Spring 2024 Fall 2024 Prior Terms

This dissemination workshop will present the activities of the two NSF Scholarship for Service (SFS) CyberCorp sponsored sections of the CSUB REVS-UP summer program. These two sections focus on cybersecurity and cryptography. One of the goals of the grant is to raise awareness of security issues and to encourage high school students to pursue careers in information security.

9:30am	Room is open for early arrivals
10:00-10:15am	Welcome remarks and Introductions
10:15-11:00am	Discussion with returning attendees from 2014 workshop
11:00-Noon	Materials from REVS-UP sections
Noon-1:00pm	Working lunch: Break into small groups to discuss materials REVS-UP survey results poster on display
1:00-1:45pm	Report back from groups and Discuss results from REVS-UP surveys
1:45-2:45pm	Future directions for K-12 cybersecurity activities
2:45-3:00pm	Attendee surveys and turn in completed stipend paperwork

Registered attendees will be emailed a parking code that can be used at any CSUB parking kiosk to dispense a one-day parking permit. If you have any issues with redeeming your parking code, please contact Erika Moreno at (661) 654-3082.

ADVISORY: There is a large Teacher's Summit occuring on the north side of campus on Friday July 31, 2015. We recommend that attendees park on the south side of campus in either Lot H or I to avoid the traffic associated with the other event. These parking lots can be accessed from the Camino Media entrance to the campus. (Campus Map)

General Cybersecurity Section

• Lecture Notes
• Social Engineering Presentations
• Password Security Activities and Worksheets
• Digital Forensics Activities and Worksheets

Cryptography Section

• Worksheets
• Lab Modules

Cryptography section posters:

• Elliptic Enigma
• Fact-or Fiction
• Zero Knowledge, We Know Everything

General cybersecurity section posters:

• Crack Me if You Can: Using GPU Machines to Crack Passwords
• Defense Against Human Hacking

Cryptography section posters:

• Bitcoin and the SHA-256 Hashing Function
• Integer Factorization Problem: An Attack on the RSA Public-Key Encryption Scheme

General cybersecurity section posters:

• How Secure is your Password? GPU Password Cracking
• Social Engineering: Hacking the Human Element
• Network Scanning

There are several cybersecurity activities that K-12 teachers and students can become involved in. The following are some of the more popular activities:

• CyberPatriot - Middle school through High school national competitions
• MITRE Cyber Academy - High school and Undergraduate national competition
• picoCTF - 2014 competion, challenges and games still online
• Gen Cyber - Cybersecurity camps for K-12 students and teachers
• US Cyber Challenge - Runs competitions and camps on annual basis

The following are some videos on CyberPatriot:

• CyberPatriot: America's Biggest High School Cyber Game (2 minutes)
• CyberPatriot--Have YOU Got What It Takes? (5 minutes, WARNING: Loud Audio so turn down speaker volume)
• Something Like A Sport (10 minutes)
• CyberFed Show Episode 9 at the 2015 CyberPatriot Finals (9 minutes)

• Cybersecurity Careers - Information on job projections, starting salary, median salary, and so on for cybersecurity careers
• Information Security concentration in Computer Science @ CSUB