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Just Two Weeks Away!
National Cybersecurity Career Awareness Week
November 9-14, 2020
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We are counting down the days before the launch of National Cybersecurity Career Awareness Week.
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PARTICIPATE IN SPECIAL EVENT
Participate in an event near you, online, or make a commitment to supporting in your own way!
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GET INSPIRED
Need ideas? Visit our website to learn more about key messaging and see what others are putting together this year or examples from previous years. Check out our toolkit and social media resources to help promote awareness about careers in cybersecurity.
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National Cybersecurity Career Awareness Week, brought to you by the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE), is a week-long campaign to call attention to the contributions to society and innovations introduced by cybersecurity practitioners.
Here are a few of the special events that have been developed with NICE just for National Cybersecurity Career Awareness Week to help advocate for pursuing a career in cybersecurity. All events are free and open to the public; however, registration may be required.
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Entries close November 12, 2020
Calling all high school and college students!
Construct and submit a poster to inspire and promote exciting careers in cybersecurity. The goal of the poster contest is to engage young people in learning more about careers in cybersecurity through the creation of posters that will encourage peers to explore, discover, and pursue a career in cybersecurity.
CyberUp has partnered with NICE and Mastercard to host a high school through college “Careers in Cybersecurity” poster contest. The partners believe that young people know best how to craft messages and the images that will resonate with their peers.
Join in the fun. Help demystify the multiple work roles in cybersecurity and you could win a cash prize!
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November 10, 2020 | 5:00 – 6:30 pm EST
Join Grand Canyon University’s team of cybersecurity experts for an exciting and engaging educator workshop. Learn the technical lingo associated with cybersecurity while participating in hands-on activities that will encourage you and your students to know what to watch out for regarding security measures in virtual environments. From phishing, smishing, to network forensics, participants will leave equipped with the knowledge to protect educators and students from common cybersecurity issues and explore the multiple career options in this exciting field.
Learn More and Register
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Starting November 9, 2020 – K12 teachers invited to introduce their students to cybersecurity concepts and careers through Mission Challenges.
To help teachers and students observe National Cybersecurity Career Awareness Week, LearningBlade has teamed up with Comic-BEE to provide K12 teachers additional ways to introduce their students to cybersecurity concepts and careers. The LearningBlade system is built in the concept of "missions." These missions allow students to explore and think about how people interact with technology and different types of information, data analytics of information, and how important it is to protect data.
Comic-BEE is offering a unique way to further extend the Mission Challenges –allowing students to create web comics that explore core aspects of a Mission Challenge, specific cybersecurity concerns related to a Mission, or cybersecurity work roles that could be involved in a Mission.
Access LearningBlade and Comic-BEE
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November 9 - 13, 2020
Teams of students will take on the role of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agents as they investigate realistic scenarios related to cybersecurity with potential national ramifications. The agents will analyze briefings filled with documents related to the event and sift through to find what is pertinent to the questions of who did it, how they did it, and why they did it. The students will have to think critically about the information they read, work cooperatively as a team to accurately find a solution, and effectively communicate their findings to their supervisor(s) while also giving a suggested next step for the DHS to take.
Each day during the week of November 9 at 7 pm Eastern (4 pm Pacific), facilitators from CYBER.ORG will be live online to release the next briefing packet of information that investigators will need to research the mystery.
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November 13, 2020 | 12:00-1:00pm EST
Join us for a virtual tour of the 3D immersive competition environment and then participate in a cyberspace challenge mapped to NICE Framework knowledge statement of "Knowledge of encryption algorithms, stenography, and other forms of data concealment."
Additionally, students will be introduced to the Interplanetary Internet and the convergence of space and cybersecurity.
Register
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November 9-14, 2020
Take out your digital devices and join others in sharing your short videos, pictures, or stories on social media about what you love most about #mycyberjob. Throughout the week we are challenging those who work in cybersecurity to reflect on their own workforce experiences. Help spread cybersecurity career awareness by participating in our #mycyberjob challenge. Share at least one reason you love your job in cybersecurity each day of the week between November 9-14th. We can’t wait to see your posts! Make sure to include the hashtag: #mycyberjob.
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INFORMATION AND UPDATES
 Help make National Cybersecurity Career Awareness Week a success! Visit our website to see what tools and resources you can use to help promote the week-long effort to your connection.
For more information, visit nist.gov/nice/nccaw.
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@nistcyber
#mycyberjob
#cybercareerweek
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linkedin.com/company/nist-nice
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