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

该项目正在解决一个问题，即为什么在日益增长的网络安全职业中女性很少。年轻人最先接触到的网络安全问题之一，往往是在高中和大学阶段举办的网络安全竞赛。大多数这类比赛都以“男性”为重点，以军事“夺旗”原则为基础。因此，参加这些活动的女性很少。这个项目的目的是开发一个对女性友好的网络安全竞赛，它基于三个概念：(1)对网络安全的另一种看法，使用“保护”、“使用”和“分析”方法；(2)在安全和隐私日益重要的医疗保健环境中的系统和数据；(3)由大学生(男性和女性)为高中生设计的竞赛。该项目将比赛的发展融入现有的课程中。马里蒙特大学是这个项目的所在地：它在同一所学校同时开设了医疗保健和信息技术课程，学生群体多样化，其中70%是女性。在第一场比赛中，学生和他们的老师被邀请参加一个关于网络安全原则和实践的夏令营，比赛在夏令营结束时举行。大学生充当导师，特邀演讲者将网络安全作为一种职业。然后，学生工作者充当当地教师的导师，为他们提供中性材料，帮助其他学生为第二次独立的网络安全竞赛做准备。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.