Presented at
BSidesDC 2017,
Oct. 7, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
(50 minutes).
In this day and age, there are less opportunities to gain hands on experience in cybersecurity in high school than there is college, and there are less opportunities to gain hands on experience in cybersecurity in college than there is in professional world. As a result, students are at a crossroads to determine how they want to get their hacking fix. Some resort to unethical practices. This is not about them. Some students find themselves in programs like CTF teams, CND teams, and miscellaneous cybersecurity clubs. **This is about identifying these programs and individuals, whether it be to join them as a student, support them as a volunteer, or recruit from them as a professional.** We'll briefly go over programs and competitions, particularly those available in the DC-MD-VA area, such as:
1. CyberPatriot
2. CCDC
3. MDC3
3. PicoCTF
4. Other CTFs
and their **benefits _and shortcomings_** in training the next generation of hackers and how a student of these programs traditionally transitions from a student to a professional in the workforce from the perspective of a student who's done just that.
Presenters:
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Michael Bailey
- Intern at The Crypsis Group
Michael Bailey has always played with with security of things. In high school, he was in hot water for playing with computers just a little too hard, getting things from domain admin to front and back scans of Fairfax County's corporate credit card. Realizing a suspension won't look good on his record, he turned to programs at his school to learn more. He joined Marshall HS's cybersecurity club and ultimately became president. They competed in a variety of competitions, including CyberPatriot, MDC3, and PicoCTF. His coach ultimately hired him in his junior year of high school to work at a Defense firm called "Metier Defense Solutions" at the age of 17. The next year he worked at NanoTech Computers, an IT shop, as their sole technician, due to his mid-summer relocation to Alexandria, VA. Since then he's worked at The Crypsis Group, a Tysons DFIR company, for a year doing Ruby and AWS work to automate the collection and analysis process.
He's currently a sophomore at George Mason University and is president of their CTF club.
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