Teaching Cybersecurity

[Music] welcome everyone welcome welcome welcome to another exciting code HS webinar this one today is g to be awesome teaching cyber security welcome welcome lots of familiar names I see some new people hello hello hello [Music] Kim we will wait just a minute while we're waiting I am going to put the link to the slides in the chat for you if you would like them and there we go hi Roger hi k young one vesselin [Music] hello oh Roger has a question hi Roger so if you have a question feel free to type it in the Q&A at the bottom you'll see at the bottom of your screen it says Q&A you can ask us a question there or you could type your question in the chat if the chat gets too crazy sometimes your question might be lost in there so if you're really wanting to make sure sure we see that question I think my my advice would be to put it in the Q&A we do have a lot of people registered for this webinar today so our chat might get filled up pretty quickly welcome welcome all right Joe if you want to go to the next slide for me hold on here we go all right so will introduce myself my name is Robin Lesley I'm a professional development specialist with codehs and I have been with the company for a little over a year before that I taught computer science and I used codehs in my classroom for 15 years and we have Joe Thompson with us today Joe do you want to introduce yourself sure I'm just finished my fifth year at McDon School teaching CS I've been teaching CS for 10 years and I haven't been using it for 15 like you Robin but I consider myself to be one of the longer users of code HS I'm excited to be here awesome thank you thank you and then if you want to go to the next slide so this is our agenda for today I'll go ahead and I'll put the slide link there you go slide link is in the chat again and we are set for two hours we'll see how it goes if we have lots of questions and lots of Engagement we might hit that 2hour Mark if if not you may get out of here a little bit early we will see how it goes if you could go to the next slide all right so this is what I was mentioning at the start we do have a couple of places for you to interact with us so if you look at the bottom of your screen you'll see you have a chat and then you'll see you have a Q&A button so the chat button we would love for you guys to engage with with each other and chat in the chat area but if you have a question for us or if you have a question for Joe I think the best place for you to put that would probably be in the Q&A today and sometimes in the Q&A we'll just type the answer back to you and sometimes in the Q&A we will see that it's a question for Joe and we will let Joe know that he has a question and then he will answer it live for you so if you have any questions go ahead and click the Q&A and type your question in and then if you could go to the next slide so if you are new to codehs and I did see that we have some people who are new or first time users I'm going to put this 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throughout the year then if you could go to the next slide and then some of the things that we have instant feedback we have extensive grading and tracking tools for teachers which are also very helpful as well and then if you could go to the next slide awesome all right all right so that is my Spiel I will continue to put links in the chat as we need them and again if you have any questions for Joe or you have any just general codehs questions you could type those into the Q&A and thanks for coming go ahead Joe it's it's great to be here and thank you for that introduction Robin and glad to have you with us also lean Cod HS has basically made me as a teacher it's when I first started I was given a course called computers and the students were really not interested in the material that was there and we started looking around for something that they would be interested in and stumbled across Cod HS and it sort of was was a fantastic thing for them to see and I've sort of made my career off the energy that cods has put into my students and certainly I followed the the several iterations of the cods Cyber course and I I think that this code HS cyber course particularly the newest one should be an important part of your toolkit in teaching this very important discipline to high school students and I I when I was putting together this presentation I I kept thinking about the students that I've had in the last couple years at McDon teaching cyber and you're looking at six NC wit National Center for Women technology Award winners from this year all six of these guys are are cyber practitioners two of them are currently employed ones at Manch and the others at Lockheed Martin and they have yet to start their first day of college I could say I could go on and on about all six of these guys but what your job is going to be as teachers is to point these guys in the right direction and do everything you can to encourage them and they are going going to do great things in this field and they're going to do great things with their cyber skills that you're encouraging them to get you all all of you educators are used to getting appreciative notes from students and families and they're counting on you these students are count and their families are counting on you to push them in directions that they wouldn't otherwise have been pushed into and you know you know that the best source of student energy is is somewhere inside them and you're you're always looking for ways to get them excited about things and they have so much energy that if you can just find the right way to get them going they will apply those reserves of energy and and do amazing things and so I encourage you to keep looking at these notes that you're getting from your students as you as you go forward as cyber Educators I'm G to tell you a little bit about my story in the hopes that it will it will give you some confidence because this cyber is sort of a new field and a lot of people like me are are sort of diving into it and it's very tough when you're starting out to feel like you know how am I ever going to master this and you're not ever going to master it but you're gonna with the help of codehs one of the great things about codhs is you'll be able to guide students to help them feel like they this is something that's for them so I started out a long time ago as a computer break fix guy and I had a business out of with a truck and you know just fixed people's computers and their networks and got referrals and my customers liked me and then one of my customers who happen to have a string of dental offices in the state said they that I needed to go work for a school because the school needed some it help so I went to work there as an IT guy for 5 years I did some coaching I really enjoyed working with kids I took some teaching classes at Community College but I wasn't sure I would ever be able to make it into the classroom so classroom teaching was sort of a dream for me and never didn't really expect that it would happen and then it happened I was hired by another school to be IT director and with that job came a one class called computers and the the students really weren't that interested in the curriculum of that particular class and I know all you Educators know that look when you have students that are not engaged and I was seeing a lot of that and sort of scratch in my head and I said why don't we try some programming and we actually tried a couple of different ways to learn programming and not really making a lot of Headway and then we hit code HS and it was a hit right from the beginning one of the reasons they liked it was that they didn't all have to be exactly in the same spot they could go the ones who wanted to go faster could go faster the other ones could acrew Mastery and they were still feeling like they were moving but they didn't have to be the fastest guy or go at any particular pace and they also like the collaboration I mean was sort of everybody against the platform more or less you know solving problems is really kind of what code HS is all about and you learn lessons on the platform and then you use those lessons to solve things and move forward and my students just loved this and they they were they loved it so much that they were doing Cod HS in other classes and getting in trouble for doing Cod HS in their English classes and other places the the I I can only describe the experience as this coding sort of blew up at the school it's just everybody was taking part in it and it was it was really something so of course the school you know levered this and found that hey this is kind of angle for us as a school and there's there's a couple of my early students there doing Cod HS in in a study hall and then in in Spring 2015 we were testing AP Java course and Jeremy kishan came out in his pink Cod chess mobile and it was nuts it was crazy day I was really exciting I really was super happy that Jeremy included Us in his itinerary and students went run running out to his car it was just an amazing moment and they coded him into the school using JavaScript commands on the road and there's a picture of some of my students with with Jeremy in front of the pink car there's Carol this was quite a day but we had a lot of work to do after that I