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July 3rd, 2008 a Board vote indicated that a meeting
schedule would be posted
ICSEC Meetings schedule second
Friday of the Month at 1:30pm locations TBA: September 12th,
October 10th, November 14th, December 12th, and January 9th.
Updates as to locations to follow.
February's meeting will be held
on the monring of the 14th, to pick scholarship
candidates.
International Cyber Security
Education
Board Meeting
Friday April 11th,
2008
Washtenaw Community College
Members Present: JoAnne Terry, Neil Gudsen,
Dan Shoemaker, Tamara Shoemaker
Bill Schanerberger,
Skip Lawver
The Meeting was
called to order.
Dan Shoemaker
announced that he is making a trip to the London South Bank
University May 16th through May 23rd this
summer to validate LSBU's IA curriculum. Dan and Tamara invite
anyone interested in joining them on this trip to contact them for
imformation on travel and lodging arrangements.
Colonel Wesley Martin
is coming in to the University of Detroit, Mercy on the
21st of April to meet with ICSEC partners and to explore
opportunities in Information Assurance and the defense of cyber
warfare. A meeting
notice will go out by email.
Annette Belkin of the
Office of the Director of National Intelligence spoke at the Eastern
Michigan University as a guest of Skip Lawver's. Skip indicated that the ODNI
is looking for 300 forensics experts for Intelligence Analysis. This is a good development
for schools with Computer Forensics programs. The ODNI wants to be
involved with us.
Skip indicated that
on or about Wednesday July 23rd , EMU is hosting a Community College
night at EMU and has extended an invitation to ICSEC business
partners to attend. He
believes that the event will create opportunities to explore the
creation of possible internships with the business partners.
Lansing Community
College is the host site for the first annual Michigan Cyber
Security Summit on June 8, 2008. The event is primarily for state
and local governments.
http://www.govtech.com/events/facilities.php?id=267438
. Dan Lohrman, CISO of
the State of Michigan, and supporter of ICSEC, is promoting this
event.
At the conference,
the State of Michigan will outline its latest efforts on the
prevention of cyber security threats. Presenters will also detail
cyber security initiatives at the federal level. An overview of the latest
cyber security threats and countermeasures will be given, and advice
on how to respond to cyber security incidents will be provided.
CAE awards are being
determined and will be officially announced in June.
CISSE coming up June
2 – 4. Everyone is
encouraged to participate.
Skip Lawver's
programs at Eastern Michigan University are expanding and he is
hiring a new faculty person.
Tamara Shoemaker is
doing much research into Funding opportunities. She has identified many
possible sources through various foundations through the NSF.
Tamara would like for
everyone to work on their short bios and finish putting together
descriptions of their programs, bios of faculty, and also a letter
of recommendation for grants.
Letters of recommendation should be undated.
A discussion was had
about having a career fair.
The University of Detroit Mercy has had several career fairs
in the past and has invited in representatives from the NSA and from
business to talk to students about career and scholarship
opportunities. The
career days have open to students of all schools, and have been well
received by all who participated.
It was determined
that a career fair would again be held in the fall. The second week of November
is being targeted. It
will be after the elections and will likely include day and evening
sessions on one day of the week.
Next Meeting:
May 2 at 1:30 PM.
International Cyber Security Education Board
Meeting, 1:3pm March 14, 2008, Washtenaw Comunity College, Rm
BE106
Present: Dan and Tamara
Shoemaker, Showey Howey, JoAnn Terry, Skip Lawver, Neil Gudsen and
Jennifer Bowden
The Meeting was
called to order
Tamara did the NSF
grant rather than Regis.
This was per NSF Directives
We will need updated
letters of support for future grants from everyone.
CISSE: We will needs to put
together orders for shirts.
Please let Tamara know if you are going. Shirt sizes. CISSE will be June 2d
through 4th In Dallas.
U of D will be
supplying coalition member support.
Tamara has set up
online CISSP Training for $850. Online paypal account. Get cdrom. Online interface. For up to
year. Demonstrations,
training labs, tests.
Individuals must make arrangements to take ISC2. Will cost them $500 this is
a normal fee for training.
The CNSS 4011
national training standard for Information Assurance is mapped with
courses at ICSEC schools.
CISSP is also an important standard. As a coalition, we should
coordinate our certificates.
The coalition could base certificates of completition of our
courses and list students that completed the 4011/CISSP
requirements. We will
have to watch out for a possible security clearance issue with
publishing names of students.
We need a standard
for when to sign off on
the DoD Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation
Process (DIACAP) and on the Federal Information Security Management
Act (FISMA). A committee has been put together for this
purpose: Bill
Schanerberger, Joe Werner, Tamara Shoemaker, Neil Gudsen.
Skip and Neil
Reported on the High School Computer Security Competition. Skip has
contacted a number of Intermediate School Districts to gauge
interest and solicit participation.
Neil met with Terry
Gliedt, and Doug Cox of the University of Michigan and Michael Galea
of WCC and mapped out a workable format for the competition for the
first year. It is their
recommendation that the event be in the nature of a boot camp for
3-4 days with a competition scheduled for the last day of the
camp.
