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NCAE Cyber Games - Annual collegiate competition for first timers
Learn how to attack and defend systems in this one-of-a-kind collegiate event. Register at NCAE Cyber games with your .edu addresses and get started with putting together a team!

Advent of Cyber 2023 - Cyber in 24 days!
Compete with fellow Touro students in this advent calendar event with security challenges instead of chocolates. Gift cards await for the best writeups!

HackTheBox University CTF - Brains and Bytes December 2023
Join the Touro team in this beginner-friendly Capture the flag event!

Happening Now

JerseyCTF is around the corner. Sharpen your Linux, web-hacking and pentesting skills with JerseyCTF resources. This Capture the Flag competition is tailor made for first timers and prepares you with adequate training and resources for Linux, web application security, penetration testing and more. Register now. The event takes place on March 23, 2024.

HackSharks 2.0 is a creative problem-solving hackathon with skill-enhancing workshops.

Organized by the Indian Institute of Technology, this hackathon is open to all and promises to deliver an opportunity to collaborate with students all over the globe while providing you with the platform to test your skills against them. The deadline to turn in your submission for the event is March 20, 2024.

Zero to One by Convex is a hackathon designed for the modern developer.
With backend development abstracted away using Convex’s thoughtfully designed solution, developers can hone their frontend development skills to build new applications or clone old ones and explore their startup idea! The deadline to turn in your submission for the event is March 18, 2024.

PartyRock Generative A.I. is a challenge to build functional applications with prompt engineering and foundational models.

Powered by AWS, this hackathon allows participants to experiment with prompts and use Amazon’s Bedrock Playground – PartyRock to explore their potential in the space. The deadline to turn in your submission for the event is March 11, 2024.

LIVE AI 1 Ideathon by Duke University is an online pitch competition in the areas of AI, blockchain, web3 and financial technology.

This ideathon focusses on ideation over product development and will be full of tech talks, networking opportunities and workshops for all.

The deadline to turn in your submission for the event is March 3, 2024.

In the CAE Community

Stay tuned for Prof. Satch Hegde’s Pentest workshop with the CAE Community!

Register to attend the new series of workshops related to hands-on learning in order to increase quality and address the needs for students in today’s learning environment. The Committee members for the initiative develop monthly workshops to support the exploration and application of tools and resources to strengthen cybersecurity offerings at CAE institutions.

Workshops

Friday 17 May, 2024 - Intro to Cybersecurity
Join Michael Franz and Anthony Pinto as they talk about the introductory concepts of cybersecurity in this workshop. Please register through the CAE Community link provided.

TBD, possibly 17 or 18 April, 2024 - Forensics (in person at the CAE Community Meeting)
Join Michel Tu and Luis A. Tatis Morales as they cover digital forensics concepts in this beginner-friendly workshop. Please register through the CAE Community link provided.

Friday - 22 Mar, 2024 – Pentesting (Touro Faculty presenter)
Join Nahla al Hamad and Satch Hegde as they cover the essentials and basics of penetration testing and ethical hacking in this workshop. Please register through the CAE Community link provided.

Friday - 8 Mar, 2024 - LINUX
Join Litany Lineberry and Pam Schmelz breakdown the basics of Linux, file systems, commands and tools for cybersecurity and networking in this workshop. Please register through the CAE Community link provided.

Friday - 16 Feb, 2024 – Networking
Watch the recorded session where Terri Johnson-Akse, Carmela Gonzales and Kevin Lann-Teubner dissect Network fundamentals and cover the tools for aiding classroom instruction.

Learn about the critical sectors impacted at CyAD 2024!

Cybersecurity touches all disciplines and every one of us. Learning of the intersections between critical infrastructure, technology and cybersecurity requires first a broader understanding of the disciplines and secondly a deep understanding of the dynamics where they intersect with cyber.

The Cybersecurity Across Disciplines is a conference that is a first of its kind and explores these topics in the form of specialized workshops within the fields of automotive systems, healthcare, business operations and industrial control systems.

The event is intended for technical college faculty from cyber and technology fields in the domains of Aerospace, Automotive, Marine and Geospatial Technologies as well as Business Healthcare and associated autonomous technologies.

The CyAD Conference: Cybersecurity Across Disciplines will be held at Moraine Valley Community College in Palos Hills on June 12-13, 2024.

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