The Hack the Building 2.0 Hospital Edition Conference & Cyber Exercise occurs Sept 18 – 22 at MISI’s DreamPort facility in Columbia, MD. The Cyber Exercise features a competition with the top performing NCAE-C academic teams, from the preliminary competition held in April, competing against professional teams across military, government and industry. Teams will participate, either offensively or defensively, to work through scenarios focusing on a wide range of information technology (IT), industrial control systems (ICS), internet of things (IoT) and operational technology (OT) assets. The HTB 2.0 Conference focuses on bringing together subject matter experts across government, industry and academia to facilitate innovation and knowledge sharing around building automation systems, industrial control systems and healthcare cyber. A series of keynotes, technical presentations, and hands on training will be available to all attendees in addition to networking opportunities and social hours in the exhibit hall! HTB 2.0 Hospital Edition focuses on empowering the current and future cyber warfighter to defend our nation’s most critical infrastructure sectors!

There is a nation-wide shortage of skilled cyberspace and spectrum operations graduates to address priority national security and defense-specific challenges. The goal of the Virtual Institutes for Cyber and Electromagnetic-spectrum Research and Employ (VICEROY) program is to develop foundational expertise in critical cyber and spectrum operational skills for future military and civilian leaders of the Armed Forces and the Department of Defense, including such leaders of the reserve components. VICEROY augments traditional college curricula with hands-on, research-based, operationally- focused experiential learning opportunities that are uniquely tailored to match DoD’s cyber and electromagnetic spectrum workforce demands. It emphasizes the critical importance of strategic foreign languages, data science, and mathematical foundations of cryptography. It contains an elite eight-week experiential internship (MAVEN) that teaches DoD leadership and culture, research priorities and skills, communications, and culminates in a high-stakes, mission-focused capstone. Finally, the program breaks down student logistical barriers and ensures travel, housing, pay, and quality of life to promote student satisfaction and success.

California State University San Bernardino (CSUSB)’s Cybersecurity Center has expanded its cyber program’s outreach and economic community development strategy with the Inland Empire Cybersecurity Initiative (IECI), forming a unique academic partnership with workforce organizations, local employers, K-12, and community colleges to establish a regional pipeline that identifies and mentors cybersecurity talent from middle school to university-level apprenticeships and career-starting employment in Southern California. Sponsored by the NSA CAE Program (grant #H98230-21-1-0174), state government and regional workforce development boards, CSUSB has added to its cybersecurity student opportunities the option of apprenticeship, providing students the ability to work meaningful jobs in their field while earning their degree, as IECI simultaneously develops the expertise necessary to respond effectively to the industry needs in the community. The IECI coalition partnership includes academic institutions and employer-student connection organizations as Tomorrow’s Talent, San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools (SBCSS) ‘The Alliance’, Local Apprenticeship Uniting a Network of College & High Schools (LAUNCH), and community colleges Moreno Valley College (MVC), Riverside City College (RCC) and San Bernardino Valley College (SBVC). IECI builds on the nationally recognized cybersecurity program at CSUSB and cybersecurity education in the local community to support the apprenticeship pipeline through the phases of exploration, pre-apprenticeship, apprenticeship, and employment with competitions, NICE Framework-based mobile games, GenCyber camps, micro-internships, and career, curricular, and experiential training toward providing businesses with qualified, CAE-trained, world-class talented employees who have the cybersecurity competencies that companies desire.

