certificate programs, and an internship pipeline to enrich the University of New Hampshire (UNH) teaching infrastructure and to build strong ties between UNH and community colleges and businesses in New Hampshire. The fourth and final goal aims to enhance existing outreach programs to attract K-12 students to STEM and increase the participation of underrepresented groups in cybersecurity education and research. The facilities available in the NHCyberSEE Lab reinforce students’ skill sets in hardware/software/system/network-level attack injection, detection, and mitigation. This project supports the development of a series of cybersecurity courses, from discovery courses for STEM and non-STEM students, undergraduate-level core curriculum and professional electives, graduate-level courses, to certificate completion internship courses. Outcomes of this project include hands-on projects, experience-oriented courses, and four outreach programs. This project will facilitate the transfer of research outcomes from previous NSF-funded projects into education materials to benefit a large pool of students. This project is supported by the Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program, which funds proposals that address cybersecurity and privacy, and in this case specifically cybersecurity education. The SaTC program aligns with the Federal Cybersecurity Research and Development Strategic Plan and the National Privacy Research Strategy to protect and preserve the growing social and economic benefits of cyber systems while ensuring security and privacy.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.