Cybersecurity and Other High School Initiatives: Implementation and Challenges - Dr. Javaid
The enormous advancement of digital technology and Internet usage has significantly improved our lives but has also threatened our security and privacy. Cyberattacks may have harmful long-term implications for individuals and organizations. High school students are accessible targets for various cybercrimes due to the lack of cybersecurity knowledge and cyber-safe practices. It is important that education about cybersecurity awareness and cyber hygiene practices begin at a young age. Offering cybersecurity knowledge through interactive tutorials and game-based techniques may increase students’ interest in this domain. To develop a security mindset and improve the perception and attitude toward cybersecurity, we created an interactive visualization and practice-based cybersecurity framework for high school students. Through this framework, we attempt to effectively educate students in cybersecurity through animated visualization modules developed in Unity 3D engine, enabling learning of physical, software, and mathematical aspects of cybersecurity. In addition, several other lectures and hands-on activities were developed. Several surveys were conducted to determine whether this framework enhances users' cognitive abilities and improves or develops a security mindset among teenagers. We discuss challenges in such an implementation in a classroom setting, lessons learned, and potential ways of integration into an existing course on computer science or cybersecurity. If time permits, we may also look at another math-oriented high school project that served as a foundation of this project.
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- Date: 19 May 2023
- Time: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
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- Florida Atlantic University
- Boca Raton, Florida
- United States 33431
- Building: EE96 -- Engineering East
- Room Number: 405
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- Co-sponsored by Dept of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and CAREERS - Cyber Florida Grant, Florida Atlantic University
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Dr. Ahmad Javaid of The University of Toledo
Cybersecurity and Other High School Initiatives: Implementation and Challenges
Biography:
Ahmad Y. Javaid received his B.Tech. (Hons.) Degree in Computer Engineering from Aligarh Muslim University, India, in 2008. He then worked for two years as a Scientist Fellow in the Ministry of Science & Technology, Government of India. He received his Ph.D. from The University of Toledo in 2015 and the prestigious University Fellowship Award during the program. He joined the EECS Department as an Assistant Professor in the Fall of 2015 and is the founding director of the Paul A. Hotmer Family Cybersecurity and Teaming Research (CSTAR) lab. Currently, he is an Associate Professor in the same department. He also serves as the Cyber Education and Cyber Threat Mitigation Faculty Fellow within the Division of Technology & Advanced Solutions (DTAS) at the University of Toledo (since 2018). His research expertise is in the cybersecurity of drone networks, smartphones, wireless sensor networks, and other systems. He is also conducting extensive research on human-machine teams and AI and machine-learning applications to attack detection and mitigation. During his time at UT, he has participated in several collaborative research proposals that have been funded by various agencies, including the NSF (National Science Foundation), AFRL (Air Force Research Lab), NASA-JPL, Department of Energy (INL/LLNL/PNNL), and the State of Ohio. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed journal, conference, and poster papers.
Address:EECS Department, The University of Toledo, , Toledo, Ohio, United States