The Carolina Cyber Network (CCN) is a comprehensive cybersecurity workforce development ecosystem that includes 18 colleges and universities across the State of North Carolina. The mission of CCN is to strengthen NC’s cybersecurity capabilities through a coordinated, work-ready talent development system connecting employers with needed talent and to harden the digital assets of the State of NC. The CCN was funded by the State of North Carolina and has quickly risen to be a national demonstration project that has assisted the White House’s Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) in the formulation of the recently released National Cybersecurity Workforce Development plan. CCN has succeeded in creating a holistic talent pipeline where normally competitive institutions are working together to address the cyber workforce shortage in NC. CCN has developed a true public-private partnership where industry, academia, and government are working together to solve the cyber workforce needs of the State and create a replicable, exportable model for other states. In a few short years, CCN has increased cyber program enrollment across its network by 60%, increased the number of cyber graduates by 197%, increased the number of CAE designated schools from 2 to 9 with another 9 on the pathway to designation, updated the curricula across 62% of the network, and provided millions in sub-grants of the State money received to member institutions to build out the capacity in their cyber programs.

The Hack the Building 2.0 Hospital Edition Conference & Cyber Exercise occurs Sept 18 – 22 at MISI’s DreamPort facility in Columbia, MD. The Cyber Exercise features a competition with the top performing NCAE-C academic teams, from the preliminary competition held in April, competing against professional teams across military, government and industry. Teams will participate, either offensively or defensively, to work through scenarios focusing on a wide range of information technology (IT), industrial control systems (ICS), internet of things (IoT) and operational technology (OT) assets. The HTB 2.0 Conference focuses on bringing together subject matter experts across government, industry and academia to facilitate innovation and knowledge sharing around building automation systems, industrial control systems and healthcare cyber. A series of keynotes, technical presentations, and hands on training will be available to all attendees in addition to networking opportunities and social hours in the exhibit hall! HTB 2.0 Hospital Edition focuses on empowering the current and future cyber warfighter to defend our nation’s most critical infrastructure sectors!

Lynne Clark will answer questions on the new re-designation requirements

CISA is driving the Secure by Design (SbD) Initiative which aims to shift the cybersecurity burden away from customers and towards technology manufacturers. This shift is central to our mission to serve as the nation’s leader for cyber defense and infrastructure resilience in collaboration with our partners. The SbD Team is hosting a series of cross-industry summits aimed at enhancing communication and collaboration among government, industry, and within industry. This workshop marks the initial step in our engagement and partnership with academia, signifying the start of a broader conversation and collaboration.

Objectives:

• Drive a deeper understanding and gain buy-in for SbD principles and methodologies
• Understand the academia environment—including the unique requirements, challenges, and opportunities to make meaningful change in computer science curriculum
• Discuss and develop a roadmap for future action

Come by and experience the NICE Challenge Project’s live, hands-on cyber work role challenges! Whether you’ve never tried the NICE Challenges before or have been using them for years, come experience our latest and greatest cyber workforce experiences. We have cyber challenges for educators and their students, ranging from small business systems administration to cyber incident response in ICS/OT. Try these free-to-use challenges today and integrate them into your program tomorrow.

At select times, Dr. Vincent Nestler, the NICE Challenge Project’s PI, will also be available to demo some experimental AI-based experiences.

Come by and experience the NICE Challenge Project’s live, hands-on cyber work role challenges! Whether you’ve never tried the NICE Challenges before or have been using them for years, come experience our latest and greatest cyber workforce experiences. We have cyber challenges for educators and their students, ranging from small business systems administration to cyber incident response in ICS/OT. Try these free-to-use challenges today and integrate them into your program tomorrow.

At select times, Dr. Vincent Nestler, the NICE Challenge Project’s PI, will also be available to demo some experimental AI-based experiences.

This hands-on learning lab will introduce attendees to open-sourced software that enables gamified cybersecurity competitions and training. Following this introduction, attendees will be given the opportunity to play freely available Capture the Flag (CTF) challenges from the President’s Cup Cybersecurity Competition. The President’s Cup is an annual CTF competition hosted by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) in partnership with Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute (SEI). Mandated by Executive Order 13870, the President’s Cup seeks to identify and reward the best cybersecurity professionals and teams across the US government and military services. To do this, CISA and CMU have utilized gamified scenarios and created immersive video games to maximize interest and participation in the competition. Now these innovations are available to the cybersecurity community at large.

