CyberPatriot Competition
2019: CyberProtex is excited to support the CyberPatriot for the sixth consecutive year! If you are not familiar with the CyberPatriot, (link), it is the National Youth Cyber Defense Competition and has over 2000 teams nationwide. CyberProtex has eight teams that we are sponsoring and/or mentoring this year and continue to be impressed with the National Youth Cyber Education Program.
The competition puts teams of high school and middle school students in the position of newly hired IT professionals tasked with managing the network of a small company. In the rounds of competition, teams are given a set of virtual images that represent operating systems and are tasked with finding cybersecurity vulnerabilities within the images and hardening the system while maintaining critical services in a six hour period. Teams compete for the top placement within their state and region, and the top teams in the nation earn all-expenses paid trips to Baltimore, MD for the National Finals Competition where they can earn national recognition and scholarship money.
The competition puts teams of high school and middle school students in the position of newly hired IT professionals tasked with managing the network of a small company. In the rounds of competition, teams are given a set of virtual images that represent operating systems and are tasked with finding cybersecurity vulnerabilities within the images and hardening the system while maintaining critical services in a six hour period. Teams compete for the top placement within their state and region, and the top teams in the nation earn all-expenses paid trips to Baltimore, MD for the National Finals Competition where they can earn national recognition and scholarship money.
CyberPatriot Curriculum
Unit 0: Cyber Ethics
Unit 1: Introduction to CyberPatriot and Cybersecurity
Unit 2: Online Safety
Unit 3: Computer Basics and Virtual Machines
Unit 4: Principles of Cybersecurity
Unit 5: Microsoft Windows Security
Unit 6: Windows File Protections and Monitoring
Unit 7: Introduction to Linux and Ubuntu
Unit 8: Ubuntu Security
Unit 9: Additional Training Topics and Tips
See our Community page for more on our youth outreach and good resources for anti-cyberbullying information.