don't have a lot of teaching training and my classroom management skills are not the world's greatest but I'm you know I run a half decent class and then the assistant head wandered into my classroom as I'm sure some of you have had this experience and I was sort of vol told that I was going to be teaching AP Java the next year and i' had never written any Java code I was a little bit apprehensive and we adopted the first code hsap Java course and one of my students Garrick got a four which was amazing and the new CS JV of course has been great and then I met I met a fantastic teacher at the csta convention in San Diego named Mary perro from Bridgeport Public Schools and she talked to me about what it was like to teach a different set of students than than the ones I was facing and you know she was great and I I I'm sure there are people on this call right now who are who are looking at challenges that are far beyond the ones any that I have ever faced and I I'm sure that this is something for all of your students and I I know that there are students of yours out there who are going to light up with cyber and they're going to find it really fascinating and interesting and you're going to change lives by exposing your students to cyber using codhs I had a nice relationship with a a lab at a college at dmouth College they actually invited us to go visit them and we had a couple of trips up there moved up to Connecticut in 2017 to teach at boarding school and I got out that was the end of me in the it business I was pure teacher which I couldn't believe I was so happy to just be teaching and then with Cod HS for the second time I saw the coding and just kind of blow up there and added mobile app class had two sections of AP Java and I became aware that you know cyber was was coming on and I I didn't really do anything with cyber at at Avon but I knew that there was a competition coming at locked Martin called cyber Quest and I started thinking that in future in the future I would want to teach cyber there's my old classroom it was a converted water tower was pretty interesting little classroom let's keep going here we did another VIs visit to this Dartmouth do lab and and and one of the things you guys can all get your students excited about particularly with cyber actually is cyber is still considered primarily a college sort of pursuit and most of the clubs that are out there are college clubs the teams that you face in cyber competitions are likely to be college teams and student high school students are really interested in anything that sort of smacks of college level work they want to they want to see more about what that's like and even further into their future let's see my dad was in Maryland he got sick I had to move back to Maryland and I found a great job at McDon with an incredibly supportive boss who was all on board when I told her how great Cod HS was and actually the first year we had seat licenses and then the second year we went to a silver sight license if we've got any District administrators on this call or any people are considering sort of schoolwide adoption of Cod HS or have maybe have one or two classes running Cod HS now the I would strongly urge you to talk to your Cod HS people about getting a silver site license which allows you to have as many sections of cod HS as you want and then once you have one of those the whole challenge is to get as many people and as many teachers using Cod HS as possible and if you can get more than one teacher and several sections going you save an awful lot of money by doing a silver site license so I'll leave that for the cods people to follow up with but I'm very happy that we did a silver sight license for the last three years because we're near Baltimore we had access to some government agencies that a lot of you guys don't aren't aren't close enough to do it but I've had some people do work studies at government agencies I've had people do internships my first locked Martin intern was up at up in Connecticut I had a guy go to work at Sikorski and was incredible and and now I've I've had seven students do internships you guys all know that cyber security has for all practical purposes a zero unemployment rate there are many many empty seats out there in cyber and so among the other things you're doing is helping your students actually find you know nice jobs when they get out of college the companies that are looking for cyber people are all looking for people who have for the most part have some college too so they're not they're not this isn't a trade school situation but basically cyber people are really in demand and you'll have when you encourage your students to do cyber they will be getting nice paid work starting at least partway through their college careers let's keep going so my first cyber class was my first year at MCD and I had five students in there it was the beginning of the pandemic it was spring semester of the beginning of the pandemic and well actually before that in the fall of that year I took a team to loed Martin cyberquest and that was a real eye opener because of the five people on my team we had three interviews and two internships so that was a pretty nice ratio there and that was when I sort of really started to see that there are just tremendous career opportunities for students who have some cyber interest or experience and then I also had a work study hire for the government who then was admitted to Yale we were looking at different types of hacking of websites and we were introduced the topic of robots.txt and I told my students absolutely do not hack the mcdo website and one of them went right ahead and and looked at robots.txt on the McDon website and about a minute later my phone rang in my classroom and the director of risk management our school had us all March up to his office and he was wanted to find out what was going on but so at some point some of you may have some interesting discussions with School administrators or staff about what's going on in your classroom and if you just let them know what you're doing and help your students understand that they need to be ethical about what they're doing it will be a big help so we that first class I had we we adopted CTF learn also and and started doing getting points on CTF learn which I'll be showing you guys a little later in this presentation and that was a that was a great way to get through the pandemic I've had a number of students win the NSA works study I've had NC wit prizes from my students I've had good college admissions and again you know this sounds like me bragging but I'm just trying to communicate to you guys what's possible and how you can expect have some success in a lot of different ways by finding your path of teaching cyber and because cyber is such a opportunity Rich field that your students are going to are going to be in demand and they're going to do amazing things there's a scholarship at a government agency that basically provides 30,000 a year for college and a job when you graduate I've had three people win that I've got a student at Manch now I've had a number of them at Lockheed Martin I've got one hired by the Baltimore Police Department KCI which is a huge construction firm I think they're very likely to get the contract to rebuild the Key Bridge Cisco got a guy out at Cisco and and it's just you know I'm very very proud in case you can't tell of all my students and what they've gone on to do when you start teaching cyber I think it's an okay thing to tell your students that you know they're on a relatively Short Road short compared to say medicine or law that they're gonna they're going to come at their they're going to be looking at internship offers you know as quickly as a year or two after they've begin studying cyber and I would suggest that they need to prepare a resume and you can include that in your cyber teaching a simple or short resume is is better than listing everything from the eth grade or whatever on contact info interests and achievements and they can put Sears in there and I'll be talking a little more about CS going going on in this presentation there's a site that locked Martin looks at at tallo.com it's kind of a LinkedIn for high school students I would tell every student you've got in every class you have to get on Tallow and put a pro put a profile themselves on there and I would also have them in in the case of cyber you might as well make them aware that clearances are going to be something that they should be aiming at down the road and they want to make sure that they don't get things like high school suspension which will stop you from getting a security clearance they they need to just be aware of the need or the use the utility of a security clearance so watch your social media and stuff like that let's see what are these certifications well I'm pretty big on certain and believe it or not Cod HS offers certifications they have a cyber certification I have a student that listed his codehs cyber certification on his on his resume and was he was told eventually when he did get the the internship that that was a part of the decision-making process and that actually the cods Cyber certification helped their programming CTS like the Oracle 811 Network plus any networking certification like A+ or network plus would be a