GenCyber Camp @ The University of Nebraska at Omaha

Files in this repository are intended to provide step-by-step self paced tutorials to teachers seeking to learn about cybersecurity first principles as part of the UNO Gencyber camp. The strategy is to learn by doing. The overall theme is to develop components of a web application with cybersecurity first principles baked-in.

Camp Study Guides

The guides are organized by camp days and are available at the linked urls:

Day1: Development Environment and Client-side App Creation

1. Virtualization Primer
2. Github Primer
3. Client-side web app setup and development

• Sub-Unit 1: Ember Hello World and app bootstrapping
• Sub-Unit 2: App refinement and debugging
• Sub-Unit 3: Interfacing with external web APIs
• Sub-Unit 4: Separating Data and Logic layers
• Sub-Unit 5: Creating a good user experience
• Sub-Unit 6: Deployment to Github.io

Day 2: Server-side Application Creation

1. Server-side web app setup and development

• UNIT 1: Installing Apache and Django and configuring a dev. and production environment
• UNIT 2: Integrating the server-side and client-side
• UNIT 3: Adding authentication and sessions
• UNIT 4: Adding a user profile
• UNIT 5: Access control and permissions
• UNIT 6: Input filtering and API hardening

2. Server Hardening

• Firewalls

Day 3: Reducing Exposure: Training the Human and Cryptography

1. Avoiding Phishing

• Email Header Analysis
• URL Analysis

3. Avoiding Network Snooping

• Hands-on with Cryptography

Day 4: Teacher-Student group exercises

Module 1. Virtualization, Version Control and Collaboration

• Virtualization Primer
• Github Primer

Module 2. Server Hardening and Firewalls

• Firewalls

Module 3. Avoiding Phishing

• Email Header Analysis
• URL Analysis

Module 4. REST API Hardening

• Input filtering and API hardening

Evaluation Forms

• Student Evaluation Form
• Teacher Peer Evaluation Form
• Teacher Module Evaluation Form

Day 5: Capture the Flag Contest

1. Jeopardy style contest among student-teacher teams.

Self Exploration Kits

For teachers interested in self exploration of Maker/Hacker kits, several options are available. These are optional, advanced projects for camp participants.

1. WiFi Pineapple
2. Ubertooth
3. Alfa cards
4. YARD stick one
5. Circuit Playgrounds
6. Arduino WiFi Maker kits
7. Arduino Starter Kits
8. Little Bits Starter Kit
9. Little Bits Cloud Kit

Other Resources

NSA Day of Cyber
It is an interactive self-guided, and fully automated cybersecurity career experience and is free for all registrants for a year.

Contacts

Matt Hale
Assistant Professor of Information Assurance
University of Nebraska at Omaha

Robin Gandhi
Associate Professor of Information Assurance
University of Nebraska at Omaha

Abhishek Parakh
Assistant Professor of Information Assurance
University of Nebraska at Omaha

License

Gencyber web content.
Copyright (C) 2016 Dr. Matthew L. Hale

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.