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RSA Threat Hunting Workshop, October 25, 2018: We hosted the workshop to answer cyber threat questions, discussed and demonstrated threat hunting techniques and methodologies through presenting concepts and training exercises working with leading security tools and RSA security consultants.
Future Focus Conference: Sustainable Agriculture, Food Security, Cybersecurity & More: October 10-11, 2018. We invited a group of speakers, opening with the Presidents of our three major Universities, Chaminade University President Lynn Babington, Hawaii Pacific University President John Gotanda and University of Hawaii President David Lassner. They provided their visions for creating an education system supporting our Innovation Economy. They also extended discussions on Cybersecurity in a global economy.
Shakacon on July 11-12, 2018. We facilitated the Shakacon conference following a 2-Day Training Courses:
· A Guided Tour of Embedded Software Hacks by Craig Young
· Threat Hunting in Industrial Control System Environments with Open Source Tools by Dan Gunter and Marc Seitz
· Application Security for Hackers and Developers by Jared DeMott
· Mobile Security Toolkit - Ethical Hacking Workshop by Kevin Cardwell
· Pentesting and Exploiting Highly Secured Enterprise Networks by Vikram Salunke
DHS Corporate Security Symposium, May 9, 2018. We hosted private and public sector colleagues at the Hawaii Corporate Security Symposium at the East-West Center at University of Hawaii. The Symposium is open to personnel in the private sector, state and local government, as well as personnel supporting the homeland security mission. The Hawaii symposium will feature speakers from the Department of Homeland Security, Federal Bureau of Investigation, other U.S. Government entities, state and local agencies, as well as the private sector. Speakers at this day-long event addressed a wide range of homeland security topics including Threats to Critical Infrastructure in Hawaii, Insider Threat, and Cyber Mitigation and Response. The Symposium is jointly facilitated by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Office of Intelligence and Analysis and the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Domestic Security Alliance Council, and CyberHawaii.
Shidler Cybersecurity Seminar, April 10, 2018. The Information and Technology Management Department in the Shidler College of Business hosted Ms. Emily Schechter, Product Manager for Chrome Security, at Google, Inc., to talk about making security usable for the masses. Emily is in charge of usable security for the Google Chrome web browser and is a major force in increasing adoption of HTTPS on the web.
CyberHawaii and Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii, April 5, 2018. We hosted the Cyber Security Panel: Intersection of Physical Security and Cyber Security in the Digital Transformation. We had, Mr. Brian Tuskan, Sr. Director of Security, Microsoft Corporation with 29 years of experience in law enforcement and in the private sector. He was named one of the Most Influential People in Security 2017. He began his career with the Honolulu Police Department and is currently spearheading the Digital Transformation technology development of Microsoft Global Security Operations Center.
Shidler Cybersecurity Seminar, April 3, 2018. We invited Ms. Melanie Ensign, the Head of Security + Privacy Communications at Uber to discuss the issues between the press and Uber security. She is also responsible for working with Uber security engineers to proactively avoid public relations issues.
DHS Cyber Resilience Workshop, March 21, 2018. We hosted this workshop to introduce cyber security stakeholders and practitioners to cyber resilience concepts and to build capability and capacity across key performance areas related to cyber security, IT operations, and business continuity within critical services. Geared toward executive and operations management, the workshop provided attendees with tangible, useful “take-away” information related to risk-based decision-making and security planning for critical IT services underpinning core operations. In the four-hour session participants interacted with peers and subject matter experts, and discussed different process improvement approaches to cyber security.
AT&T Hackathon, March 9-10, 2018. This weekend event is for creative developers, designers, entrepreneurs, and students interested in hacking IoT and entertainment solutions at Sacred Hearts Academy. Experts from AT&T, sponsors, and the local community were on-site to assist with coding. We worked with the Governor's office, the Mayor's office, UH Information and Technology Services (ITS), Pacific Center for Advanced Technology Training (PCATT), AT&T, Sacred Heats Academy, and other UH campuses (such as Leeward Community College, and Honolulu Community College), in order to facilitate this event.
GenCyber CampFIRE CTF, January 3, 2018. We hosted the CampFIRE: a Capture The Flag (CTF) with challenges in Forensics, Incident response, and Reverse Engineering skills. Challenges are based on real-life attacks at UH and day-to-day operational cyber security tasks. This event was open to current high school students with priority given to GenCyber camp attendees. It was held at PCATT on the Honolulu Community College campus. Mentors were on-site to assist and guide participants on the day of the event.
CampFIRE Cyber Security Challenge, December 18, 2017. We worked with CyberHawaii, University of Hawai‘i, and the State of Hawai‘i to host this jeopardy-style, Capture the Flag (CTF) event. This half-day, on-site event was free for security professionals and college students. CampFIRE CTF was primarily focused around incident response and contains challenges that were based on real-life attacks or inspired by day-to-day security tasks. Upon completion of the event, participants will have learned about tools and techniques to deal with actual cyber security threats. Participants of this event mentored high school students at the GenCyber CampFIRE Cyber Security Challenge on Wednesday, January 3, 2018 at Honolulu Community College/PCATT.
We focused on recruiting women and minority students. While scholarships can attract some minority students who might not otherwise consider such a program, they cannot be sustained as the only way to attract culturally and linguistically diverse students to enter and persist in the cybersecurity workforce.We actively pursued intentional mentoring strategies with under-represented students currently enrolled at the University of Hawaii-West Oahu to make certain that they obtained the necessary prerequisites to be eligible to be admitted to a graduate program at UHM. We explored links with culturally specific interest groups on-campus and in the wider-community to attract potential students to apply to the SFS the program. Highlighting the breadth and depth of students currently enrolled may be an asset to building the critical mass of minority students to retain them in pursing CS/IA careers.
Prof. Crosby became a charter member of the new non-profit incarnation of Women in CyberSecurity (WiCYS) in Fall 2018.
Prof Gerald Lau advised our students to participate the Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (CCDC). Overall 10 campuses across the nation including Puerto Rico were included. NSA, SPAWAR, ITS, HCC, KCC, UHWO, Sacred Hearts Academy, Kapolei High School and others were involved.
We participated in outreach events for College and Career Fairs at:
· Moanalua High School
· Leilehua High School
· Kailua High School
· KCC Transfer Fair
· KCC STEM Fair
We also offered outreach face-to-face advising to Leeward Community College and Honolulu Community College.