great certification to have your students try for and these are sort of outside of what you would think of as a school assessment s sort of they they they feel a little bit like a trade school kind of thing but what they do in the world of it and in the world of cyber is they shorten those technical interviews down so somebody walks in and they have you know comp TI Security Plus they kind of go into a a short a small group of people that would that would get a get further along and so there are ways that you in teaching can there are ways that you can foster a sort of certification culture and that you can celebrate the achievements of your students with cs and one of them is to make something that I call for a lck of a better term the Hall of Fame which is just a a big piece of Post-It note that's sort of post or size on the wall and when somebody does something worth celebrating you note it on there all right let's go forward what am I doing here let's go forward from this slide I would say I mean I I suffer from something called impostor syndrome which is a lot of common in it and you need to be confident in moving forward and in insisting that you know you belong there in front of your students or along the alongside your students and you're helping them towards their dreams and your dreams for them are a huge contributing factor to their success let's go forward here we go and now let's see if we can watch this video and we leave the mo we leave it we came and God willing as we shall return I don't think you probably dreamed of this sorry hello yeah I can hear it okay I'm going you probably replayed this moment a thousand times the ground you probably imagined the awe inspiring Indescribable Rush of the ride you probably celebrated the miraculous cheered the momentous and mourned the shocking you still dream of what could be we did we do and while many thought we were through no we've been learning we've been building we've been training and now it's time because the next Frontier is not just for the Next Generation it's for this generation it's for me and it's for you for everything we still dream about we go as Artemis okay let's see if I can move this slide forward here we go all right I'm gonna revisit this about what I use I've I've used the cods courses I'm excited about the newest ones I also use raspberry pies which are really nice devices that run on Linux most of you know what those are ctfs we're going to get into a little deeper in this presentation which also have a learning platform themselves sometimes and also competitions other Linux platforms where you can run Linux if you have a Mac you can open a Linux window in your utilities you can create a virtual machine beaglebone blacks a somewhat overlooked and very cheap credit card siiz device students are going to find things to help each other with particularly in ways of getting through these ctfs which you need to pay attention to because they're going to they're going to come up with tools that you weren't aware of visiting any contact you can have with professionals in this field is is super well well helpful and has helped me and those people are always going to encourage you the people at the places that want to employ your students are going to be giving you a lot of encouragement the first cyber competition a good one to go to which is an online one is here in this link they usually run one in the fall and they run one in the spring they happen to be based out of Westminster Maryland but we've seen schools from all over the world at these competitions and the the level of CTF questions is appropriate for high school students so this is one I strongly recommend you think about getting involved [Music] in this and on this slide I want to make a point about how big the Cyber field is is because I don't want any of you guys to get in overwhelmed or feel like you you can never be a big cyber expert because there's so much to it it's such a vast field and when you look at even the high school textbooks that have been written you know there 25 chapters lots of different sub Fields so don't hesitate to kind of tell your students how big the field is and how many different disciplines can get involved in it but also say look we're going to pick a few things and try to get a go a little bit deeper we don't want to just go through the whole year and scratch the surface at a depth of half an inch on every subfield and that's true for me too and so typically I have I've worked hardest on cryptography networking including Linux and the powerful tools Linux offers for networking iot devices which are often weak spots in in cyber SQL hacking and mobile devices and then I also encourage students and and we do have times when we talk about particular attacks instead of just a sort of subfield we talk about actual stories of how an attack went scatter hacking ransomware and who the bad guys are at this one moment I would point out that you know there's a sort of false feeling that's out there in cyber that that this the bad guys are sort of one guy in his basement and there nothing could be further from the truth that you're actually with cyber you're looking to protect networks from very often very highly organized highly paid nation state actors Iran U Russian stuff North Korea so don't don't don't hide that from your students that you're you're sometimes up against some some big guys you're going to have to explain to them why and how cyber is important basically the way I tell the high school students that cyber is important is that we took a civilization that was not online and moved everything online banking everything we moved we just said hey we're gonna all put this online because it's going to make everything so much easier and better and this at the beginning the idea that it needed to be secured was s sort of an afterthought and they're going to have to understand a little bit about how networks work what's a packet how to packet move around which and everything in cyber will sort of lead to something else so discussion of packets will take you pretty quickly into the OSI model I don't see how you get too much of anywhere in cyber without having an idea about encryption and cryptography everything that's online has to be encrypted in some way and you know the more important it is the more important encryption methods and cryptography become how do we start with encryption and cryptography we start with the older encryption systems and the Caesar Cipher and transposition ciphers and then we we slowly work to newer ones and you know it would not be unusual to spend most of a a semester or a year not reaching current encryption standards but you need to build that base in your students and I I think I think you'll you'll be doing them a favor if you spend considerable time playing around with encryption and cryptography and then finally this has mainly come from the employers and the agencies that I've spoken to they love people who are comfortable with Linux right and so your students are coming to you and they're starting without any understanding of Linux they're used to working in either a Mac or Windows system and they have no idea why anybody would just open up a a a terminal window and start typing in commands so but the powerful tools that are available in Linux the fact that Linux can run fairly simple systems that Linux is the core of a lot of iot machines Linux is kind of in there is is something that's very powerful in the in the practice of cyber security and you know you might as well start advocating for that right away so Robin I I think this is a good place to take a little break maybe ask if there's some questions out there before we go to the next part of the program sure if anybody has any questions for Joe feel free to type them into the chat or into the Q&A and we can make sure that we get those answered I know he's giving a lot of great information and he's going to be going into more detail on some other things that he does in his classroom and also a little bit of information about our fundamentals of cyber security course and the pathway that we have for cyber security but if you have any questions feel free to put those in and we will let him know and we'll have some other moments in this when we get a chance to ask questions and respond also so Robin shall I dive to the next section sure oh you do have a question though says I saw you suggested the network plus would you say that would be more appropriate for high school students versus the Security Plus network plus is I I look at that as a component of Security Plus so Security Plus is a nice ultimate goal it's a pretty hard one and I would go for Network plus first so that's a great question and I would I would say to your student who is asking about CS you know get the code HS cybert and then start thinking about the network plus cert after that and that's a that will be very helpful in getting Security Plus was that a helpful answer Robin that was perfect thank you I am going to talk some more about how we can sort of build a culture of CTS in our classroom because I think you're really doing your students a favor by encouraging them to go after and and they're thinking they're coming to you at the start of their exposure to you thinking that high school and education in general