Cybersecurity Summer Camp

Monday, June 3 – Friday, June 7, 2024
9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
In-person or online

Middle school and high school students will be equipped with fundamental system and cybersecurity knowledge and abilities/skills of detecting/diagnosing/fixing vulnerabilities of computing systems and applications.

Topics

• Fundamental Operating System (OS) principles, security,vulnerability detection & mitigation and hardening and securing of OS: via Virtual Machine OS images including Windows and Ubuntu running within a VMware player.
• Fundamental networking principles, network security, vulnerability detection and mitigation: including creating, configuring, fixing and securing full/complex networks (routers, switches, gateways, servers, LAN, WAN, etc.) via Cisco Packet Tracer simulation platform.

Cost

Free to all students thanks to a National Science Foundation grant. Lunch is provided for in-person students.

Computer requirements

Students must provide their own computer with the following minimum specifications:

• Each computer must be able to run VMware Workstation Player 17.0.2.
• Processors (made 2011 and after)
  Intel: 64-bit i3 processor of the generation "Sandy Bridge" or better or AMD: 64-bit processor of the generation "Bulldozer" or better
• Virtual Extensions: Virtualization technology/extensions (e.g., VT-x, Vx) must be ENABLED in BIOS
• RAM. 8 GB of RAM.
• Disk Space. 40 GB of free disk space
• Display. XGA (1280x768) or higher display / 1280x1024 recommended

In-person location and parking

Informatics and Communications Technology Complex
535 W. Michigan Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202

Parking will be validated for visitors who park in the Gateway Garage (525 N. Blackford Street, Indianapolis, IN 46202).

May 20, 2024 is the deadline to register.

The camp is limited to 25 in-person students. There is no limit to the number of online students.

The in-person option is sold out. You can still register for the online option.