Cybersecurity:Education and Career

Opportunities

2015 PCAP Cybersecurity Student Workshop

Andreea Cotoranu - March 27, 2015

About Cybersecurity

• Background

• Cyberspace

• transformed the daily lives of people;

• is critical to national priorities in all sectors including commerce, financial services, healthcare, education, energy, defense, etc.;

• Problem Examples

• Privacy of personally identifiable information is often violated on a massive scale by persons unknown;

• Intellectual property is stolen;

• Law enforcement cannot always respond effectively to cybercrime

• due to national boundaries and uncertain legal and ethical frameworks;

• Proposed Solution

• Professionals that understand the problem and design solutions;

• Citizens that contribute to making the Internet a safer and secure place;

• Cybersecurity research and education;

Cybersecurity Workforce• Demand

• Demand is growing at three and a half times the pace of the overall IT job market;

• Jobs as network systems and Information security professionals are expected to grow by 53% in the next four years; (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)

• There were an estimated 1 million unfilled cybersecurity jobs globally in 2014; (Cisco cybersecurity report)

• Qualifications

• Four out of five cybersecurity jobs require a college degree;

• Problem-solving, and experience with a range of computer systems, networks, and security tools;

• Verbal and written communication, management and leadership, flexibility, multi-tasking, dependability, integrity, and decision-making;

• Salary

• Cybersecurity professionals report an annual average salary of $116,000, or approximately $55.77/hour; (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)

• Just out of college? The average salary starts at $88,000+!

Cybersecurity Workforce: Framework

• Specialty Areas• Conceptualizing, designing, and building secure IT systems;

• Supporting, administering, and maintaining IT system performance and security;

• Identifying, analyzing, and mitigating threats to internal IT systems and networks;

• Investigating cyber events and/or crimes of IT systems, networks, and digital evidence;

• Operating and collecting cybersecurity information that may be used to develop intelligence;

• Analyzing cybersecurity information to determine its usefulness for intelligence;

• Providing support so that others may effectively conduct their cybersecurity work.

• NICE Framework• http://niccs.us-cert.gov/training/tc/framework

Cybersecurity Workforce: Job Titles• Examples

• Risk and Vulnerability Analyst

• Auditor

• Business Process Analyst

• Database Administrator/Developer

• Information Resources Manager

• Security Analyst

• Intrusion Analyst

• Ethical Hacker

• Computer/Network Defense Analyst (cryptologic)

• Computer Crime Investigator

• Special Agent

• Digital Forensic Examiner

• Top 20 Cool InfoSec & Cybersecurity Jobs

• http://www.sans.org/20coolestcareers/

Cybersecurity Workforce: Job Placement*• Full-Time Employers

• National Security Agency

• Central Intelligence Agency

• Federal Bureau of Investigation

• Defense Information Systems Agency

• Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command

• Manhattan District Attorney’s Office

• Johns Hopkins - Applied Physics Lab

• Internship Employers

• Department of Homeland Security

• Department of Transportation

• Department of Justice

• Lockheed Martin

• Booz Allen Hamilton

• Dow Jones and Company

• Metropolitan Transportation Authority

*Seidenberg Job Placement Examples 2011-14

Cybersecurity: Get a Degree• BA Computer Science• BS Computer Science

• Information Assurance Minor

• BS Information Technology• Cybersecurity Focus

• MS Computer Science• Network Security Concentration • Web Security Concentration

• MS Information Systems• MS Internet Technology

• Security and Information Assurance Concentration

• PhD Computer Science• Doctor of Professional Studies in Computing

• Security Research Focus

Pace University Programs and Application Information:http://www.pace.edu/seidenberg/seidenberg-programs

Cybersecurity: Cybersecurity Scholarships

• CyberCorps®: Scholarship for Service

For detailed information and to apply: http://seidenberg.pace.edu/sfs

Cybersecurity: Get Certified

• CompTIA Security +• http://certification.comptia.org/getCertified/certifications/security.aspx

• ISACA Cybersecurity Fundamentals• http://www.isaca.org/cyber/pages/cybersecurity-fundamentals-certificate.aspx

• (ISC)2 Certified Information Systems Security Professional and others…• https://www.isc2.org/credentials/default.aspx

Cybersecurity: Get Experience

• Internships

• Volunteer Work

• White Hat Hacking

• Independent Research/Projects

• Competitions

Cybersecurity: Get Experience

Independent Projects / Research

• 2015 PCAP Summer Research Project

• Web Security

• Biometrics

• Mobile Forensics

Download application from:

https://sites.google.com/site/pcapproject/students

Cybersecurity: Get Experience

Competitions

• U.S. Cyber Challenge

• http://www.uscyberchallenge.org/

• National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition

• http://www.nationalccdc.org/

• CSAW – NYU Poly School of Engineering

• https://csaw.isis.poly.edu/

• https://www.facebook.com/NYUPolyCSAW

Cybersecurity: Get Connected

• Guest Speaker Seminars

• Computer Club

• Other

• Academic and Professional Organizations

• High Technology Crime Investigation Association

• Open Web Application Security Project

• ISACA

• Association for Computing Machinery

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Cybersecurity Conferences: Get Connected

• Shmoocon• https://www.shmoocon.org/

• BlackHat• https://www.blackhat.com/

• Women in Cybersecurity• https://www.csc.tntech.edu/wicys/

• Information Security Conferences of 2015• http://www.concise-courses.com/security/conferences-of-2015/

Questions?

Email: acotoranu@pace.eduOffice: Goldstein Academic Center Room 329

Office Phone: 914-773-3193

Other Resources• Pace University CyberCorps Scholarship for Servicehttp://seidenberg.pace.edu/sfs

• Seidenberg IA Web Sitehttp://seidenberg.pace.edu/ia

• Ars Technicahttp://arstechnica.com/

• CCDC Videohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmNAvpeFOCU

• Def Con Hacking Conferencehttps://www.defcon.org/ also look up DefCon videos on YouTube

• Humorwww.xkcd.co