High school teams of
8 individuals or so would attend a general session on the first day
of camp and learn about networking theory, the ISO model, packet
headers, etc.The teams would split into three or four groups. Each group would attend any
one of a number of tracks for training in how to evaluate and harden
specific systems. The event will probably have tracks for: CISCO
Hardware, Microsoft network and file servers, Application security,
and possibly a track on Linux Systems or Web Servers.
The Boot
Camp/Competition will be held after the last day of classes for most
high schools. The
competition might not be in the nature of a full blown cyber defense
exercise involving penetration testing over an extended period, and
it might not involve automated scoring engines. The students will likely be
given fully built systems to work on, but the work of the teams in
identifying vulnerabilities and applying the correct fix or
countermeasure will be assessed by judges against a standard rubric
developed for scoring the competition.
Skip has suggested
that we might be able to award scholarships to individuals or the
winning team.
Invitations to attend
and participate will go out to a large number of schools in a very
wide geographical area.
EMU will likely be
the host site for the competition as it has a convention
center/hotel and conference center that will be convenient for
visiting teams. Long
term, it is expected that the event can be packaged and hosted in
several regions.
Neil obtained the
results of the NSF ATE Grant Proposal he filed in October. The grant proposal included
a request for funding of a centralized workplace learning function
for students. The reviewing committee indicated that it would like
to see more letters from proposed internship hosts. Also it noted that the
function of an ATE grant was generally not to fund internships. It suggested that internship
hosts should be expected to pay intern stipends. The committee did agree,
however, that workplace learning for Information Assurance students
is a worthy goal.
The Grant Proposal
also included a request for funding a position to coordinate the
mapping of courses in ICSEC member schools and to generate a
classification scheme for the purposes of fostering vertical and
horizontal articulation.
This seemed to some reviewers to be a worthwhile idea, but
most questioned whether, given the already existing and established
relationship between ICSEC schools, the position would be
necessary.
Dan Shoemaker
suggested that we might revisit some of the themes of this grant
proposal in a future grant proposal
Dan: Earmark hopefully will be
closed soon.
We'll need special meeting for ICSEC faculty to see what we
can do about this.
Dan indicated that we
have a hard connection to Infragard at the national level. Infragard Looking is looking
for opportunities to partner on national education/corporate
policy.
Member news:
The University of
Toledo is ready to join up with us. Going after CAE and 4011 at same
time.
The Center of
Assurance at UDM is moving to its own space.
Lansing CC is
becoming a CISCO Academy.
It is proposing Forensics program. It has an existing
successful education program with one of the Intermediate School
Districts. Students of the ISD can get a full 20 credits of LCC's
programs.
Lansing CC will be
the site of Security Conference for the State of Michigan. Dan
Lohrman of the State of Michigan Technology and Information Security
offices will be presenting.
Lansing CC has a new
College President.
Lansing may host an
A+ Certification Competition in the near future.
Skip returned from a
recent trip back from New York. He indicated that he has
reached out to ROTC programs and has been very successful in
attracting students to his IA program. Defense Intelligence
Agencies are recruiting. There will be 5000 openings.
OCC has a new
Chancellor. The
chancellor has a strong scientific background. He has worked in forestry in
Canada. He is getting
degree in Computer Science and is originally from Lake Superior
State.
Dan and Tamara
meeting with Valde Garcia on March 27th.
Tamara-- High school
mapping coming.
Meetings Schedule:
Next Meeting Date:
April 11. Then May 2.
International Cyber Security Education Coalition,
General Memebership Meeting, Jan 11, 2008 Washteanaw Community
College, RM SC330, 1:30pm
Members Present:
Virgina Werner, Joseph Werner, Dan and Tamara Shoemaker, JoAnn Terry
via phone, Neil Gudsen, Michael Galea, Antonia Drommi, Bill
Schanerberger and Victoria Bennett
The
Meeting was called to order.
1. A motion was
made to accept the minutes of the meeting of December 14, 2007. The motion was seconded and
approved.
2. Tamara and
Dan gave an update on the NSF Grant Application being worked on by
Regis University. We
will need letters of support by mid March. Tamara has templates that she
will distribute. Students that are awarded scholarships under
this grant will be required to do federal service upon
graduation. Unlike the
IASP DOD scholarships, there is more latitude for participating
schools to pick their own students and for their service to re-paid
from any federal employer. Since the IASP scholarship was
limited to only 22 persons nationwide last year, this will expand
the pool of scholarships available to the ICSEC
membership.
3. Victoria
Bennett inquired as to who was the contact persons for
future Women in computing events. Denise Phiels is the contact
for Women in Computing from Owens.
4.
Scholarship and Grant season is NOW!!! If you
have any ideas for capacity building grants forward them to Tamara
immediately. A brief narrative is due January 30 with the fully
developed grant due the last week of Feb.
We will
review scholarship applicants Feb 9th at Universiy of
Detroit, Mercy, Commerce and Finance Bldg. 10am-noon. The committee interviewing the
students: Tamara Shoemaker, Daniel Shoemaker, Joe
Werner, Antonio Drommi, Skip Lawver and Neil Gudsen.