Presenters will use the first 15-minutes to present and demonstrate these concepts/technologies and how anyone can use the open-sourced software for their own education and training uses. Then attendees will use their laptops and web browsers to access a cloud-based instantiation of the challenges for the remainder of the session. Conference Wi-Fi and power outlets are all that’s required for this highly innovative learning lab.

This hands-on learning lab will introduce attendees to open-sourced software that enables gamified cybersecurity competitions and training. Following this introduction, attendees will be given the opportunity to play freely available Capture the Flag (CTF) challenges from the President’s Cup Cybersecurity Competition. The President’s Cup is an annual CTF competition hosted by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) in partnership with Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute (SEI). Mandated by Executive Order 13870, the President’s Cup seeks to identify and reward the best cybersecurity professionals and teams across the US government and military services. To do this, CISA and CMU have utilized gamified scenarios and created immersive video games to maximize interest and participation in the competition. Now these innovations are available to the cybersecurity community at large.

Presenters will use the first 15-minutes to present and demonstrate these concepts/technologies and how anyone can use the open-sourced software for their own education and training uses. Then attendees will use their laptops and web browsers to access a cloud-based instantiation of the challenges for the remainder of the session. Conference Wi-Fi and power outlets are all that’s required for this highly innovative learning lab.

CISA is driving the Secure by Design (SbD) Initiative which aims to shift the cybersecurity burden away from customers and towards technology manufacturers. This shift is central to our mission to serve as the nation’s leader for cyber defense and infrastructure resilience in collaboration with our partners. The SbD Team is hosting a series of cross-industry summits aimed at enhancing communication and collaboration among government, industry, and within industry. This workshop marks the initial step in our engagement and partnership with academia, signifying the start of a broader conversation and collaboration.

Objectives:

• Drive a deeper understanding and gain buy-in for SbD principles and methodologies
• Understand the academia environment—including the unique requirements, challenges, and opportunities to make meaningful change in computer science curriculum
• Discuss and develop a roadmap for future action

The space station Asteroid Covenant has sent out a distress signal stating they have experienced a loss of its critical life support control system. The life support systems (i.e., oxygen and HVAC systems) have failed and there is only 60 minutes of air remaining before the demise of the crew. CISA and Idaho National Laboratory invite you to be a part of the adventure. This escape room contains a series of traditional escape room puzzles mixed with cybersecurity elements that utilize passive and active network discovery tools and techniques. Can you find your way onto the systems and figure out how to restore the life support systems before time runs out?

The space station Asteroid Covenant has sent out a distress signal stating they have experienced a loss of its critical life support control system. The life support systems (i.e., oxygen and HVAC systems) have failed and there is only 60 minutes of air remaining before the demise of the crew. CISA and Idaho National Laboratory invite you to be a part of the adventure. This escape room contains a series of traditional escape room puzzles mixed with cybersecurity elements that utilize passive and active network discovery tools and techniques. Can you find your way onto the systems and figure out how to restore the life support systems before time runs out?

The space station Asteroid Covenant has sent out a distress signal stating they have experienced a loss of its critical life support control system. The life support systems (i.e., oxygen and HVAC systems) have failed and there is only 60 minutes of air remaining before the demise of the crew. CISA and Idaho National Laboratory invite you to be a part of the adventure. This escape room contains a series of traditional escape room puzzles mixed with cybersecurity elements that utilize passive and active network discovery tools and techniques. Can you find your way onto the systems and figure out how to restore the life support systems before time runs out?

The space station Asteroid Covenant has sent out a distress signal stating they have experienced a loss of its critical life support control system. The life support systems (i.e., oxygen and HVAC systems) have failed and there is only 60 minutes of air remaining before the demise of the crew. CISA and Idaho National Laboratory invite you to be a part of the adventure. This escape room contains a series of traditional escape room puzzles mixed with cybersecurity elements that utilize passive and active network discovery tools and techniques. Can you find your way onto the systems and figure out how to restore the life support systems before time runs out?

