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Gearing Up for National Cybersecurity
Career Awareness Week
The Countdown Begins
November 11-16, 2019
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Are you ready for National Cybersecurity Career Awareness Week?
National Cybersecurity Career Awareness Week, brought to you by the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE), is an opportunity for government, business, education, community-based organizations, students, and workers to inspire, educate, and engage citizens to pursue careers in cybersecurity. The week-long campaign provides an opportunity to learn about the contributions and innovations of cybersecurity practitioners, and the plethora of job opportunities that can be found when exploring cybersecurity as a career choice.
We’re asking members of the NICE community to spread the word by using the hashtags #cybercareerweek and #mycyberjob. By doing so you’ll be joining a national movement to elevate and expand the conversation around the positive impact in building the cybersecurity workforce in America.
Here are just a few of the partner resources and activities developed for National Cybersecurity Career Awareness Week to help advocate for pursuing a career in cybersecurity:
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November 12, 2019 10:00 AM PST
To celebrate National Cybersecurity Career Awareness Week in November, Circadence is highlighting the many ways that aspiring cybersecurity practitioners and career changers alike can enter the field with confidence and competency.
The webinar will share tips and recommendations for learning cybersecurity at every stage from basic comprehension to skills application. Speaker Dr. Dan Manson will discuss:
- Current landscape of cybersecurity workforce (from the skills gap to diverse work roles)
- Where to start learning about cybersecurity (resources, tools, experiences)
- How to develop the technical and hands-on skills needed for any cybersecurity job
What You'll Learn
- How to find resources for learning cybersecurity at any knowledge-level
- Where to develop basic and advanced cybersecurity skills using digital and on-demand platforms
- How to develop a holistic cybersecurity skill set to impress prospective employers
Register today at Circadence
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Hats & Ladders helps teens and young adults become more confident and informed about their career choices and supports them along each step of their career exploration journey.
At the heart of the program is a cross-platform app that combines data analytics, social networking tools, and game-based learning to empower youth to learn about their own interests and strengths, gain exposure to a wide variety of in-demand careers, and get connected with and collaborate on real-world experiences that will help them build skills essential for success in life and work.
For National Cybersecurity Career Awareness Week 2019, the Hats & Ladders team has developed five custom lessons--one for each school day of NCCAW 2019. There will be no-cost access to Hats & Ladders for educators and their students for the remainder of 2019 as a demonstration of support for National Cybersecurity Career Awareness Week. Educators can use the lessons along with the app to promote awareness of the jobs and opportunities across the cybersecurity field.
Explore Hats & Ladders
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Comic-BEE is a web-based technology designed to assist cybersecurity educators and subject matter experts, who are neither programmers nor artists, to develop web-based branching, graphic stories that are closely aligned with instructional goals.
Use a comic as a ‘conversation starter’ for your NCCAW activity – learners can read comics individually or in pairs, explore different cybersecurity scenarios and see what happens with different choices, and explore the skills of a cybersecurity practitioner.
Explore at Comic-BEE
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Have your students learn more about cybersecurity careers and the skills used as a cybersecurity practictioner by having them engage with Security Showdown 2, JeffOS, or Packet Protector.
Learn more about the CyberPatriot National Youth Cyber Education Program
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Pockenacci is a very simple block cipher that has been tested amongst 8-18 year-old students. It is built to emulate a Substitution-Permutation Network which is a series of substitutions and permutations that act on plaintext that is controlled by an algorithm that an adversary can see but configured with a key that they can't see. The open-source project (PocketBlock) scales down modern cryptography in a way that's as easy to understand and navigate in a hands-on manner as classical cryptography but teaches the advanced concepts present in modern cryptography.
Pockenacci consists of the following components:
- Fibonacci-addition-style key schedule to expand our key,
- Two P-boxes for permuting columns and rows, and two S-boxes for substituting individual characters
View the full PocketBlock curriculum or a sample lesson with Pockenacci.
Explore PocketBlock
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The CyberHero Adventures: Defenders of the Digital Universe is a groundbreaking comic series that turns complex cybersecurity and tech information into empowering, engaging, and entertaining superhero stories.
Journeys are dedicated to all of the unsung heroes who keep us safe in the digital universe. This comic helps teens and young adults become more confident and informed about their career choices and supports them along each step of their career exploration journey.
The CyberHero Adventures are proud to support National Cybersecurity Career Awareness Week through the new adventure Follow the Money!
Explore The CyberHero Adventures
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Cricket Media® is a global education company creating high-quality print and multi-media products for children, families, mentors, teachers, and partners that improve learning opportunities for everyone. Led by 10 award-winning children’s magazines and a customizable research-tested collaborative learning and eMentoring platform, Cricket Media is committed to creating and supporting innovative learning experiences that help children safely explore and engage with their expanding world.
For National Cybersecurity Career Awareness Week 2019, Cricket Media is providing no-cost access to the MUSE edition HACKED which focuses on cybersecurity.
Just a few of the stories and activities include:
- Alice and Bob are on the case: Protecting your digital privacy
- Be a Hacker…without going to jail
- Think Your Password: Devices that measure brainwaves that make it possible
- I like the way you move: Gait biometrics could help keep the world secure
- Bitcoin: The invisible money in your virtual wallet
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View more about MUSE Magazine or download the MUSE edition HACKED.
Explore Cricket Media
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NICE WEBINAR: Cybersecurity Career Opportunities with the Federal Government
November 13, 2019 at 2-3pm EST
According to CyberSeek.org, there are nearly 20,000 cybersecurity job openings in the public sector. The cybersecurity jobs available in the federal government cover the range of occupations from Cyber Defense to Intelligence to Investigations. During National Cybersecurity Career Awareness Week, we want to expose employers, education and training providers, and learners to the variety of cybersecurity career opportunities available in the United States Federal government workforce. This webinar will identify some of the resources available to help job seekers, secondary school counselors, and collegiate career navigators to discover career opportunities with the federal government and will also be a resource to supervisors, faculty, and other mentors who help guide individuals to pursue careers in cybersecurity.
Register today at nist.gov/nice/webinars.
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@nistcyber
#mycyberjob
#cybercareerweek
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linkedin.com/company/nist-nice
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National Cybersecurity Career Awareness Week is led by the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
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