National Cybersecurity Curriculum Program
One of the goals of the National Security Agency (NSA) is to advance the state of cybersecurity. Building a cyber-skilled workforce is critical to the continued security of the Nation, across social, economic, and political domains.
Towards this goal, the National Cybersecurity Curriculum Program aims to:
1) Develop national cybersecurity curriculum that maps to the National Cybersecurity Workforce Framework to be made publicly available for educational institutions preparing cybersecurity graduates for the future workforce.
2) Establish and implement a dissemination plan that includes an annual Cyber Education Workshop to showcase curriculum and allow cybersecurity educators to convene and discuss strategies for building and sustaining curriculum in cybersecurity.
3) Build a Cyber Cube that includes a dynamic library of cybersecurity curriculum and a community of cybersecurity educators committed to sustaining it.
In the 2017 fiscal year, NSA awarded 54 grants to universities to build courses and modules in high need cybersecurity areas. Sample topic areas include:
SCADA
Secure Software/Secure System Design
Privacy, Strategy, Ethics, Risk
Introduction to Security/Cybersecurity Principles
Networking
Wireless/Mobile
Competency Based Projects (ex. NICE Challenges)
Cryptography
Forensics
Risk management
National laws, regulations and policies
Cyber threats and vulnerabilities
Hardware and software reverse engineering
HCI and usable security