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Collaborative Research: Data Science for Cybersecurity — NSF Award to University of Southern California (CA, $375,000)

There is a growing shortage of cybersecurity professionals today, with the shortage estimated at 5.5 million in 2023. Cybersecurity professionals require education in data science to be able to properly collect, clean, correlate, store and analyze real system and network data, and make informed cybersecurity decisions.

Award titleCollaborative Research: Data Science for Cybersecurity
Award ID2436426
AwardeeUniversity of Southern California
CityLOS ANGELES
StateCA
Amount obligated$375,000
Principal investigatorJelena Mirkovic
ProgramData Science Corps
Start date08/01/2025
AbstractThere is a growing shortage of cybersecurity professionals today, with the shortage estimated at 5.5 million in 2023. Cybersecurity professionals require education in data science to be able to properly collect, clean, correlate, store and analyze real system and network data, and make informed cybersecurity decisions. This project develops a large set of hands-on, virtual materials for teaching data science for cybersecurity. These materials will be hosted on the NSF-funded SPHERE research infr
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