Lockheed Cyber Tech Talk 4/07 @6pm

Students – Join us on 4/07/22 @6pm for this session with Lockheed Martin.

Lockheed Martin Tech Talk 04_07_22 6pm

Ernst & Young Cybersecurity Session Mar 16th

Ernst and Young will be onsite on Mar 16th at 9:40am in Room 400 (Dr Goel’s Class) for a Cyberecurity career information series. Contact cerc@howard.edu for more info.

Checkout the recommended cyber training/challenge portals

Use this prioritized list of portals to build your skills outside the classroom.

1. TryHackMe 
2. National Cyber League 
3. OvertheWire/Bandit 
4. PicoCTF 
5. Other (e.g. Root Me, HackthisSite, etc.) 

Cover6 Onsite – Feb 24th

Join Tyrone Wilson (Founder Cover6 Solutions) on Feb 24th for a discussion on cybersecurity careers in Rm 400.

What Hands-on Cyber Skills should you develop?

Here is the list of recommended skills with links to webpages with additional resources:

• General IT Skills 
• Open Source Intelligence
• Cryptography
• Log Analysis  
• Scanning     
• Web Exploitation   
• Password Cracking
• Network Traffic Analysis 
• Enumeration & Exploitation
• Wireless Security
• Forensics (new)

SANS HBCU CTF – Feb 25th

Enrollment Link https://ranges.io/my-events:

Apply for NCL HBCU Scholarships by Mar 25th

Apply here: https://nationalcyberleague.org/hbcus

SANS HBCU Academy – Apply by Mar1st

https://www.sans.org/hbcu/

Popular free cybersecurity resources

Here is an excellent curated list of free resources from the SANS :

https://www.sans.org/blog/sans-top-10-most-popular-free-resources/

Apache Log4j patches available

Patches are now available for this widespread open source java Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability discovered in Apache web server systems (CVE 2021-44248) . Zero day’ impacts still need to be mitigated (see link).