nation based, militarized
cyber-attacks
Statistics & links to Cybersecurity Urgency...
Attending the national finals showed me how bad the need is for cybersecurity professionals... and how important ICT has become.
This is what got me thinking about a cybersec component in my program:
https://www.wired.com/story/russian-hackers-attack-ukraine/
Canada is responding... https://www.canada.ca/en/department-national-defence/services/caf-jobs/career-options/fields-work/other-specialty-occupations/cyber-operator.html
ICTC didn't need to build a cybersecurity competition from scratch. Instead they became a centre of excellence within the US Air Force Association's international Cyberpatriot competition, which is in its 13th year.
https://www.ictc-ctic.ca/
Who runs CyberTitan? ICTC!
http://uscyberpatriot.org/home
Educational Initiatives
CyberTitan is one of ICTC's latest educational digital initiatives
https://www.cybertitan.ca/
FIT is another good one!
http://www.focusit.ca/
Why participate in Cyberpatriot/CyberTitan?
You can look at this from two sides:
The field of cybersecurity is DESPERATELY UNDERSERVED! You'd be doing your students a big favour by introducing them to a job field that requires human ingenuity to battle human cruelty and greed. No AI is taking this job away any time soon!
If we're going to spend so much of our time learning and being informed & entertained by digital means in a networked world then we have to consider cybersecurity to be a VITAL 21st CENTURY FLUENCY, so every student should learn it...
What we actually need:
- a wide range of hands on skills
- college, university and even trades & military options!
Think You're Not Highly Digitally Skilled? Think Again!
https://temkblog.blogspot.com/2017/12/the-digital-divide-is-deep-and-wide.html
Traditional Cybersec:
- university comp-sci
- post grad, Ph.D.
- theoretical
- not really in demand
To be considered a strong (level 3) computer user you had to be able to "schedule a meeting room in a scheduling application, using information contained in several email messages."
Ever made a shared meeting in Google Calendar after receiving some emails? CONGRATULATIONS! You're an ADVANCED DIGITAL USER!
YOU ARE HERE!
Digital Technology has revolutionized many industries, including education.
Ontario educators have an inherently high level of digital skill (more so if you are involved with ECOO). Digital skills are not about comparing yourself to engineers and ICT professionals, they are about effective use of digital tools, which a high percentage of Ontario educators have mastered.
EdTech is everywhere now, in every subject area. It constantly influences how we teach and learn, yet we do little to raise digital fluency around this critical infrastructure.
https://www.canada.ca/en/department-national-defence/services/caf-jobs/career-options/fields-work/other-specialty-occupations/cyber-operator.html
Digital technologies have given us great power, now we need to systemically teach responsible use.
https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/dnd-mdn/videos/jobs/cyber-operator.mp4
Cybersecurity can feel scary and beyond the scope of a classroom teacher, but it's a critical 21st Century skill we all need to get better at. Many government and industry groups are working hard to help provide you with better cyber-hygiene & security materials.
practice safe digital hygiene and bake it into our curriculum as soon as we begin to use digital tools!
...as a fundamental 21st Century Skill!
My recent cybersec training repeatedly stated that the weakest links in cybersecurity are people!
https://www.cyber.gc.ca/en/guidance/cyber-hygiene
encourage students to think about pathways into the critical infrastructure that drives our world.
Who is presenting? Two of Canada's top Cyberpatriot/CyberTitan coaches!
What 2 things can everyone in Ontario's education system do to help?
Digital hygiene needs to be a reflexive best practice, not an ignored fear or someone else's problem!
education can cure more cybersec failures than any technology!
https://www.dhs.gov/stopthinkconnect
tech enthusiast and early adopter
teacher
visual artist
assistive tech specialist
blogger
doesn't like wearing hats unless they're helmets!
Timothy King
Krista Sarginson
writer
photographer
I.T. Technician
millwright
& mechanic
special education specialist
2nd Place Semifinalists in their rookie year!
...how to get started in the CYBERTITAN
Student National Cybersecurity Competition!
This presentation will show you HOW TO CYBERTITAN! Giving your students an exciting and accessible way to engage in the rapidly expanding world of Cybersecurity!
HOW TO CYBERTITAN:
The (free!) tools
In virtual images teams of students search for exploits in Windows 10 & Server, and in Linux operating systems.
They also build secure networks in Cisco Packet Tracer networking software.
Ontario is woefully under represented in this competition! New Brunswick (population smaller than Burlington) has 20x more teams in it!)
https://cybernb.ca/
Generate positive
PR for your school board...
Other jurisdiction integrate cybersafety from k-12...