is about getting grades and working on your grade point average and so they don't really they're not really going to grasp what these and their families may or may not grasp what these CTS are all about but typically aert boils down to one exam and you get asked a whole bunch of multiple choice questions and if you get 70% of them right you have the CT and you're considered to have a certain amount of fundamental knowledge in that field and CS certainly in in it in general CS are held in pretty high regard because they do shorten down technical interviews and no no no time like teaching cyber to get your students going on the idea that they should be pursuing Cs and that you know at some point in their future they would want to be walking around with a CompTIA Security Plus CT or one of the CCA one of the other asserts that are out there and leave it to you guys to do research on the type of CTS but I also say that Cod HS with the combination of Badges and and the actual CTS that Cod HS offers is a great first step and a great way to sort of condition your students to think about getting Cs and piling up the SS and they do want they should be thinking about getting [Music] those how we doing Robin should I should I dive to the next section or yeah I think we are good if you want to keep going all right let's let's do a little more work here and then maybe at the end of this next section we'll take a short break hang on awesome all right so codehs has from humble beginnings architected up basically a whole cyber security pathway and you know I I have opinions on this and I I think it's but it's nice that they have this offering I do like the idea of a pathway where you could have students who are and their families who think I really want my students that be doing cyber they could literally take classes in each of their years of high school and these would all be building on their cyber skills and the first one that that I think I think all students should have some web designs they should have an idea of how a website works how does information get transmitted to and from a website and it it's great to get a sense of what HTTP and CSS do what are the Frameworks that are out there like bootstrap which basically writes the CSS for you so I think a little bit of web design for a cyber person is super helpful so Cod HS offers that course and then they also have fundamentals of cyber security which they have put in here as a 10th grade course you know that doesn't necessarily have to be taught just in 10th Grade it could be taught earlier could be taught later you know and then we have this AP Computer Science principal cyber security course which is very helpful and then finally they have stuck here as a 12th grade course Advanced cyber security so keeping in mind that my my success as an educator has come from the gamification and the fact that students can move to another level whenever they're ready you don't you certainly don't want to do anything that holds your students back but rather you want them to feel like when they're ready to do more 's plenty more for them to learn and whether it's codhs courses whether it's learning the tools in CTF learn whether it's competing in more competitions you always want to be ready you know to help students continue keep going keep putting that next foot in front of the other and you're you're gonna have to figure out exactly what sort of Rhythm this this takes I would say if you are graduating a student from high school and they've had even as little as one year of focused cyber security courses they are miles ahead of the vast majority of high school students you know there was once a dream that everybody every high school student in America would get some programming that hasn't worked out really but you know I think your students cyber security is typically a college student type of thing so if you can find a way to get Cyber into your high school curriculum you've really done something and don't feel like you're missing out if you're only able to have one year of cyber for your high school students most of the students that I've taught cyber have I've only been able to give them cyber for one year or even just one semester so this is a beautiful pathway that Cod HS has created but it's it's it's more than most of you will be able to to have happen in your school and don't feel like you're missing out or or that somehow your students won't be getting enough if they're not doing four years of of this so it's a nice path Robin I I really do like the pathway here so let's talk a little bit about the fundamentals of cyber security course which is a great place to start and you know one thing about cyber is there's quite a bit of jargon in it and it's it's good to face that thing kind of head on and say you know there's no way around learning some of these terms because you're going to have to exchange ideas with people and you're going to have to talk a Common Language so you're going to need to learn some of the jargon you're going to have to learn how big a field cyber security is you're going to learn have to learn some networking you're going to have to learn some encryption and cryptography and you're going to have to understand the sort of wise of of why all this stuff is important then we have the AP Computer Science principles course in cyber security which National Science Foundation had a lot to do with this course there's some cyber security applications in written in JavaScript and this is an exciting course that you know you should take a look at and think about it you know in cods you have syllabuses available you can do sample lessons there's lots of access to these courses and you know please take a look at these courses I I don't know how many of you know that you can it's very easy to drop a module from particular courses into your course and please don't hesitate to move lessons around or take take lessons from a particular course that you like and use them in another course so Robin did I I took about five minutes there to talk about the codehs courses how was that or that was the pathway right yeah that was the pathway we'll get more into a little bit more into some of the details of the fundamentals of cyber security course but did you want to take a quick five minute break and then we'll let's do that let's give everybody a breather here and they may also think up some they may also think up some questions while we're on this break or talk to each other so let's take a four minutes or so and we'll be back at 49 all right sounds good for for okay Robin should we crank it back up absolutely all right I'm excited about the next couple of bits of this program I'm excited to show you guys CTF learn and Pico C F and I want to keep rolling so we get to those you have OB seen that cods provides badges for some of your students when they achieve certain levels or complete various exercises and I have found that badges are really nice things for my students they actually like those and I've I've printed them out and given them to students with my signature on the bottom you the badges are a tool for you to use and you can use a badge to make a big deal out of just about anything you feel like doing and so I recommend you do that and that the students start to feel like you know obtaining a badge is kind of a good you know something to really go for and one of my courses I just made badge up if the student gets 30% through the course there's lots of ways for you to do that and a badge could be assert so you you could print out and there are ways for you to do that printing out the a badge and and it shows what they did to to do these to get this badge they completed a quiz they completed an exercise and they watched a video so I'm pretty big on badges in code HS I even made up a badge for people who got logged in and got started and like awarding that one 50% complete is a nice badge to have you can have badges for more General qualities that your students bring to your class and you you see some students who are really skilled at working in teams or tying teams together I I look at collaboration as an important skill and I think you should recognize that you as a teacher are going to know you know the kinds of things you want you value in your students and you can come up with some badges for that you can even have badges for persistence or you know somebody who's just will not quit on a problem so you can think about what badges you might make and next I want to bring the idea of a Hall of Fame because it's really helped me and I think it will help all of you guys particularly you know we're we're in cyber security and you know it's tough to figure out what is what is progress you know what like how are we how do we have something to hang our hats on and a Hall of Fame can be a great way to do that anything notable that a student does completing a difficult exercise on cods completing a module of cod HS solving a CTF problem that gets a certain number of points doing a training part on on one of the ctfs that I'm going to show you those could are all things that could go in the Hall of Fame that you put in your classroom what achievements of your students are you most proud of those can go on the Hall of Fame so there it is there is my you know brilliant Hall of Fame right