EDU: Developing a "Protect", "Use" and "Analyze" Approach to Cybersecurity Competitions in the Healthcare Environment (PUNCCH)

这个项目正在解决为什么在日益增长的网络安全行业中很少有女性的问题。年轻人第一次接触网络安全的机会通常是在高中和大学举办的网络安全竞赛。这些比赛大多以“男性”为重点，基于军事上的“夺旗”原则。因此，很少有女性参加。该项目的目的是建立一个女性友好的网络安全竞赛，该竞赛基于三个概念：(1)网络安全的另一种观点，使用“保护”、“使用”和“分析”方法；(2)安全和隐私日益重要的医疗环境中的系统和数据；(3)由大学生（男女）为高中生设计的比赛。该项目将比赛的发展融入到现有的课程中。玛利蒙特大学是这个项目的所在地：它在同一所学校有医疗保健和信息技术项目，而且学生群体多样化，其中70%是女性。在第一项比赛中，学生和他们的老师被邀请参加网络安全原则和实践夏令营，比赛在夏令营结束时进行。大学生充当导师，邀请演讲者介绍网络安全作为一种职业。然后，学生工作者作为当地教师的导师，在他们为其他学生准备第二场独立的网络安全竞赛时，为他们提供不分性别的材料。评估包括学生（男性和女性）在比赛前后对网络安全领域的看法。

This project is addressing the question of why there are few women in the growing cybersecurity profession. One of the first exposures to cybersecurity for young people is often a cybersecurity competition, offered at the high school and college levels. Most of these competitions have a "male" focus, based on military "capture the flag" principles. As a result, very few females attend them. The purpose of this project is to develop a female-friendly cybersecurity competition, which is based on three concepts: (1) an alternative view of cybersecurity, using "protect", "use" and "analyze" approaches; (2) systems and data in the healthcare environment where security and privacy are increasingly important; and (3) a competition designed by university students (male and female) for high-school students. The project integrates the development of the competition into existing courses. Marymount University is the location for this project: it has both healthcare and information technology programs in the same school and a diverse student body that is also 70% female. For the first competition, students, and their teachers, are invited to attend a summer camp to cybersecurity principles and practices, with the competition at the end of the camp. University students act as mentors and invited speakers present cybersecurity as a career. Student workers then act as mentors for local area teachers providing them with gender-neutral materials as they prepare other students for a second stand-alone cybersecurity competition. Assessment includes the perceptions of students (male and female) to the cybersecurity field before and after the competitions.