The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $300,000 Project Grant under the CFDA 47.070 Computer and Information Science and Engineering program to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (RF SUNY) to develop an open cloud-based "CTF5G" platform for cybersecurity training and workforce development focused on 5G network security. The key products to be delivered through this 2-year project are: Automating the workflow for setting up 5G network-based...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $200,000 Project Grant to support research titled "CREST-PRF: ACCESS CONTROL FRAMEWORK FOR IOT ECOSYSTEM WITH SMART HOME IOT AND INDUSTRIAL IOT CASE STUDIES" under the STEM Education program (CFDA #47.076). The two-year award beginning December 15, 2021 will develop an access control framework for Internet of Things ecosystems, with case studies focused on smart home and industrial IoT applications. The STEM Education program aims to ensure the...
This $300,000 National Science Foundation project grant under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to develop personalized secure programming learning projects motivated by real-world security vulnerabilities. The Research Foundation of the City University of New York at Brooklyn College will work with faculty to map secure programming topics to categories of vulnerabilities, build easy-to-use learning projects from selected vulnerabilities, and develop a personalized project delivery...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $371,449 Project Grant under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program to the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) to integrate cybersecurity into computing curricula using a project-based learning (PBL) approach focused on identity and access management (IAM). The overarching goal is to encourage authentic learning experiences in cybersecurity by threading an IAM-themed PBL curriculum through existing computer science-related courses. RIT will...
This $500,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace program will fund the University of Florida to develop an integrated hands-on platform and suite of experiments for disseminating vehicular cybersecurity concepts. The platform aims to educate multidisciplinary undergraduate students across science, technology, engineering and mathematics areas relevant to transportation security. It will provide a comprehensive hands-on lab experience as well as...
This $300,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports research to improve wireless network security designs. The project aims to (1) create stronger, practical adversary models to understand the limitations of security for Internet of Things (IoT) systems that leverage wireless channel properties, and (2) design new defense strategies to advance the state-of-the-art in wireless network...
This three-year, $244,997 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program aims to develop scalable methods for analyzing large-scale network traffic data to quantify internet-of-things (IoT) device insecurities and characterize malicious IoT campaigns. The awardee, San Diego State University Research Foundation, will work with collaborators to design algorithms and formal methods using supervised deep learning to fingerprint exploited...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $300,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program to the University of Oklahoma to conduct research on improving wireless network security designs. The 3-year project aims to: (i) create stronger adversary models to understand the limitations of security in IoT systems leveraging wireless channel properties, and (ii) design new defense strategies to advance the state-of-the-art in wireless network...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education under the STEM Education (47.076) program provides $240,000 to the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth to develop a cybersecurity education framework for computer science students. The project aims to build a "cybersecurity mindset" by integrating threat-driven cybersecurity modules into non-cybersecurity computer science courses, allowing students to build, break, and fix...
This $650,000 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program. The primary objectives are to develop educational and training materials, including virtual labs, for operational technology (OT)/industrial control systems (ICS) and IT cybersecurity. The materials will be adopted by high schools, community colleges, and universities in the Carolinas. The project also plans to modernize the academic cloud with new cybersecurity...