Each summer the Institute for Security, Technology and Society (ISTS) sponsors a GenCyber program for high school students interested in cybersecurity. The program explores current interdisciplinary research in cybersecurity and privacy.

Non-credit

Residential

Financial Aid

Final project

This summer, the Institute for Security, Technology and Society (ISTS) will convene an advanced cybersecurity program for high school students. This program explores current interdisciplinary research in cybersecurity and privacy. As our nation's critical infrastructure, political processes, and businesses come under cyber-attack, there is an ever-increasing need to educate more students to enable expansion of our cybersecurity workforce.

Program Focus: Understanding system vulnerabilities, defending against cyber-attacks, digital forensics, privacy, and security awareness. Lessons will integrate lectures with interactive activities, augmented with guest speakers.

The advanced program combines lectures with interactive activities, augmented guest speakers. Members of the College's computing services staff will provide a virtual 'behind the scenes' look at security. In keeping with the outreach mission of the ISTS, participants are requested to complete an outreach project of their own design to spread the word about cybersecurity to their school and community.

Topics to be covered during the programs include:

• Ethics discussion (at the beginning and end of the camp)
• Cyber Attack
• Motives and Methods
• Cyber-Defense Basics
• Intro to Linux
• Network Configuration
• Network Protocol Analysis
• Network Protocol Encryption
• Network Traffic Flow Policy
• Intrusion Detection
• System Hardening
• Data Center Security
• System Authentication and Authorization
• Building Blocks of Web Applications
• Web Application Vulnerabilities
• Digital Investigation

Class will meet each morning at 9:00 AM in the Jones Media Center located in Baker-Berry Library. The class will take a lunch break every day from noon to 1:00 PM. Class will resume at 1:00 PM and continue until 3:00 PM.

Advanced GenCyber Program

Jun 26 - Jun 30

1 week

Residential

0 USD

There is no charge for the program.