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Ready to Impress in Bayou Country!

Get ready for southern charm and loads of workshops and fun at the sixth annual Community College Cyber Summit (3CS) hosted at Bossier Parish Community College in Bossier City, Louisiana, July 30 to Aug. 1. This year’s event features Cybersecurity Skills Development Workshops, over 95 presentations and panel discussions, a Job Fair and Career Exploration and two events catered to girls: IBM CyberDay4Girls and Girl Scout Cyber Badge. Participants can earn Digital Badges as well. Along with impressive keynote speakers, participants have several opportunities to discover Shreveport and Bayou country.

Learn more HERE .

Influence Cybersecurity Education

The National CyberWatch Curriculum Standards Panel needs volunteers. Make an impact, earn continuing professional education credits, earn attribution on open source content and assessments, and reap awards and recognition. The Panel was established in 2016 to identify objectives, concepts, procedures, situational judgments and intellective abilities required to develop capability maturity in cybersecurity foundational principles, techniques, tactics and protocols. Volunteers are needed to keep this work going to train future cybersecurity professionals. Only one hour per week for one year is necessary, and all work can be done online.

For more information, visit HERE .

Cybersecurity Skills Journal (CSJ)

Do you have the desire and time to help develop and enhance a growing community of scholars seeking to advance the science of cybersecurity? Are you interested in receiving a fellowship for publishing your research in the leading journal for the development of cybersecurity skills? Would you like to learn how peer reviews can become effective and a constructive means to assist an author in progressing their research idea, outline, presentation or draft manuscript toward an aca demic journal quality publication? If you answered YES, this recorded session is for you!

View the workshop HERE .

Accounting and Cryptocurrencies

Cybersecurity Across the Curricula is designed to help schools promote and integrate interdisciplinary cybersecurity learning modules. We will highlight a topic mapped to an existing course taught at most two- and four-year institutions with links to download additional resources. This month's installment is Accounting and Cryptocurrencies. Check it out

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Women Leaders in Equifax Security: Diverse Perspectives

Join the Women in Cybersecurity (WiCyS) webinar August 15th and hear from several Equifax women leaders who came to security from various educational backgrounds, careers and interests, but who share a passion for challenging work, career growth and personal excellence. Learn about their career journeys, how they apply their interests and training to their current work and future professional goals, and hear advice for the next generation of women in security. Bring your questions, too, for a lively, interactive discussion!

Cybersecurity Curricular Guidance

The Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Committee for Computing Education in Community Colleges (CCECC) is pleased to report that the second draft of CSEC2Y, Cybersecurity Curricular Guidance for Associate Degree Programs, IronDog, is available for public review and comment. In addition to incorporating feedback from StrawDog, the major update in IronDog is the addition of competencies for each knowledge area. The comment period will close Aug. 15. Input is welcome. Please share this with anyone in your networks who can provide input.

IronDog Draft is HERE .

IronDog Feedback Survey is HERE .

How Female Friendly is Your Program?

Gauge how female friendly your college's STEM and CTE programs are by taking a free WomenTech Gender Equity Self-Assessment. In only 20 minutes, you can simply assess your school's readiness to recruit and retain women in STEM/CTE career pathways. Within the results, your school will get a “grade” and printout to see how it compares to existing women in STEM recruitment and retention best practices. This is the first step to identify that your STEM/CTE program is headed in the right direction to achieve more female participation and retention.

Take the WomenTech Gender Equity Self-Assessment HERE .

Get Your Students Involved

Get gamified! Hone in on your summertime cybersecurity skills, earn CEUs/CPEs, pursue a NICE-aligned digital badge and more through Project Ares – Academy. Membership is $125 for two months (or $62.50 for one-month access) and only for National Cybersecurity Student Association members.

Read more HERE .

Get #cybersec Ready!

Coaches (a.k.a. faculty), get your students ready for the NCL Fall Season! Join Kaitlyn Bestenheider (@CryptoKait on Twitter), NCL’s chief player ambassador, every Tuesday from Aug. 6 to Nov. 26, as she prepares you to compete. She will walk you through resources to achieve top results at NCL. She also will drop tips on blog posts, emails and social media. NCL will keep you up to speed and provide the tools you need for success.

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