Critical Infrastructure training based on the current threat environment is at a high level throughout the nation and worldwide. A concerted effort by multiple professors, professional cybersecurity personnel, students and staff, a workshop has been developed based that provides training on current topics using in some cases actual examples of security incidents, demonstrations such as pen-testing and necessary remediation steps and methodologies.

The Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) set of standards is developed by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) to ensure the protection of assets used to operate North America’s Bulk Electric Systems (BES). Any entity that owns or operates any type of BES in the United States and Canada must be compliant with the requirements of the NERC-CIP Standards.

As the capability to detect network intrusion has increased, so has attackers’ ability to avoid detection. Commonly, attackers use Secure Shell (SSH) to hide their identity. SSH securely connects two hosts together and encrypts their interactions.

How do you ensure your CAE outcomes are consistently addressed from class section to class section? This workshop will provide some best practices to ensure student assessment and KU content is addressed in every section.

The need for cybersecurity workers is clear. With a documented current shortage of cybersecurity workers in the U.S. identified as over 300,000 openings, the need to attract, and retain more future cybersecurity workers could not be more clear. Many efforts have been created to address this need and have had clear positive results.

This presentation will review the development of a week-course for high school students. The course is designed to introduce students to the exciting science of Cybersecurity using an experiential gamification approach to learning Computer Science, with an emphasis on application and teamwork. The course includes practice using current Cybersecurity industry tools and technologies, development of cyber detective skills, and academic team competition. The course is offered during the Honors Summer Academy on the Oklahoma Christian University campus.

In this presentation Chris Simpson will discuss National University’s mapping of low cost and open source labs to the NICE Workforce Framework and course learning outcomes using the online database Airtable. He will also provide updates on some new free and low cost lab environments that might be of interest to the CAE community.

No matter how stressful the thought of an interview may be for you, there is an easy answer. Each person has a collection of responses that can be used to solve almost every question, and the best part is that there is no wrong answer! The answer that the interviewer is looking for is your personal story. It is a collection of events that shaped you as an individual and will ultimately be the deciding factor in your success in the role and within the company. Each of you has been on a project, worked on a team, failed, and succeeded.

The UAH Cyber Force Incubator (CFI) is a cybersecurity workforce development program which recruits students from UAH, partner colleges and universities, and some Alabama high schools. CFI students are enrolled in an extracurricular cybersecurity and work place behaviors training program. Select students who pass the aforementioned training are nominated for security clearance. Students are hired to work on UAH cybersecurity research and development projects and students are placed into internships at government and industry partner locations.

While the job market for cyber talent has hit record numbers, employers have found it quite difficult to recruit quality individuals to fill the ranks. There are intense efforts to identify and hire employees with related experience, yet with limited success.

Beginning in 2020, a team of 4 higher education institutions established an NSA funded consortium named Cybersecurity Workforce Certification Training initiative or CWCT with the support from N-CAE. CWCT leadership projects by September of 2023 when this round of funding concludes, 1,100 people will be trained.