there on the left and it just be the students name and their accomplishment this is one of my mobile app classes where a student got on the Google Play Store I put it up on the Hall of Fame students love to see their names up there they love to come back and reflect on it down the road it's been a really huge big help these hall of fames and if if you have a student that gets aert like if they get a codehs cyber CT go ahead and put that on the Hall of Fame if they and then every once in a while you're going to have to kind of read do it but that's okay too so and then you can have a sort of more rougher one rougher looking one you know and it's so nice to just have that paper on the wall and you go up there and add somebody's name to it it's it's quite a moment there's another picture so I thought I would you I'm going to keep on going because we'll we'll get some more questions down the road and if you have questions about the hall of fame or how you would use that tool you can let us know all right now we're going to look at this new cods course called fundamentals of cyber security it's a one-ear long course it replaces the current fundamentals of cyber security course cyber is evolving and you know you you probably already figured out that there's not a ton of coding in cyber there's a a lot of other things but it's very helpful for your students to have some some coding background as they move forward in cyber so I would want them to have some exposure to JavaScript or Java but they're going to find as they move through this that there's a lot of sort of problem solving solving puzzles those kinds of skills are really important with cyber so we get network fundamentals software security system administration and cryptography all in this fundamentals of secur of cyber Cor now SQL SQL is kind of programming and it's kind of database work because SQL is is a language that was written to query a database so if you think of a website for example the login screen of a website is essentially a window into the database that the website contains user IDs and passwords are found in a database so a SQL query is going to present that user login and password to that database so fundamental of SQL hacking is essentially giving commands SQL commands to the database that's behind the login screen of the website saying somehow figuring out a way to tell that database to give you back everybody whose name begins with a or something like that so you know SQL is sort of programming but sort of database stuff and it's an important topic in cyber and I'm glad that it's in this fundamentals of cyber security course and it is aligned to assert CompTIA ITF plus which is pushed by Microsoft is aligned with this course and so this is a nice example of assert that would go along with completing this course where you would complete the codehs the new cods fundamentals of cyber security course and your students would be equipped at that point to take and pass the CompTIA ITF plus certification there are a lot of newer interactive activities like drop down quizzes and Labs the more of these the better I find and those are great examples of things that could go on the Hall of Fame if you complete a lab you go up on the Hall of Fame there it's up todate so cyber stuff does t kind of get stale over time this Field's always changing so the work that Cod HS and its curriculum developers have put in to have something really fresh and current is very much appreciated I mean the the first ever high school cyber security textbook was written a couple it was first published two years ago and it's already in a second edition expanded coverage deepen your understanding with new material and advanced cryptography Concepts OSI model if you want to talk about how packets move around the internet and move from say what you're seeing on the screen to what somebody else is seeing on their screen and the these this information has to move down through various layers of your computer including the operating system all the way down to the physical layer which is literally ones and zeros moving across a wire and then they have to go be put back together on the other end so you quickly you know when you're talking about Network traffic you quickly move into a discussion of the OSI model risk management and vulnerability testing all important so here we are looking at some of the things that are covered in unit one of the fundamentals of cyber security course and some of this stuff you really don't have any way around you gotta You' gotta cover this you know everyone needs to know the CIA Triad it doesn't stand for Central Intelligence Agency and you know I would recommend that you come back to the CIA Triad frequently As you move through your course and say you know what are we talking about availability here are we talking about Integrity what are we talking about here and then the course moves into cryptography which I really like and it starts early with the Caesar Cipher and the visionaire cipher which is a poly alphabetic substitution Cipher visionaire you can have an awful lot of fun with I I would have students create their own table for visionaire those of you who know what it is I've had them just they start by making the tables and then actually iteration you know whether you're talking about programming whether you're talking about cyber doing stuff again and again is has its place and it's it's it's good to not just push on to a new topic but actually to get that practice and and do something a few times to feel comfortable with it create an escape room I've had a quick look at this that looks like a very interesting project and it would be another example where you could complete this project and it would be a good Hall of Fame thing to have and then we get into system administration which all of our cyber practitioners are going to want to have some idea all the different configurations that you can do with a computer and a network how to P put in software patches how to handle manage user accounts and how to Baseline a network or a system then we have some it Concepts like IP addresses some sort of fundamentals of networking what is a domain name system how does it how does that translate when you type in NY times.com that turns into a network address and how does how does that all work that's an important thing for a high school level student to have understanding about digital divide censorship and cultural influence certainly important getting more into U information Warfare kind of stuff there I it infrastructure that second thing that circled there 62 computer disassembly I think is a fantastic thing and I think all of you teachers I I value this tremendously because for most students first of all they're using laptops or tablets they're not using oldfashioned they're not using desktop computers for the most part so they don't really know what even the parts of a computer are they don't really know what a Nick is they don't understand what a chip is and there's nothing like taking an old computer and just taking the thing apart and asking yourself what are some of the things I'm seeing what is a drive what is secondary storage what is the ram what the heck does that do how do these how does information move around inside the computer so if you can get your hands on some old computers and construct an activity around taking those things apart and they never have to get put back together if you get old junky computers that probably some people would give to you and just talk about the different cables and how what they're seeing inside a computer they will really enjoy it my students always have and I think this is a terrific thing to be included in this course then we get into Soho devices and mobile device connectivity all of our students have phones we're trying to not have them be on their phones during our classes but what I would really like to see happen is for the students to to emerge from a cyber course with a really good understanding of what's at risk how how is their data available you know what what can where at what points does the information that they have on their phone travel across a network and where can it be intercepted or discovered so talking about mobile device and mobile device connectivity what's an AP that's a really important topic and so I'm glad that c has put it in here and then we have a project where students are being an IT professional showing the many hats that it people tend to wear and I like this idea of this project being in here and data security getting into some SQL stuff and cross-site scripting which I think the students will like they when they're doing SQL activities they start to think of themselves as hackers and get an idea of how Bad actors can can access important data overflow an important topic reconnaissance all the stuff that you can do without ever hacking anything super important for an audit a cyber audit and Pen testing and then this game of Risk project looks really interesting to me does anybody have questions here about the fundamentals of cyber security course Robin I think I'm gonna dive forward now oh looks like a couple people have questions go ahead and type your questions into the chat for us okay and we'll make sure typing please hold yeah so Robin you can ask them to me because I'm not