Cybersecurity Camp 2024
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Free Cybersecurity Camps
SEMtech, upholding its commitment to enhancing cybersecurity education and awareness,
offers free cybersecurity camps during the summer months. These camps, designed for students
of various ages, provide an engaging and educational environment where participants can learn about cybersecurity fundamentals, digital safety, and the ethical implications of technology use.
By making these camps free and accessible, SEMtech ensures that a diverse range of students,
including those from underrepresented communities, have the opportunity to develop critical
skills in a rapidly evolving digital world. This initiative aligns with SEMtech's broader mission to
bridge the technology education gap. It fosters a future generation of tech-savvy and security-conscious individuals, crucial for advancing a safe and inclusive digital society. The
camps are designed for students in middle and high schools.
All camps are 5-day, 20-hour sessions (20 hours of material taught over five days) and will be conducted Monday through Friday during one of the available camp weeks.
Dates for 2025 Summer Cybersecurity Camps will be posted in December 2024.
Here is what they will learn:
Two levels of camps - Standard & Advanced
STANDARD CAMPS
Standard camps are designed to teach beginner students the basics of cybersecurity. No prior cybersecurity knowledge is required for participants. The following is an outline of the curriculum for the Standard CyberCamp.
Monday: Introduction to the CyberPatriot National Youth Cyber Defense Competition, introduction to cybersecurity & careers, cyber ethics, online safety, how computers work, virtual machines, and cyber threats .
Tuesday: Cybersecurity principles, basic Windows security policies and tools, account management, windows file protections, and auditing and monitoring. Students will follow along and work with the Windows 10 demonstration image.
Wednesday: Introduction to Linux, Ubuntu 18 terminology and concepts, basic GUI security, and intro to CLI. Students will follow along and work with the Ubuntu 18 demonstration image.
Thursday: Basic command line security and intermediate Ubuntu security. Students will follow along and work with the Ubuntu 18 demonstration image.
Friday - CyberPatriot competition day. Students will compete against their fellow campers on Windows 10 and Ubuntu 18 competition images.
ADVANCED CAMPS
The Advanced Camp curriculum is designed to allow instructors to pick and choose which areas of interests their students might best learn from. There is more information made available than will fit in a four-hour camp day -- instructors have the option to pick the topics which are best suited for their session. Friday must be reserved for the CyberPatriot competition.
Windows 10 Module -- Windows Graphical Utilities, Windows Command Line, optional Sysinternals Suite.
Ubuntu 18 Module -- Init Systems, Advanced Command Line, Processes and Scheduled Tasks, optional Security Policies and PAM, optional Networking.
Cisco NetAcad -- Networking Modules 1-3.
Sample Schedule :
Monday - Cyber Ethics Module, Windows 10 Module
Tuesday - Windows 10 Module, Ubuntu 18
Wednesday - Ubuntu 18 Module
Thursday - Cisco Networking
Friday - CyberPatriot competition day. Teams of students compete against each other on advanced Windows 10 and Ubuntu 18 images.