EDU

This project addresses the need to train students, researchers, and practitioners on diverse hardware security and trust issues as well as emergent solutions. The primary goal is establishing a set of hardware security courseware and enabling adoption of these courseware through the development of an online Hardware Attack and Countermeasure Evaluation (HACE) Lab.

Cybersecurity education is critical for the development of future cybersecurity professionals, and for protecting IT assets. The advent of new network technologies such as Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has resulted in a high degree of flexibility in network infrastructure, but at the same time brought new security challenges. Although current research efforts have prompted positive progress in addressing security challenges and opportunities in SDN and NFV, the latest results appear in few educational materials targeting SDN and NFV security.

Big data applications are widely utilized today in a variety of scientific and social studies. The International Data Corporation (IDC) reports that more than 50% of all big data business revenues originate in the United States. Big data requires "bigger responsibility" in terms of protecting the storage, sharing, and access of the privacy-sensitive data.

Moving Target Defense (MTD) is a new security concept to increase uncertainty and complexity for attackers, reduce their window of opportunity and increase the costs of their attack efforts. MTD solutions involve a wide-range of advanced technical expertise, which current education models lack. The project from Arizona State University proposes to develop an MTD courseware for both senior undergraduate level and graduate level in computer science focusing on network-based MTD technologies.

Peer-review is a well-known process by which peers evaluate one another's work. In educational settings, peer review involves students evaluating the work of classmates. Peer evaluations can serve many educational purposes: they foster comprehension skills (as students read the work of others), encourage self-assessment and meta-reflection (as students contrast their solutions to others'), demand synthesis of comments from multiple perspectives (as students combine feedback from multiple reviews), and develop professional skills around giving and receiving critique from colleagues.