looking at the chat right now no problem course code for the codehs course if you're talking about the fundamentals of cyber security course we didn't create a section for you to hop in today but you for sure can add it add the course to your account I will put the link in again there you go so that is the link that takes you to all of the information the syllabus everything about the fundamentals of cyber security course and then you could go ahead and click on that and add it to your courses if you would like I can't cover everything for what we have planned in our new course what top three or four chapters are musts in your opinion sure great question so I would I would really try to do I would try to do some cryptography that would be one I would try to introduce them to Linux and I would try to do some networking those would be the three if somebody really wanted to nail down three most important things how do I enroll as a student for the cyber security section I created where is this not included you actually don't have to enroll as a students in it I mean you can I actually recommend doing that yeah but if if not you can just switch you know you can switch from teacher view to student view and you can complete it the student that way but I will send you some information on how to do that you can just go to where the students where you go to add a student and and there will be a URL there when you when it's when you see add a student and you just take that URL and paste it into a browser window and it'll enroll you as a student then you can do that too yep awesome and then Amy it says Linux coding question mark okay yeah let's talk about that because somewhat similar to talking about SQL Linux isn't really a computer programming language it's an operating system it's an operating system that is not one that your students are going to be familiar with and it's very useful for machines that are old and slow or Internet of Things devices like there's a there's a type of Raspberry Pi that's about the size of a chick stick of chewing gum or the chip that's in your doorbell and these are very big focuses of cyber people now and and Linux is what runs those things and if you become familiar with Linux you're going to be help you're going to be a great help to companies that wish to secure all kinds of devices the fridge computers and the things that are in cars so Linux is is tremendously helpful as an operating system and there are Linux commands that invoke powerful tools in the Linux operating system that do things for example SSH actually lets you travel across a network and run another Linux system remotely so if you get good at SSH and you have network access you could actually run another system from your system so just as one example of how Linux is helpful but I would say the basic description of Linux is more of an operating system than a programming language so you'll be learning commands that do things but you won't be writing Co Linux code the way you would write Java code or the way you'd write JavaScript code you would just be learning your way around the operating system super important though did that that do does that answer the question Robin to your satisfaction yes that was really good Peter also asks if Linux is so important why not in cods so interesting where to even begin to learn and use during class how to have students do Linux lessons great question fantastic question I think I've got an answer and it's coming up awesome stay tuned Peter yes hang in there Peter I I completely validate your thought that Linux is important and we have to find as cyber teachers ways to get our students started and to continue with Linux because it's not a typically a graphic user interface system and we've gotta teach them and we're GNA find some ways I'm gon to talk about that in a second so Robin let me move forward so we can get to these CTF things perfect okay all right here we go we've come to the the first Major Tool that I use which is in addition to Cod HS in addition to this great thing and I note that Cod hs's these new courses have included some ctfs in them and I'm really excited to see that codage has is adopting that what does CTF stand for CTF stands for capture the flag what do that mean well there is a string a series of characters that is set into another question or set in that is somewhere for a student to find and if you copy and paste that flag into an answer box on a CTF you will get points well students like doing things where you get points they like piling up lots of points and there are two tremendous platforms one called CTF learn and another called Pico CF and we're gonna talk a little bit about those now in the next 20 minutes and in in some of those ctfs you will find quite a bit more Linux instruction and help with getting familiar with Linux so I would take a minute or two for everybody to just hop on I'm gonna I'm going to teach you guys with some screenshots but I think this would be a good time for you to hop on CTF learn.com create an account for yourself and then you can move around the the site as I talk a little bit about it so Robin I want them to take two minutes and go hop on CTF learn.com and create an account all right sounds good I did put the link in the chat so everybody can click on it and so I'll just wait a minute here then I'm going to dive forward and it is an ongoing question exactly how do we salt Linux into our courses so that we get our students more comfortable with working in Linux so that when they're talking to a company like locked Martin and locked Martin hands them a beagle bone black as they did to some of my students and says go do something with this the ones who are comfortable with Linux can do it had a student had that exact the first day of a bunch of interns at locked Martin they passed out bagle B and blacks and said do this and that with the Beagle bone black and my student had was comfortable enough with Linux that she was able to do a couple things and they put her on the red team so like that was a good thing all right shall I go forward Robin I think we've given everybody enough time to create an account on CTF learn yeah here's a home screen of CTF learn and you will see across the top learn challenges scoreboard and dashboard and Mandu kids love going on here and getting some points so they're not going to instantly go to the part that says learn but I will tell you that there are some great Labs there for for them to get more comfortable with things like SQL and I would highly recommend you to look at that and try to find some ways to incorporate some of those learning things into your classes and then we go to the challenges section and I will tell you that you will all want your students will think that they they're cool enough to try the medium and hard levels and you need to be very firm with them and say I only want you trying the ones on the easy level to start with there's plenty of difficulty there on the easy level and you see this live Global dashboard which is everybody who's logged into the site worldwide is piling up points and you it's nice for for you as a teacher to see your students complete a challenge and watch them go up this board so let's go to the next slide here so this is an example of a challenge and this is one challenge called base two to the 6 which is about base 64 encryption which is an encryption system and it basically what you're G to try to do is take that thing after the exclamation point and decrypt it using a base 64 decryptor so what's what's great about this question is it's going to make you go find a tool a base 64 decryption tool and use that to decrypt this and when you find something that looks like what's in that flag box you would just copy it and paste it into that box and you would get credit for it okay but this still seems like a lot and how am I as a teacher going to teach this stuff you're going to tell your students guess what there are writeups and videos for every one of these exercises especially the ones in the easy one easy category that they can find online and so they will actually learn how to learn to do these CTF learn Problems by looking at videos and looking at writeups so in the case of base two to the six they would do something like Google base 2 to the six CTF learn and they'll come up with let's go I'm gonna come back to this slide so here's a write up on base two to the six so somebody wrote this up and said that they were able to figure out that it was a base 64 system and they used an online decoder called b64d code.org and they were able to do that and I've got a I've got a screen shot here of base64 dcode.fr but you on each of these questions you you want your students to try to learn at the very least something about these tools and even more than that maybe something about what base 64 encoding is all about and so usually a lot of blurbs on these tools about what exactly the tool is doing so like me you'll probably be a little apprehensive well what are my students just going to race to get the answer and not really understand the question or understand what they have had to do to get to that answer that's a danger but what you're imparting to them is a sense that they can learn some things have fun get some points and get a feel for this field of cyber security and