Workshop and Meetings
The WG Received national Science Foundation funding in 2015 and 2016 to hold workshops for women and minority students. The working group hosts workshops for women and minorities in cyber security. The goal of these workshops is to contribute towards increasing the number of qualified cyber security workers produced by community colleges and four year institutions by targeting women and minorities in cyber security.
The participants are women and minorities: students currently enrolled in cyber security programs (including those participating in NSF SFS programs,) undecided majors from community colleges and 4-year institutions as well as graduate IT programs who have declared interest in cyber security, and role models currently working/practicing in cyber security related fields. Student participants are exposed to a wide range of practical aspects of cyber security through selected hands-on exercises. Students get an the opportunity to interact with cyber security role models and to learn about cyber security professions, career paths and jobs, specific skills needed to be competent and the kind of problems the professionals solve on a daily basis.
The workshop provides a great social networking/sharing opportunity for students from different institutions to form career-spanning relationships, thus helping build a community of support for aspiring cyber security professionals.
First Annual Cyber Security Workshop for Women and Minority Students (CISSE 2015)
Second Annual Cyber Security Workshop for Women and Minority Students (National Cyber Summit Conference)
The participants are women and minorities: students currently enrolled in cyber security programs (including those participating in NSF SFS programs,) undecided majors from community colleges and 4-year institutions as well as graduate IT programs who have declared interest in cyber security, and role models currently working/practicing in cyber security related fields. Student participants are exposed to a wide range of practical aspects of cyber security through selected hands-on exercises. Students get an the opportunity to interact with cyber security role models and to learn about cyber security professions, career paths and jobs, specific skills needed to be competent and the kind of problems the professionals solve on a daily basis.
The workshop provides a great social networking/sharing opportunity for students from different institutions to form career-spanning relationships, thus helping build a community of support for aspiring cyber security professionals.
First Annual Cyber Security Workshop for Women and Minority Students (CISSE 2015)
Second Annual Cyber Security Workshop for Women and Minority Students (National Cyber Summit Conference)