After 20 years of annual reports, countless hours spent on redesignation applications, navigating new and changing programs… not to mention many times we’ve forgotten to click save in the new designation tool… Has it all been worth it? We’ll talk about the transformative changes seen at Dakota State University, which at one time was considered for conversion to a low security prison, and discuss the returns we’ve seen from our time in the NCAE program.

Explore Cybersecurity Careers with CISA’s new Micro-Challenges.

This presentation will introduce attendees to the new Micro-Challenges that appear on the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) National Initiative for Cybersecurity Careers and Studies (NICCS™) website. These challenges enable the public to discover cybersecurity careers by exploring the knowledge, skills, and tasks performed in the top cybersecurity workforce roles. Following the presentation, presenters will walk attendees through one of the micro-challenges.

This project addresses cybersecurity technical vulnerabilities and workforce shortcomings in the power grid of the Pacific Northwest. It assesses vulnerabilities from a bottom-up approach, local to the primary power source, across five states by analyzing existing federal and local data on local and regional public utilities, energy companies, tabletop exercises, and technology roadmap exercises. It will provide regional and state-level recommendations for investment in infrastructure and cybersecurity, workforce training, and policy implementations to ensure long-term sustainable industry-government cooperation between government industries with university assistance.

Cybersecurity requires concerted efforts to engage students of all ages and finding innovative ways to inspire the cybersecurity workforce of the future. From summer camps and escape rooms to on-line learning environments and hands-on activities, these can all be re-purposed and tailored to meet the needs of specific audiences and learning objectives, from middle-school thru post-secondary education, by leveraging current curriculum and content. This session is designed to showcase capabilities, build collaborations and accelerate education by extending existing investments and resources, creating best practices and developing a collective designed to strengthen our cybersecurity talent pipeline.

The "Train the Trainer" workshop is an immersive and comprehensive course that focuses on the CAE Community’s methodology for integrating competency-based experiences into students' academic journeys. This integration is crucial to better equip students for the dynamic demands of the cybersecurity workforce. At the conclusion of the workshop, participants will possess the necessary knowledge to assist CAE schools in both selecting and developing these competency experiences. During the workshop, participants will delve into the CAE's definition of "Competency" and explore the 5 Essential Elements of competency-based experiences. A specific competency experience will be analyzed for reflective and evaluative purposes. Following this, participants will be guided on how to craft competency statements utilizing the 5 Essential Elements. Furthermore, attendees will discuss anticipated challenges of introducing competency experiences across diverse institutions. They will also brainstorm potential solutions and strategies. This workshop emphasizes interactivity, necessitating active participation and engagement from start to finish. Upon completion, attendees will join the esteemed group of CAE trainers. They will also be presented with opportunities to collaborate with schools and to attend advanced training sessions in the future.

The "Train the Trainer" workshop is an immersive and comprehensive course that focuses on the CAE Community’s methodology for integrating competency-based experiences into students' academic journeys. This integration is crucial to better equip students for the dynamic demands of the cybersecurity workforce. At the conclusion of the workshop, participants will possess the necessary knowledge to assist CAE schools in both selecting and developing these competency experiences. During the workshop, participants will delve into the CAE's definition of "Competency" and explore the 5 Essential Elements of competency-based experiences. A specific competency experience will be analyzed for reflective and evaluative purposes. Following this, participants will be guided on how to craft competency statements utilizing the 5 Essential Elements. Furthermore, attendees will discuss anticipated challenges of introducing competency experiences across diverse institutions. They will also brainstorm potential solutions and strategies. This workshop emphasizes interactivity, necessitating active participation and engagement from start to finish. Upon completion, attendees will join the esteemed group of CAE trainers. They will also be presented with opportunities to collaborate with schools and to attend advanced training sessions in the future.

