Employers are citing a significant disconnect between the needs of their organizations and what higher education institutions are turning out in their cybersecurity-related education programs, with only 23 percent believing that college graduates are fully prepared to enter the cybersecurity industry with a certain knowledge set and applicable technical skills.
This fast pitch session will describe how the Information Technology—Networking and Cybersecurity department at Johnson County Community College (JCCC) established a K-12 pathway with a large local district, Blue Valley Schools. The pathway provides students the opportunity to complete the JCCC Cybersecurity Certificate program tuition-free alongside their high school education. Successful students will receive both their diploma and the Cybersecurity Certificate upon graduation from high school. The session will discuss:
Western Governors University (WGU) never had a club until 2020. Our Club went from 0 to 3,500 students in the first year. Currently We have 5,500 in our student club and 2,500 in our Alumni Club. In ten minutes I can provide an overview of how to build a robust club that helps students learn, network and prosper in today’s educational landscape.
Software reverse engineering skills are fundamental to producing a capable cyber security workforce. However, analyzing binaries is often difficult for computer science students and others in related areas due to the curriculum emphasis on efficient software development.
In this Fast Pitch Session, I will share with other CAE institutes how CAE-CD designation has helped The Citadel take Cyber Programs and Activities to the next level. The Citadel started with an undergraduate minor in Cybersecurity in 2012, and became CAE-CD in 2016 with the academic path of BS in Computer Science with a minor in Cybersecurity. The Citadel was the second college in the State of South Carolina with CAE-CD designation. Students from The Citadel Students have been awarded DoD CySP Scholarship every year since 2017.
This presentation outlines how we built the Openstack infrastructure, automated the implementation of student projects, and work with students so they treat the Capstone Projects as real-life jobs. At USD, we found that local businesses were reluctant to allow students the opportunity to evaluate, and implement security on an operational system. We developed the USD Cyber Cloud (a private cloud using OpenStack) to have an isolated sandbox that can be quickly configured to give the student (Student Groups) a fully functional business network system.
This talk will discuss the lessons learned from a project put in place by Nova Southeastern University (NSU), College of Computing and Engineering in collaboration with the Miami-Dade Public Schools (MDCPS) on a dual-enrollment program for high-school students from minority and underserved schools throughout the Miami-Dade district.
In this fast-pitch presentation, we will argue that the cybersecurity curriculum should include fundamental knowledge units such as information theory, game theory, and war game stratagems
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.