Coffee and donuts
will be provided, all ICSEC faculty members are welcome to
attend!
Student Applications
can be found at: http://www.defenselink.mil/cio-nii/iasp/schoolsStudentJobs.htm
Tamara, Dan and Skip gave an update on this year's IASP
scholarships.
5. Mike Galea
suggested that ICSEC pursue grants to pay faculty and incentivize
them to go out to high schools. JoAnn and Tamara indicated that
Henry Ford Community College has pursued various successful outreach
activities. JoAnn
stated that HFCC has programs that bring High School Students to the
campus of HFCC for a day to meet with faculty and counselors. Joe Werner indicated that
there might be money available for similar events through Michigan
Works.
6. U of D is
hosting a meeting of CIS Department Chairs from schools in Southeast
Michigan and Morthern Ohio on January 21. All are invited to come.
This sparked a
discussion was had regarding the future of careers in IT related
areas. Mike Galea
indicated that positions for database administrators are growing in
number.
Joe Werner indicated
that IT accounts for 4500 jobs that are anticipated in the Lansing,
Michigan (State Capital) area.
Reports indicate that IT is expected to outpace jobs growth
generally. Bill Schanerberge indicated that there may be
opportunities to interest young students in IT through instruction
in programming and developing computer games. The Computer Gaming industry
is currently larger than entertainment industry. (Bill Schanerberger
teaches courses with the “GarageGames” platform and recommends
instructional materials available for that platform through
Thompson/Cengage.
7. A decision
was made for ICSEC to put together a video for highlighting various
programs of the member schools. Victoria Bennett will
research costs and production details. Dan believes that there will
be money from the Grant for producing the video. [WCC has had videos for its
IA programs produced in the past. For an example see:
http://www.wccnet.edu/flashvideos/index.php?video=computer-security]
8. Skip is
promoting his IA programs to junior ROTC programs.
9. Skip
indicated that High Schools need computer networking labs. Colleges with networking
labs have opportunities to share their labs with High Schools and
concurrently promote advanced college programs in Cyber
Security. In many
instances, dual enrollments should be encouraged with High School
students. Locally,
Ypsilanti High School might be in need of use of labs and equipment
at Washtenaw CC. Joe, Skip,
and Mike indicated that Intermediate School Districts are hosting
CISCO academies. This
will make High School Cyber Defense/IA competitions possible at High
schools. Locally,
Pinckney and Lenawee schools have CISCO programs
Dan indicated that
the NSF would likely be interested in funding the development of
joint High School/College curriculum. He felt that we should
target students in the Junior year of HS. By the senior year of High
School, students have either made decisions on their career and
education options, or participation in joint programs will come too
late to influence decisions on careers and education.
10. Skip Lawver
has prepared a concept paper for the Department of Homeland Security
to start students in IA in High Schools.
11. Skip
Lawver and Neil Gudsen
gave an update on the Cyber Defense Competition. This year's event is being
coordinated directly from CSSIA member institution Moraine Valley
Community College in
Illinois. MVCC
director Erich Spengler has determined that this year's competition
will be hosted by Baker College in Michigan. It is anticipated that MVCC
will move competitions frequently.
A decision was made
to host an ICSEC based competition during the 2008-2009 academic
year and take advantage of resources put together by EMU for hosting
events of this source.
[EMU has computer lab resources dedicated to Cyber Defense
Competitions, and has a Conference/Hotel center that can be used to
provide lodging for judges, technicians and event competitors].
JoAnn Terry suggested
that we plan half a day meetings with college faculty of potential
competitor institutions to tell them about the competition and
encourage participation.
Bill Schanerberger
suggested that the competitions not be limited to network security,
but that we give the competition an Information Assurance
perspective. For
instance, we could have the competition have a Disaster Recovery
inject and other IA related injects.
A Subcommittee for
the Cyber Defense Competition will be formed. We will take an “Olympics”
approach to the competition.
The competition will be inclusive rather than exclusive. Institutions will be able to
participate in events that target the strengths of their
programs. Some schools
may participate in Network Security events. Some schools may participate
in other IA related events.
Joe stated that there should be enough different events that
colleges can select an area that they want to participate in.
JoAnn suggested that
we survey schools to determine the number of and kind of competition
tracks that should be offered.
JoAnn stated that we want to create the opportunity for a lot
of different winners in different categories. This will encourage buy in
to IA programs.....
12. Other
announcements: CISSE
will be held during the first week of June in Dallas.
Participating members may petition UDM for grant
funds to cover the costs of this conference.
We
have brochures approved and ordered. Tamara will mail them out
as soon as they arrive! Please make sure she has a good
snail-mail address for your POC.
Next
Meetings:
None for
February-selecting IA scholarship candidates Saturday Feb 9th 10-12
at UDM
March 14th
a General membership meeting TBA
April 11th
a Board meeting.TBA
General Membership
Meeting May 2d. TBA
June General Meeting
to be held at CISSE conference.
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