The Hack the Building 2.0 Hospital Edition Conference & Cyber Exercise occurs Sept 18 – 22 at MISI’s DreamPort facility in Columbia, MD. The Cyber Exercise features a competition with the top performing NCAE-C academic teams, from the preliminary competition held in April, competing against professional teams across military, government and industry. Teams will participate, either offensively or defensively, to work through scenarios focusing on a wide range of information technology (IT), industrial control systems (ICS), internet of things (IoT) and operational technology (OT) assets. The HTB 2.0 Conference focuses on bringing together subject matter experts across government, industry and academia to facilitate innovation and knowledge sharing around building automation systems, industrial control systems and healthcare cyber. A series of keynotes, technical presentations, and hands on training will be available to all attendees in addition to networking opportunities and social hours in the exhibit hall! HTB 2.0 Hospital Edition focuses on empowering the current and future cyber warfighter to defend our nation’s most critical infrastructure sectors!

Academia and private industry need to break the ‘chicken and the egg’ scenario with respect to changing the demand for secure/robust coding in the marketplace. Academia knows how to teach secure/robust coding, but employers (private industry) are not currently demanding it as part of their hiring requirements. How do we get out of this scenario? We have no metrics to validate how well undergraduate computer scientists --- trained in secure coding/development and skills --- will make an impact with reducing overall software vulnerabilities and thus reduce the influx in malware. How do we obtain these metrics and show a strong, competitive position in the marketplace, providing cost savings to companies’ CFOs and CEOs?

Come by and experience the NICE Challenge Project’s live, hands-on cyber work role challenges! Whether you’ve never tried the NICE Challenges before or have been using them for years, come experience our latest and greatest cyber workforce experiences. We have cyber challenges for educators and their students, ranging from small business systems administration to cyber incident response in ICS/OT. Try these free-to-use challenges today and integrate them into your program tomorrow.

At select times, Dr. Vincent Nestler, the NICE Challenge Project’s PI, will also be available to demo some experimental AI-based experiences.

Come by and experience the NICE Challenge Project’s live, hands-on cyber work role challenges! Whether you’ve never tried the NICE Challenges before or have been using them for years, come experience our latest and greatest cyber workforce experiences. We have cyber challenges for educators and their students, ranging from small business systems administration to cyber incident response in ICS/OT. Try these free-to-use challenges today and integrate them into your program tomorrow.

At select times, Dr. Vincent Nestler, the NICE Challenge Project’s PI, will also be available to demo some experimental AI-based experiences.

Come by and experience the NICE Challenge Project’s live, hands-on cyber work role challenges! Whether you’ve never tried the NICE Challenges before or have been using them for years, come experience our latest and greatest cyber workforce experiences. We have cyber challenges for educators and their students, ranging from small business systems administration to cyber incident response in ICS/OT. Try these free-to-use challenges today and integrate them into your program tomorrow.

At select times, Dr. Vincent Nestler, the NICE Challenge Project’s PI, will also be available to demo some experimental AI-based experiences.

Newly trained cybersecurity students are not able to fill the workforce gap for cybersecurity roles that have extremely limited room for error or require many hours of practical experience in the field. For example, industrial control systems (ICS)/operational technology (OT) cybersecurity, threat hunting, network security architects, and many other positions require a high level of experience in addition to knowledge. What role can academic institutions play to develop a workforce with the right balance of knowledge and skills?

This hands-on learning lab will introduce attendees to open-sourced software that enables gamified cybersecurity competitions and training. Following this introduction, attendees will be given the opportunity to play freely available Capture the Flag (CTF) challenges from the President’s Cup Cybersecurity Competition. The President’s Cup is an annual CTF competition hosted by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) in partnership with Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute (SEI). Mandated by Executive Order 13870, the President’s Cup seeks to identify and reward the best cybersecurity professionals and teams across the US government and military services. To do this, CISA and CMU have utilized gamified scenarios and created immersive video games to maximize interest and participation in the competition. Now these innovations are available to the cybersecurity community at large.

