This submission will be a 15 minute overview of a post-GenCyber Teacher Camp activity that provided guidance to teachers for a focused Raspberry PI project for their high school students. The project included post-camp follow-on meetings for teachers to develop their skills and proficiency in using the Raspberry Pi to teach Linux concepts and cybersecurity tools.UMGC trained eight dedicated H.S. teachers who were committed to implementing the project in their schools. All teachers had varying successes and challenges.

The Computer Forensics Teaching Resources Workshop is designed to share our experience teaching CECS 7235 Computer Forensics and CECS 7237 Advanced Computer Forensics to Computer Science graduate students at Politechnic University of Puerto Rico over the last decade. We will begin with a brief overview discussing the relationship between Computer Forensics and Cyber Defense and our Computer Forensics Graduate Certificate Program. We will then describe the teaching resources that we are using in our courses with an emphasis on hands-on laboratory experience.

Software Defined Network (SDN) is a programmable network that separates the network data plane from the control plane. However, lots of security threats and issues are concerned in software defined network. In this work, in order to reasonably complete the cyber attack situation evaluation in the SDNs, we proposed a cyber attack situation evaluating method based on multi-dimensional features analysis in SDNs. Cyber attack detection features were considered and improved their computation methods about four typical cyber attacks in SDN.

We propose a designed growth path for emerging researchers that does not currently exist. When Ph.D.’s defend, it is expected that their directed training and research focus will provide clear direction for impactful future work, but that assumption has not been realized. We propose an entry path for graduate students to better understand and contribute to research and administration publication functions that should enhance their academic prospects and help them add to scientific solutions business desperately needs.

The ultimate goal of an educator is to build students towards a successful career outside the classroom. The top careers today focus on technology, from software development to IT management to cybersecurity, yet businesses often struggle to find qualified people to fill these positions. This session provides actionable solutions for teachers and school administrators for teaching critical computing, cybersecurity, and technical troubleshooting skills.

This proposal discusses the findings of an interesting research study with the objective of identifying writing and communication challenges faced by both cybersecurity students and professionals in the field and proposing effective solutions to address these challenges. This research study was part of a comprehensive project (funded by the NSA) intended to enhance cybersecurity education in western PA.

The use of NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework (NCWF) is critically important to ensure consistency across cybersecurity jobs in government, industry, and academia. Nova Southeastern University (NSU) has been a leader in cybersecurity education for many years and was among the first in the state of Florida to receive CAE designation. NSU received the initial CAE designation in March 2005 and received CAE re-designation in 2009 and 2014.

Covid-19 has created tremendous challenges for academia. Last spring, faculty across the U.S. moved suddenly and completely to virtual teaching. This fall, as many of us continue to teach primarily online, we are developing quality resources, including videos and other materials that facilitate learning in this new environment. As a result of the pandemic, the role of the CAE community is more important than ever. Cyber attacks have increased, as hackers are exploiting the new vulnerabilities posed by the massive migration to work-from-home across all industries.

The University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC) is developing a robust graduate degree program in Cyber Operations (CO). The program was designed from the beginning to ultimately obtain an NSA/DHS CAE-CO designation. With this in mind, the subject matter experts and curriculum designers focused on the required knowledge units and built in the artifacts to meet other CAE criterion like explicit focus on CO, integration of CO into the foundational courses, and content currency.

The first CAE National Competition will be held throughout the 2021-2022 academic year and is designed to increase student and faculty engagement with competitions throughout the CAE program. The competition is oriented towards students who are new to cybersecurity competitions, and will include an extensive training and practice environment, regional competitions, and the National Finals to be held at the 2022 CAE Executive Leadership Forum.