NSF investments in cybersecurity research and education

Piotrowski, Victor

doi:10.1145/2179298.2179312

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“…The infrastructure required to stage an educational setting for students may run in direct contravention with those of information technology (IT) requirements in an educational setup [3]. To accommodate different nuances in cybersecurity education the IT framework for setting up cyber-security education has to adapt such that it forms an experimental and learning platform.…”

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“…An attack on the cyber-infrastructure requires a. Cybersecurity encompasses protection of digital assets, preserving user privacy and counteracting threats to digital assets in an ethical and legal way. Digital Assets in this context refers to: The primary objectives of cybersecurity education encompass [2], [3]: To accomplish these objectives of a cybersecurity education an infrastructure to support networking concepts, software development framework, a staging area to understand attacks in a computing system and hardware. Classification of different types attack scenarios are required to chalk up the IT based education for a cyber-infrastructure.…”

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Security challenges in IT infrastructure for cybersecurity curriculum support

Anand

2012

Proceedings of the 40th Annual ACM SIGUCCS Conference on User Services

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With the evolving challenges in cyberspace there is a need for curriculum development in cybersecurity. Students in a cybersecurity curriculum need to access and learn about topics in cybersecurity such that they have a clear understanding of the sophistication of threats such that they can implement mitigation response. Development of hands on curriculum in cybersecurity therefore poses significant challenges to the information technology infrastructure in an instructional environment. Among the various challenges one of the significant challenges involves attack simulations of a cyber-attack requiring the creation of a walled infrastructure to accommodate the equipment where computing services are hosted. The challenges of containing malicious software which can be released by accident are also significant to the IT infrastructure. In this paper we show how the walled infrastructure with computing service can be created such that cybersecurity curriculum can be institutionalized where students locally and remotely can access this infrastructure. The walled IT infrastructure is based on risk escalation wherein connectivity and access to computing resources is contained as risk to computing infrastructure increases. We also show IT challenges in curriculum development on topics of hardware, software and networking for cybersecurity and how virtualization is a means for solving the challenges in those respective topics.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%