INSuRE: Collaborating Centers of Academic Excellence Engage Students in Cybersecurity Research

Cybersecurity Attacks on Academic Data and Personal Information and the Mediating Role of Education and Employment

“…Human hacking largely involves using immoral means to gain access to individuals' credentials such as passwords, credit card details and bank accounts and using them to gain access to secure networks. Among the well documented approaches that hackers employ to access confidential user information through the "manipulation of people's tendency to trust, or baiting them as they try to follow their curiosities and desires" [44] [45]. Despite the high levels of awareness among consumers regarding the dangers of the cyberspace to personal information, some individuals still fall prey to the hacker's tricks.…”

Defects and Vulnerabilities in Smart Contracts, a Classification using the NIST Bugs Framework

“…This undergraduate student research project is supported via the Information Security Research and Education (INSuRE) project [24].…”

Examining the Relationship of Active Team-based Learning and Technology and Engineering Students' Research Self-efficacy in a Cybersecurity Traineeship Class

“…Using a Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test, this study found students' research self-efficacy posttest score was higher than pretest score, and the observed difference was statistically significant [43] in Table 5. Performing a Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test, males and females had a higher research self-efficacy posttest score than pretest.…”

“…The setting for this study was a class offered through the Information Security Research Education (INSuRE) project, which is a network of National Centers of Academic Excellence in Research (CAE-R) universities, the National Security Agency (NSA), various national labs (e.g., Oakridge National Lab and Sandia National Lab), and other government agencies and organizations [43]. The INSuRE project seeks to address cybersecurity challenges, specifically through developing research competencies and closing the workforce shortage gap.…”

“…A core component of the INSuRE project is the offering of cybersecurity research traineeship experiences to graduate and undergraduate students from CAE-R universities. In these experiences, students performed a set of research tasks (see Table 1) in a team and worked directly with a mentor from a government agency or lab on a real unclassified cybersecurity problem [43], [44]. This study followed an INSuRE project class cohort in 2016, and considered the relationships between course participation, genders, and self-efficacy.…”