What is a virtual machine?
https://www.ugdsb.ca/blog/cwdhs-falcontech-kings-guard-advances-to-cybertitan-iii-national-finals/
https://www.ugdsb.ca/blog/cwdhs-cybertitan-team-heading-to-nationals/
If your PC is powerful enough (and modern PCs all are) it can run operating systems inside of operating systems!!! You can have a Windows 10 PC running Apple OSx in a virtual machine - it will behave like an Apple in all ways, but it's running on Windows like an application!
CyberPatriot gives you
hacked Windows images
to analyze and clean up.
https://www.ugdsb.ca/blog/cwdhs-all-female-team-advances-to-canadian-cybersecurity-nationals/
other benefits of participating in CyberTitan?
Face the media!
CyberNB is making great strides in New Brunswick...
... and your board IT department will LOVE YOU!
https://cybernb.ca/en/workforce-development/k-12/
TRAVEL!
Encourage our middle and secondary schools to give CyberTitan a go!
What would be the benefits of advancing CyberTitan within our board?
- Raise user awareness around privacy, security and data best practices.
- Offer a high-demand career pathways to interested students.
- Incease up time and reduce wear on the network due to incurssions (even more important in a pandemic/remote learning heavy world)
- Encourage an understanding of our networked systems as critical infrastructure
SWAG!!!
MEET INTERESTING PEOPLE!
Many groups are working on infosec materials for younger learners...
https://www.uscyberpatriot.org/Pages/Announcements/Sarah-the-Cyber-Hero.aspx
St. Leonard, Manotick, ON
2020: Year Three
4 teams of 23 students
Our senior team, had our first 2 time national finalist and our first returning veterans and finished 5th in Canada out of over 230 teams.
National Finals were entirely virtual this year due to COVID19.
Tim's Experience with CyberTitan...
2019: Year Two
3 teams of 18 students
Terabytches finished top female team in Canada & 9th overall out of over 180 teams
Links:
CyberTitan: http://www.cybertitan.ca/
2018: Year One
1 team of 4 students
finished 5th in Canada out of 60 teams
Cyberpatriot: https://www.uscyberpatriot.org/
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/fergus-terabytches-cyber-security-cybertitan-national-1.5081634
Cisco Packet Tracer: https://www.netacad.com/courses/packet-tracer
All three teams finished in the top 40 in Canada, with our Cybears junior team managing a 9th place finish nationally, just missing out on a trip to national finals by one spot! (the top 8 teams, top middle school and top all female team fill out the top 10 going to nationals)
Round 2: Dec 7, 2018
This year's competition: ROUND 1 (Nov 2nd, 2018)
1 Platinum &
2 Gold level finishes!
The State Round is Jan 11th
VMware Virtual Machine: https://www.vmware.com/ca.html
Over six thousand three hundred teams competing from around the world this year in Cyberpatriot
Student engagement in Cyberpatriot...
How'd we do?
Previous Years of CyberTitan @ CWDHS
... isn't a problem!
https://twitter.com/i/status/1058133654055120896
https://twitter.com/search?q=%40cwcomptech%2Bcyberpatriot&src=typd
https://twitter.com/ugdsb/status/1058403570716995585
Round 1 of Cyberpatriot 2019 on Friday, November 2nd
falcontech Cybears finished 11th in Canada!
falcontech Cybeavers finished 35th in Canada
How to get started: https://www.uscyberpatriot.org/competition/Competition-Overview/join-the-competition
falcontech Terabytches finished 40th in Canada
There were 90 Canadian teams in this round of Cyberpatriot
Intermediate & Senior
HOW YOU CAN HELP RESOLVE OUR CYBERSEC DILEMMA IN YOUR CLASSROOM!
It's CyberTitan time!
- Teach students how to identify threats in real world simulations
- Compete in CyberTitan/Cyberpatriot
- Use those skills to spread good digital hygene school wide
- open up career pathways into a desperately underserved field
Elementary
2017-18 Cyberpatriot/CyberTitan
- Teach good digital hygiene from the moment you begin using digital learning tools
- Encourage students to understand how fluid online information can be in a networked world
- Teach students to manage the technology they're being handed safely and effectively
- Mentor the most interested students with CyberTitans in intermediate grades - even grade 6!
- Natural opportunity to observe and develop global competencies
Round 3 (State finals):
So what happened to us? I got 4 volunteers from my senior computer engineering class and made this their ISU. They were responsible for getting ready and self organizing into roles. They were also responsible for DOCUMENTING THEIR PROCESS (we're using it this year!)
Round 2:
Round 1:
"Still a challenge, but we knew what to expect this time and managed our time accordingly"
"Where the hell did that come from?!?"
It ramps up quick! Prep as much as you can each time and learn from each round. Especially focus on team roles and time management - you have to be both efficient AND knowledgeable to survive!
"Well, that was easier than
we thought it would be!"
What you Cover in
NETWORKING
Operating
Systems
https://www.netacad.com/