I think the the benefit H far outweighs this risk that somehow students are just racing to find an answer but by Googling up these tools so let me see if I can go back maybe I can yes I can right we talked about that so now I want to talk a little bit about some of these tools most of these are software tools although raspberry Pine and Beagle bone and black are actual devices C Linux you're going to hear about and this goes again to the question that Peter asked about how to learn Linux well C is actually an entire Linux system that is a collection of cyber tools on it so if you install if you have a Raspberry Pi or an old computer and you install C Linux on that computer you're really doing your students a huge favor or they're doing themselves a huge favor because they have included in that operating system a huge Suite of software tools that do all kinds of crazy things it's like a Swiss army knife of cyber and I would encourage you to check out Cali Linux as a as a version of Linux and see if you can get it installed on a couple of computers in your classroom and what you're going to find or a couple of computers that students have access to somehow what you're going to find and you can install C Linux by the way on a Raspberry Pi it'll run on Raspberry Pi there's a flavor for that once they have CI Linux going then they're hunting through these tools all the time seeing if there's a tool on there that will work for the particular problem that they're working on so that's kind of the tool of Tools c Linux now other packet sniffers which are software tools that tell you packets that are flowing past the nick of the computer that you're on one of them's called wire wire shark there are other ones and those are an entire world of Network auditing that that are very helpful and complicated and take a while to learn nmap is is a system of is is a tool for looking at different devices that are attached to a network and then we we have in addition to this base 64 tool that I pointed out just now there are other online decryption tools that will do all kinds of different encoding encryptions and they will teach you some things too having an access point or router around and learning the configuration tools for that will definitely teach you something about networking and that's a good thing to be messing with so let me go forward now get some old junk computers I covered that already so I'm G to go forward here all right now we're in one of the learn on the learn tab of CTF learn if you guys are enrolled and you will see this SQL injection I think this is a fantastic lab there's six six levels to this lab and I think this is a really good way to learn about SQL hacking get and to get some to get some basics of SQL to see how you would enter what is essentially a command on a website login and get some useful information out of that so I so this is the learn tab on CTF learn and it's actually pretty darn useful so I would encourage you let me reiterate how I would use how I have used CTF learn in the classroom and I've definitely had periods of time in my class where I'm like we're doing CTF learn you need to be on the easy level we're doing cryptography now and go go get them go get some points and then you hopefully will have them in groups of two or three maybe working together on some of these and you know when you get to actual competitions they'll be teams of two or three so they're learning how to work together to solve some of these problems including talking about the problem figuring out what tools they're going to use and getting through it all so getting Flags in a CTF format I think is a tremendous way to get your students more engaged get them feeling like they're making progress you know they come home from school and they've learned how to use a new Tool to decrypt something they feel pretty good and they're excited about what they can do let's go forward you know looking go doing further Googling and asking about the type of thing you're doing what what the heck is base 64 what's it used for you know that that can be a very helpful thing for a lot of students some students really want that extra content they want to know they're not just all racing to get the answer I'm telling you you've got plenty of students who are looking to really get complete Mastery and I would not Overlook YouTube and YouTube videos for CTF learn problems on either one of these two platforms that I'm showing you today CTF learn and also Pico CTF there's some excellent videos that people have taken a lot of care to make they're not long and and they will walk you through step by step how to solve the easy level CTF learn problems and you will you will your students will learn by following these videos so do not exclude YouTube when your students are looking for ways to get through some of these CTF learn problems here's a video on this problem that I just introduced to you base two to the six produced by almond force not a lot of views here I happen to think it was a pretty good video that the guy made Bravo to him for making the video H it's a minute and 43 seconds Joe yes we have a question in the Q&A sure he asked if can you use activities on the CTF website for ninth graders AB absolutely they will like it ninth graders will be fine with CTF learn absolutely I've had eighth graders use it keep them on the easy level for some reason students they they just I think it's because they are looking trying to get a lot of points and they will kind of sometimes go to the medium or hard questions and they what they need to do is more easy questions rather than go oh I did five easy ones I want to go to the hard ones now they should spend time really thinking about the easy question I I certainly think I think Cod chess High School grade content is very appropriate for ath graders and up and so I would certainly stick a ninth grade might be the best time to get somebody started on CTF learn do that answer the question okay yes thank you all right now I'm going to show did everybody did Robin and do you guys think we had enough of a chance for people to look at CTF learn because I want to show you yet another platform I think so one person did say that it seemed like the site was running slow for them but I think maybe after refreshing it good somebody said lab launch is not working so it could just be that maybe the site is doing something at the moment all right I've had that exact experience and that's one reason why I didn't go to a screen share and a live demo on that every once more than every once in a while you'll feel some slowness on CTF learn you definitely will feel that so be patient with it try it but don't ignore it nice thanks for letting everyone know I think they were thinking something was wrong with their internet nope no no it's a it's a pretty common experience so then again you also have that hazard in the classroom now you get yourself all cranked up to do all kinds of stuff live what you do when there when it's a little laggy on that site wow you know so you're gonna find some ways to have your students work on CTF learn and be ready to To Go in different directions too so here I go with another one another site Pico CF and and this Pico CTF I like it it's not quite as attractive a site as CTF learn but I like it a lot and it's I haven't had the same kinds of issues with with the the site being slow that I have had with CTF learn so Carnegie melon also developed this as a way of getting people involved in in cyber security and again both the CTF learn and Pico CF should not be they are not competing with codhs they're not providing anywhere near the content level that Cod HS provides they are a supplement they're an extension they're a ways for students to get cranked up about CT fs and ctfs are really good thing good ways to learn and develop your confidence in cyber so I would ask your guys once again as I did with CTF learn to take this moment take a take a minute or two here I know we're at 1:25 PM let's go log in on Pico CF and go ahead and create an account it's it's legit go ahead and do that and then we'll talk about with I'll show you some screenshots and make a few suggestions so let's take one minute Robin and give them a minute to create an account on pcf.org that sounds good and just as a reminder you all do have access to the SL the slides for this presentation and I can put the link to the slides in again if you would like to save them the other thing that I usually do when I'm watching or I'm a participant in webinars and links are being put in the chat is I click on the link and then I bookmark that link so I can look at it again later so those are a couple of options but you will also get a video recording sent to you of this webinar sometime this week please share the slides awesome yes I will put the link in again for you I would have also one other response to the guy who asked the question about should a ninth grader be doing these ctfs in addition to saying absolutely definitely they should I think there are there should be a cyber security club in your school so consider talking to your students who are most interested in cyber and say you know you need to start a club and what can you do in that club you can have meetings you can plan to go to comp or attend competitions virtual competitions you