Know Your Fellow CAEs

PNW K12 Cybersecurity Education Outreach & Engagement Team

Department of Computer Information Technology & Graphics

Purdue University Northwest

https://www.pnw.edu/cybersecurity/

CAE since 2014!

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Building a Cybersecurity K-12 Education

Community in Northwest Indiana

PNW Center for Cybersecurity

Welcome and Introduction

• Welcome to PNW GenCyber Pre-Camps
• Meet the PNW K-12 Cybersecurity Education Outreach team
• Dr. Michael Tu
• Director of Center for Cybersecurity
• Mr. Chuck De Castro
• Instructor
• Ms. Amber Schuler
• Outreach and Engagement Specialist
• Mr. Kyle Riordan
• Technology Specialist
• Dr. David Pratt
• STEM Research and Project Evaluator

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A National Workforce Crisis�(714,548 openings, 1,091,575 filled)

cyberseek.org

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Operate & Maintain

(474,768)

Securely Provision

(443,726)

Oversee & Govern

(329,318)

Protect & Defense

(279,062)

Analyze

(194,017)

Collect, Operate, investigate

(135,313)

One million cybersecurity jobs filled this year

Half Million Cybersecurity Positions Unfilled

There are more than enough

cybersecurity job opportunities

Salary (<5 years of experiences): 75K-95K

A National Challenge of �Workforce Pipeline Shortage

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• Over 700,000 unfilled cybersecurity jobs
• Projected 31% growth Current college production is ~30,000
• It will take a 50% increase of people entering the field every year to get to ~600,000 by 2029
• Branches of cybersecurity work:
• Systems Architecture
• R&D
• Governance and Administration
• Leadership and Policy
• Analytics and Analysis
• Investigation and Forensics

What Can We Do (Workforce Shortage)??

• Create a larger pipeline of students into Cybersecurity Education
• 50% of annual growth (pipeline, students entering to cybersecurity programs)
• Ideally, for example, 220 🡪 330🡪500🡪 750 🡪 1100, etc.
• But how?
• A Collective effort from multiple communities needed
• Higher Education
• K-12 Education
• Other stakeholders
• Students & Families
• State and local government
• Industry and organizations

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K12 Cybersecurity Education �Challenges

• National and State Challenges
• Lack of technology support– Lab and hands-on development
• Lack of cyber infrastructure – Cyber Range such as Netlab+
• Lack of Cybersecurity Curriculum for K12 Education
• Inconsistency of K12 Cybersecurity education policies on CTE, Dual Enrollment
• Transfer to higher education
• What PNW Can Offer
• A National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Education
• Cyber infrastructure and Technology support
• Curriculum Development and Hands-on Activity Development
• Outreach and Engagement with K-12 Community (students, teachers, curriculum integration and offering support)

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National Center of Academic �Excellence in Cybersecurity – NCAE-C

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NSA and DHS have partnered

with other government agencies managed by the National

Centers of Academic Excellence in

Cybersecurity (NCAE-C) a community of high education institutions that host designated cybersecurity education programs

• about 400 institutions
• PNW is one of them
• Has CAE-CD, CAE-R, CAE-CO
• Including both 2-year, 4-year,

and graduate programs

Range and Range Access

• PNW NDG NetLab+
• Expected in Summer 2022
• 196 Pods
• Support 200 students
• Management
• Technology Specialist
• Support K12 schools
• Provide technical support

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The NCAE-C RING Project for �K12 Cybersecurity Curriculum

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• A NCAE-C Effort
• A ready-to-use curriculum
• PNW team develops 8 web based educational games
• Can play in web browsers

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Cybersecurity Curriculum Development

For K12 Education at PNW

Cybersecurity Efforts for K12 �Cybersecurity Education at PNW

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Our Next Step

• Outreach & Engagement
• PNW established a list of partner schools for CTE/dual credit enrollment implementation, for cybersecurity
• A pathway to B.S in Cybersecurity or B. S. Computer Information Technology
• Select a few target schools
• Who are interested?
• Ring Implementation-Cybersecurity
• CTE/Dual credits
• NLPS (concentration A, B)
• Resources
• Ring: K-12 Pathway Program: RING | CAE Community
• PNW ITS199
• https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1JW1Fw7fhoHc0gaQCgCwBoV7bzdu1Ig1f?usp=sharing

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Q&A

• How can we make this work?
• How PNW can help?

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3 Day Teacher Summer Camp

• 3-Day Camp: July 25-27^th (27-29)
• In-person on July 25-26^th
• Virtual on July 27^th – July 29
• Or provide a recorded video
• Stipend
• $300 each for Day 1 and Day 2
• $400 for Day 3 (Presentation)
• Days 1 + 2 skills:
• Linux basics
• Network basics and management
• Beginning forensics
• Integrate Ethical Hacking with teaching
• Day 3
• curriculum + Lab integration & presentations

Interested or want more info? Contact Amber: arschule@pnw.edu

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Demonstration

• PNW Cipher Island Game - https://cipher.pnwcyber.com/
• Teaches the basics of cryptography
• Cellebrite
• Mobile Forensics tool that creates “captures” of mobile devices

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