Cybersecurity Workforce

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Visible to the public SaTC-BSF: TWC: Small: Using Individual Differences to Personalize Security Mitigations

Submitted by Serge Egelman on Wed, 10/11/2017 - 3:07pm

Over the past decade, people have realized that failure to account for human factors has resulted in many software security problems. Yet, when software does feature user-centric design, it takes into account average user behavior rather than catering to the individual. Thus, systems designers have gone from designing for security experts to now appealing to the least common denominator.

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Visible to the public TTP: Medium: A Campus Pilot For A Privacy-Enabled Cloud Storage, Search, and Collaboration Portal for Education

Submitted by Radu Sion on Wed, 10/11/2017 - 1:23pm

As higher education institutions consider moving services to the cloud to save costs and improve collaboration, significant challenges to successful large-scale adoption still exist. Institutions are unwilling to risk cloud deployment because provable technological defenses have thus far been lacking. Control over sensitive data is relinquished without the institution's knowledge, liability is shifted and data breach risks are significantly increased. Further, regulatory-sensitive data has become an increasingly attractive target.

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Visible to the public GREPSEC III: Underrepresented Groups in Security Research

Submitted by tbenzel on Wed, 10/11/2017 - 1:16am

This proposal provides funding for the third GREPSEC: Underrepresented Groups in Security Research workshop, which will held in May 2017, in San Jose CA. This day-and-a-half-long workshop intended for women and underrepresented minorities in computer security and privacy, will be co-located with the IEEE Computer Society's Security and Privacy Symposium, the premier conference in security.

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Visible to the public EDU:Collaborative: VACCS - Visualization and Analysis for C Code Security

Submitted by stevencarr on Wed, 10/11/2017 - 1:06am

The proposed project will develop Visualization and Analysis of C Code Security (VACCS) tool to assist students with learning secure code programming. The proposal addresses the critical issue of learning secure coding through the development of a system for analyzing and visualizing C code and associated learning materials. VACCS will utilize static and dynamic program analysis to detect security vulnerabilities and warn programmers about the potential errors in their code.

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Visible to the public EDU: This is Not a Game---Using ARGs for Teaching Security Concepts to First-Year Undergraduates

Submitted by Zachary Peterson on Wed, 10/11/2017 - 12:56am

The project involves the design and development of a pedagogical alternate reality game (ARG) teaching Cybersecurity and Computer Science (CS) concepts to first-year, undergraduate students.

Outcomes Report URL: 
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Visible to the public EDU: Development and Analysis of a Spiral Theory-based Cybersecurity Curriculum

Submitted by Vinod Lohani on Wed, 10/11/2017 - 12:49am

In this SaTC-EDU project at Virginia Tech, faculty members and graduate students in the Engineering Education, Computer Science (CS), Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) and the Hume Center for National Security and Technology in College of Engineering are collaborating to develop and implement a unique curriculum delivery model in cybersecurity into the CS and ECE curricula using Jerome Bruner's spiral theory approach.

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Visible to the public EDU: Developing Security Education Materials for Future Advanced Manufacturing Engineering Workforce

Submitted by Weichao Wang on Wed, 10/11/2017 - 12:43am

The cyber security of advanced manufacturing systems (AMS) has raised significant interest amongst both the general public and researchers. However, corresponding education programs fall behind in many aspects. Limited curriculum or hands-on learning resources are available for security education in AMS, especially exercises that cover the complete manufacturing cycle. This project will try to bridge the gap by developing an experiment platform dedicated to security education for AMS, and designing a suite of course modules and hands-on projects upon it.

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Visible to the public EDU: Developing Open Authentic Case Studies for a MS in Cybersecurity Capstone Course

Submitted by Grandon Gill on Wed, 10/11/2017 - 12:36am

The project will develop a case method capstone course for a new multidisciplinary Master's degree program in Cybersecurity at the University of South Florida (USF). It extends a project that focused on developing a capstone course for an undergraduate program employing the case method pedagogy. That study demonstrated the feasibility of building a course entirely around discussions of local case studies and demonstrated positive learning outcomes using a variety of instruments.

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Visible to the public EDU: Collaborative: Integrating Embedded Systems Security into Computer Engineering and Science Curricula

Submitted by Ning Weng on Tue, 10/10/2017 - 11:42am

With the advancement of technologies, networked devices become ubiquitous in the society. Such devices are not limited to traditional computers and smart phones, but are increasingly extended to cover a wide variety of embedded systems (ES), such as sensors monitoring bridges, electronics controlling the operation of automobiles and industrial equipment, home medicine devices that are constantly reporting patient health information to doctors.

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Visible to the public CAREER: Securing Mobile Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) Against Stealthy Attacks

Submitted by Mina Guirguis on Mon, 10/09/2017 - 3:17pm

As Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) employing mobile nodes continue to integrate into the physical world, ensuring their safety and security become crucial goals. Due to their mobility, real-time, energy and safety constraints, coupled by their reliance on communication mediums that are subject to interference and intentional jamming, the projected complexities in Mobile CPSs will far exceed those of traditional computing systems.