can work on these ctfs together in that club for where things are a little easier going and it's not a class for grades I think a Cyber Club would be a great thing for you to encourage at your school in your cop's free time that you all have all right so Robin shall I start on Pico now sure all right let's take a quick look at pico CTF let's go forward here so a little bit different interface than CTF learn I like it and I have a few things I would talk but they also have a they have a primer on here which is helpful it's just basically an online book which can help with some of the jargon again with this I would stay with the easy level and I would go to some of the older competitions that they've had there if you scroll down the site the homepage of the site they'll say old competitions and you'd see something like pico CF 2021 or something like that and just leave it on easy and also you can choose the category so for example if you're starting on cryptography you could do a couple of cryptography questions I really like these the these two platforms and they also do have a way of tracking your points as you run them up so I would definitely take a good look at both CTF learn and Pico CTF and ask yourself if this is something that you can use you know 20 25 minutes have a students do a couple of questions on picoctf in groups fantastic way for them to move forward this is the primer that's in that's in Picos CF so it's an essentially an online textbook I really like their section two called the shell which gets into the question that was asked about Linux and what what is that thing all about there are specific details of hacking including JavaScript hacking and cross-site scripting that I really like I like the cryptography section their section six is really good so this is this is a very nice website that you will find useful in your high school classroom I'm certain of it I think Robin I've kind of done what I wanted to do here today I I really wanted to get far enough through this that in addition to talking about the Great codehs Courses I introduced our our audience to both CTF learn and picoctf I talked about some of the some of the ways in which I use these things in my classroom and some of the particular things that I do they're just tremendous opportunities for you guys you are going to make a difference in these kids' lives by EXP closing them to cyber by spending two weeks with them pushing cyber on them it doesn't have to be four years you know just get them get them so they have an idea what cyber is get them going on some particular aspect of it get them on these platforms get them working on COD HS you will have done them a tremendous favor so I think let me let me go back a little bit here I think this would be a good time to open it up Robin if that's okay with you and we could do some questions or we can we can wrap it up it's up to you yeah absolutely let's do some questions and I want to say that Kim Hanson just added another resource in the chat and she said this is another competition it's National cyber League yeah fantastic and then if anyone else has any resources they want to share any questions you want to ask about how Joe incorporates the use of these two sites in his classroom I would love to see codehs platform more and really how to use it on a day-to-day basis so Amy we do have some back to school webinars that are going to be coming out and they start at the beginning of September and you'll want to take a look at that and I'll put the link in the chat too before we go I have a couple more things to go over but we do have like the getting started started with codehs webinar which strictly goes over how to use codehs in your classroom how to access the curriculum and any of the teacher tools so I can definitely put the link in the chat I have I have a quick comment on that which is that this is not just a stock Cod HS is not a stock you know one size fits all you're going to as a teacher going to find ways to make it fit your teaching style and you use the the parts and pieces of codest that you like to get what you want done done and you certainly are free to just follow the platform and have students make their way through Lesson by lesson but you can also do an awful lot of modifying and customizing thank you and also while we're waiting to see if we have any questions I did put a link to our webinar survey in there into the chat if you could take just 3 minutes or so to fill that out for us let us know how we did today what you liked about the presentation anything else that you would like to see we would greatly appreciate that we do go over your feedback and then we also have Leanne did put a link in to our free PD that we offer so Joe if you could move ahead in the slides these are just some other ways to stay connected with other Educators in codehs so you can become a codehs certified educator you can take micro credentials to prove your knowledge of various programming languages if you happen to be on Facebook we do have a pretty active Facebook group for educators and you can get a lot of resources and tips from other Educators who use codehs in their classroom and then we are also on other social media as well and then if you could move one more that's the webinar survey I already did put that into the chat and then I am going to put into the chat one more time because I said I know that some of you had to sign up for a free teacher account today on codehs and maybe you weren't able to click on the attendance link so I went ahead and I just popped the attendance Link in there for you if you happen to miss that at the beginning and then we do have a question from Peter he asks do you spend any time on JavaScript yes I mean I I certainly think JavaScript is a great language for teaching and it's important for understanding how websites add interactivity to them I typically have I'm seeing my cyber students are sort of the at the upper level there they've already done a year of JavaScript and they've done a year of java so we're not spending a ton of time teaching JavaScript but we will discuss specific JavaScript hacking and so the answer I guess for Peter is yes that's that's a good that's a good topic to cover it's JavaScript hacking is a good topic to cover nice if you could U move forward one more slide thank you so I'm going to drop the link in again for some more free PD that we have coming up and we have getting started teaching CSN Middle School which is tomorrow we have our course launch for our new game development and unity course so the curriculum developer is going to be talking to you about that course and then we also have collaborating with AI so if you're looking to find ways to use AI in your classroom that would be a good one to attend and then next week on Tuesday we have a codehs teacher trainer who teaches game development in unity and she is going to be talking about how she does that in her classroom with our course so if you're interested in registering for any of those that link is also in the chat for you and then last but not least if you are interested in bringing code HS to your school or District maybe looking into getting a pro account instead of the free version you can go ahead head and go to codehs.com learn more yep and I I would strongly recommend that you take a look at the silver sight licenses too if we're talking about different options you have with codhs I think the codhs guys could do a little more to push those because the silver sight license really gives you a tremendous amount of of freedom and you will end up with a whole lot more students on the platform if you have the ability to create unlimited sections yeah someone's asking about their certificate yep you will get a certificate in the mail for attend or in the email I should say for attending you'll also get the recording I think we'll just wait another minute or so to see if anybody else has any questions for Joe while he is here with us mhm everyone's telling you Thank you in the chat that's great thank you very much I really enjoy doing this so I'm I'm grateful yeah this was a lot of great information for sure thank you thank you everyone if you don't have questions we will see you again next time if you do have any questions stick around and put your questions in the chat you're very welcome was a wealth of information yes it was very good information for you and your students well there's tremendous opportunity out there for students that get themselves going in cyber for sure so you're you're doing a tremendous favor to your students by getting them going absolutely Joe and I were actually talking the other day and one of my friends her son just graduated with a degree in cyber security and went right into a job making quite a bit of money so yeah it is it is very lucrative and very In Demand right now it's a reflection of the need the tremendous need that's out there for people to secure for sure all this stuff that's we've pushed online all right well I don't see any questions Joe thank you so much for spending this time with us and helping all of our Educators and I know that they are going to use much of what you went over and it's really going to help their students so thank you so much good luck in the New Year see you all soon all right bye everyone thank you [Music]