Presenters will use the first 15-minutes to present and demonstrate these concepts/technologies and how anyone can use the open-sourced software for their own education and training uses. Then attendees will use their laptops and web browsers to access a cloud-based instantiation of the challenges for the remainder of the session. Conference Wi-Fi and power outlets are all that’s required for this highly innovative learning lab.

This hands-on learning lab will introduce attendees to open-sourced software that enables gamified cybersecurity competitions and training. Following this introduction, attendees will be given the opportunity to play freely available Capture the Flag (CTF) challenges from the President’s Cup Cybersecurity Competition. The President’s Cup is an annual CTF competition hosted by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) in partnership with Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute (SEI). Mandated by Executive Order 13870, the President’s Cup seeks to identify and reward the best cybersecurity professionals and teams across the US government and military services. To do this, CISA and CMU have utilized gamified scenarios and created immersive video games to maximize interest and participation in the competition. Now these innovations are available to the cybersecurity community at large.

Presenters will use the first 15-minutes to present and demonstrate these concepts/technologies and how anyone can use the open-sourced software for their own education and training uses. Then attendees will use their laptops and web browsers to access a cloud-based instantiation of the challenges for the remainder of the session. Conference Wi-Fi and power outlets are all that’s required for this highly innovative learning lab.

The space station Asteroid Covenant has sent out a distress signal stating they have experienced a loss of its critical life support control system. The life support systems (i.e., oxygen and HVAC systems) have failed and there is only 60 minutes of air remaining before the demise of the crew. CISA and Idaho National Laboratory invite you to be a part of the adventure. This escape room contains a series of traditional escape room puzzles mixed with cybersecurity elements that utilize passive and active network discovery tools and techniques. Can you find your way onto the systems and figure out how to restore the life support systems before time runs out?

The space station Asteroid Covenant has sent out a distress signal stating they have experienced a loss of its critical life support control system. The life support systems (i.e., oxygen and HVAC systems) have failed and there is only 60 minutes of air remaining before the demise of the crew. CISA and Idaho National Laboratory invite you to be a part of the adventure. This escape room contains a series of traditional escape room puzzles mixed with cybersecurity elements that utilize passive and active network discovery tools and techniques. Can you find your way onto the systems and figure out how to restore the life support systems before time runs out?

The "Train the Trainer" workshop is an immersive and comprehensive course that focuses on the CAE Community’s methodology for integrating competency-based experiences into students' academic journeys. This integration is crucial to better equip students for the dynamic demands of the cybersecurity workforce. At the conclusion of the workshop, participants will possess the necessary knowledge to assist CAE schools in both selecting and developing these competency experiences. During the workshop, participants will delve into the CAE's definition of "Competency" and explore the 5 Essential Elements of competency-based experiences. A specific competency experience will be analyzed for reflective and evaluative purposes. Following this, participants will be guided on how to craft competency statements utilizing the 5 Essential Elements. Furthermore, attendees will discuss anticipated challenges of introducing competency experiences across diverse institutions. They will also brainstorm potential solutions and strategies. This workshop emphasizes interactivity, necessitating active participation and engagement from start to finish. Upon completion, attendees will join the esteemed group of CAE trainers. They will also be presented with opportunities to collaborate with schools and to attend advanced training sessions in the future.

The new re-designation requirements are based on a four-year process building from designation and culminating in re-designation. This workshop will be an opportunity for schools that were designated in 2021 and 2022 who will re-designate in 2026 and 2027, and will have less than five years to complete the process. Discussion will center on expectations and accommodations to account for the shorter preparation period.

The new re-designation requirements are based on a four-year process building from designation and culminating in re-designation. This workshop will be an opportunity for schools that were designated in 2021 and 2022 who will re-designate in 2026 and 2027, and will have less than five years to complete the process. Discussion will center on expectations and accommodations to account for the shorter preparation period.