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不断增长的网络安全专业中很少有女性的问题。年轻人接触网络安全的第一步通常是参加高中和大学级别的网络安全竞赛。这些比赛大多以“男性”为重点，以军事“夺旗”原则为基础。因此，很少有女性参加。该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）使用“保护”、“使用”和“分析”方法的网络安全的另一种观点;（2）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。该项目将竞赛的发展纳入现有课程。玛丽蒙特大学是这个项目的所在地：它在同一所学校里有医疗保健和信息技术课程，而且学生群体也是多样化的，其中70%是女性。对于第一场比赛，学生和他们的老师被邀请参加夏令营，以网络安全原则和实践，在营地结束时进行比赛。大学生担任导师和特邀演讲者，将网络安全作为一项职业。然后，学生工作者担任当地教师的导师，为他们提供性别中立的材料，因为他们为其他学生准备第二次独立的网络安全竞赛。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.