NSU CIPhER Outreach - Cybersecurity Awareness Month Activities @ NSU

Proud Champion of the National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM) during October.

Cybersecurity Awareness Month @ NSU

October is the National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM) sponsored by DHS. The College of Computing and Engineering (CCE) at Nova Southeastern University (NSU) is serving as Champion of the National Cyber-Security Alliance, a Washington DC-based organization funded by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and recognized by NSA and its federal partners as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity (NCAE-C) in Cyber Defense (CD). Since October 2013, we have been conducting a wonderful annual outreach program called "Cybersecurity Day @ NSU" to promote awareness about some do's and don'ts, related to cybersecurity, as well as promote interest in cybersecurity careers at our Davie campus. This event was set in collaboration between NSU, federal law enforcement agencies, industry, Miami-Dade Public Schools, Broward County Public Schools, and NSU's USchool. To learn more about our annual "Cybersecurity Day @ NSU" event, see below. Since 2019, our outreach activities moved to include presentations during the month of October at high schools around South Florida as well as invited cybersecurity professionals on-campus to inspire undergraduate students to pursue cybersecurity careers.

The 2023 Cybersecurity Awareness Month Activities @ NSU

During October 2023, we conducted several in-person and online sessions that included presentations, cybersecurity career discussions, and hands-on games (see below) at several high schools in South Florida including schools from Broward County Public Schools (BCPS) and NSU University School, such as:

Atlantic Technical High School
Cypress Bay High School
Ft. Lauderdale High School
Coconut Creek High School
Coconut Middle School
Nova High School
NSU University School
Walter Young Middle School

The in-class sessions this year were provided by students from NSU's College of Computing and Engineering who are members of the NSU Student-Led Cybersecurity Club - known as NSU_eHACKERs members.

- Thank you to our student volunteers who have presented and/or helped coordinate these events:

Rejoice Kumah
Karina Gilson
Marina Glik
Kadiya Tilak
Bhavya Shah

- Some links to cybersecurity games and activities:

     * Google Inerland
     * Kaspersky's Password Check
     * Phishing IQ test
     * PBS's NOVALabs's Cybersecurity Lab Game
* CISA's Try Cyber - Cyber Work Role Discovery and Exploration Micro-Challenges

- Links to some cybersecurity videos:
     * Cyber Threat - Social Engineering - Vishing
     * Cyber Threat - Free WiFi attack - hack to mobile devices
     * FBI - Protected Voices

Some pictures from the events:

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The 2022 Cybersecurity Awareness Month Activities @ NSU

During October 2022, we conducted several in-person sessions that included presentations, cybersecurity career discussions, and hands-on games (see below) at several high schools in South Florida including schools from Broward County Public Schools (BCPS) such as:

Charles W. Flanagan High School
Pioneer Middle School
Tequesta Trace Middle School
Ramblewood Middle School
Cooper City High School
Western High School
Crystal Lake Middle School

The in-class sessions this year were provided by students from NSU's College of Computing and Engineering who are members of the NSU Student-Led Cybersecurity Club - known as NSU_eHACKERs members.

- Thank you to our student volunteers who have presented and/or helped coordinate these events:

Felix Abraham
Diana Dancea
Triet Do
Rejoice Kumah
Juan Sebastian Rodriguez Baron
Oriana Ricci

Some pictures from the events:

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Additionally, following a request from Broward County Public Schools (BCPS), we have developed the following flyers to serve as resources for 2022-2023 academic year related to cybersecurity in-class activities and were shared by the district STEM+CS Department with all BCPS schools.

2022 Elementary to Middle Schools Cybersecurity Resources Flyer

2022 Middle to High Schools Cybersecurity Resources Flyer

The 2020 Cybersecurity Awareness Month Activities @ NSU

During October 2020, we conducted several online sessions that included presentations, cybersecurity career discussions, and hands-on games (see below) at several high-schools in South Florida including schools from Miami-Dade County Public Schools (MDCPS) and Broward County Public Schools (BCPS). The live sessions this year were provided by students from NSU's College of Computing and Engineering who are members of the NSU Student-Led Cybersecurity Club - known as NSU_eHACKERs members.

- Thank you to our student volunteers who have presented and/or helped coordinate these events:

Ryan Harch
Gustavo Morales
Steven Gamatan
Manuel Diaz
Nicolas Brugger
Sahana Nanaiah
Karen Herisse
Yazeed Alqedairi

The 2019 Cybersecurity Awareness Month Activities @ NSU

- Between October 23 and 29, we conducted presentations at several high-schools in Broward County as part of a partnership with the Broward County Public Schools, and an FBI Miami Field Office Special Agent who also joined.

- Click here for pictures from the 2019 high-schools events

***** We would like to thank AGAIN our wonderful 2019 sponsor: 24By7Security for providing the support to help fund this event *****

- Additionally, on October 30, 2019, Rema Deo, HCISPP, CISM Managing Director, 24By7 Security, Inc. provided a TechTalk titled "Cybersecurity Hygienes" for NSU's students.

The 2018 Cybersecurity Day @ NSU (Tuesday - October 16, 2018)

***** We would like to thank AGAIN our wonderful 2018 sponsors: Volico Data Center and 24By7Security who provided the support to help fund this event *****

- 2018 Event Schedule/Flyer

- 2018 Event Pictures

The 2017 Cybersecurity Day @ NSU (Thursday - October 19, 2017)

***** We would like to thank AGAIN our wonderful 2017 sponsors: Volico Enterprise Hosting and 24By7Security who provided the support to help fund this event *****

- 2017 Event Schedule/Flyer

Additionally, from 2016 - 2017, we collaborated with the National Security Agency (NSA) and their partner, LifeJourney, to incorporate the NSA Day of Cyber, which was a free interactive, self-guided, and fully automated cyber education and career awareness experience that runs on the LifeJourney platform within our event (Cybersecurity Day @ NSU). The NSA Day of Cyber was a cloud-based platform that enables students to test-drive cyber careers and live a day in the life of six leading NSA cyber professionals.