Program Description:
The Cool Careers in Cybersecurity workshop provides students with the information and skills necessary to navigate the professional pipeline in the vast fields of Cybersecurity and Information Assurance, as well as, other science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. At the workshop, a Cyber Crime Scenario is presented to the students. The attendees are broken up in to small Cyber Security Investigator (CSI) teams of 10 and rotate around different “cyber tables” to gather clues to solve the cyber crime. Each table has a different activity led by a professional in the field. The students use the first part of each rotation to gather a clue through a hands-on activity, and the remainder of the time is used to learn more about the career and how each representative entered the field. Students find out more about the education skills needed, likes and dislikes and salary range. Activities have included: cryptography, assembling a computer, steganography, digital forensics, penetration testing, and cell phone forensics, just to name a few.
