Projects

Grants

  • INSuRE: Information Security Research and Education
    • PIs: John Springer, Melissa Dark (Purdue); Filipo Sharevski (DePaul)
    • National Security Agency (NSA)
    • 2018

    • The INSuRE network allows students to work on authentic, open-ended applied research problems in cybersecurity under the mentorship of faculty and technical directors from the top cybersecurity research institutions in the nation
  • CORE: Platform for Cybersecurity Education through Gamification
    • PIs: Filipo Sharevski, Jean-Philippe Labruyere
    • National Security Agency (NSA)
    • 2017

    • CORE is a scalable and lightweight experiential range for learning cybersecurity through gamification. The CORE platform incorporates an innovative approach to experiential cybersecurity learning: educating students in cybersecurity in a game-like learning environment with a focus on real-time reconnaissance, attack, defense, and live forensics challenges.
  • Secure Design: Course and Experimentation Workshop
    • PIs: Filipo Sharevski, Jessica Westbrook, Adam Trowbridge
    • National Security Agency (NSA)
    • 2016

    • Secure Design: Course and Experimentation Workshop covers an innovative approach to cybersecurity pedagogy: educating students in cybersecurity, information systems, interaction design, and graphic design in parallel, with a focus on Internet-of-Things architecture. This approach extends usable security, while better integrating cybersecurity and design.

Communities of Practice

  • Introduction to Cybersecurity
    • Lead: California State University, San Bernardino
    • National Security Agency (NSA)
    • 2019

    • Introduction to Cybersecurity curriculum developement via the National Cybersecurity Curriculum Program (NCCP)
  • Secure Coding
    • Lead: University of North Carolina, Charlotte
    • National Security Agency (NSA)
    • 2018

    • Secure Coding curriculum developement via the National Cybersecurity Curriculum Program (NCCP)

Edirtorial

  • Cybersecurity Skills Journal: Practice and Research
    • Editorial Board member
    • 2018-

    • The Cybersecurity Skills Journal: Practice and Research is the nation’s first hybrid-access scholarly publication focused exclusively on cybersecurity skills. It seeks to raise the capability maturity of the cybersecurity workforce through open and free dissemination of research on evidence-based practices and private access to digital tools and practice guides.