GenCyberCoin Wins Innovations in Cybersecurity Education Award
Among the four categories in National CyberWatch Center’s Innovations in Cybersecurity Education award program, only one creative and innovative submission can win. In the Practice category, the winner was Vitaly Ford’s Incentive-Based Platform for Teaching Cryptocurrency, Bug Bounty, Reconnaissance, and More. A GenCyberCoin web platform is used to teach students a number of concepts including bug bounty programs, password management and social engineering.

Read more about this Innovative submission on page 44 of the publication HERE .
Start a Student Chapter!
From now until Nov. 8th at 11:59 p.m. ET, new chapters and chapters in progress can receive 50% off membership. Benefits include gaining access to the chapter portal, Chapter documentation, setting up one on one meetings with Student Association Board members, mentoring/coaching, discounts on events, and much more. You must be a Student Association member to start a chapter and have one advisor and 3 other positions: President, Secretary and Treasurer.

Contact Dr. Ford at chapters@cyberstudents.org to get started.
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.

For more information, visit  HERE .
Using Web Comics for Cybersecurity
In this Virtual Brown Bag Lunch (VBBL), Laurin Buchanan, principal investigator at Secure Decisions, will discuss and demonstrate the use of Comic-BEE, a novel cybersecurity education technology designed to support the rapid creation of interactive, graphic stories (web comics) that align with cybersecurity curricular goals. These web comics can be used for education or evaluation (assessment) of diverse cybersecurity knowledge, skills and abilities. Join this VBBL to explore how graphic storytelling can enable cybersecurity education while also engaging and assessing learners.

Register  HERE .
Cybersecurity Workforce Study
The National Cybersecurity Training and Education Center (NCyTE) and the Center for Systems Security and Information Assurance (CSSIA), with funds from the National Science Foundation, partnered on a study that examines the type of cybersecurity jobs filled by community college graduates and how they align to the NICE frameworks job roles. This study, like many others, addresses the worldwide growing threat of cybercrime and the nation's shortage of cybersecurity professionals. What distinguishes this study from others is specifically focusing on the progress community college cybersecurity programs are making to overcome the worldwide shortage.

Read more HERE .
Growth Opportunity with Student Association
The National Cybersecurity Student Association is seeking a motivated student to become the next Chapter Development Director. This two-year commitment requires no prior experience, but will allow the chosen student to collaborate with others, join the Advisory Board, work with leaders across the country, and lead the nation’s largest cybersecurity student association student chapters.

To apply or for more information, contact Gus at ghinojosa@cyberstudents.org.  
Benefits Abound With Free Membership to the National CyberWatch Center
National CyberWatch Center is encouraging institutions to become academic members for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that it’s free. Other benefits include access to a network of over 900 faculty; the ability to promote events to a national database of more than 10,000 contacts; exclusive access to publications, events, courses and more; and the opportunity to partner with National CyberWatch Center on grants and projects. Join today!

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National CyberWatch Member Earns Innovation Award
Fayetteville Technical Community College (FTCC), a National CyberWatch member, earned the 2019 Academic Innovator of the Year Award by EC-Council, an organization committed to expanding cybersecurity career paths in higher education. FTCC received the award at the 2019 Partner Awards held in Atlanta, Georgia, on Oct. 9. FTCC’s Cyber Defense Education Center is designated a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Two-year Education by the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security.