2nd Annual Virginia Cybersecurity Education Conference

Welcome! Dr. David Raymond, the Virginia Cyber Range's Director, will introduce Dr. S. David Wu, GMU's Provost and Executive Vice President, who will welcome all attendees to the campus of George Mason University. Dr. Raymond will provide an overview of the conference and let attendees know what to expect in the next 2 days.

As with most things in the Security realm, before you can defend against attacks, you need to understand how the attackers work before you can defend and mitigate against them.

This invaluable hands on (BYO Laptop) workshop will showcase some new Cyber Range college/intermediate level penetration testing labs that the Cyber Range is in the process of publishing for instructor general availability. Come experience some of this powerful hands on content as you use your Range Kali attack VM and vulnerable target Windows VM to grok how these attacks actually function. After learning how to utilize these tools to pentest our own systems, we find ourselves in a better place to discuss the measures one would need to take to prevent or mitigate against such attacks and in the process, increase our own network security profile

Workshop Labs and Handouts Include:
- Lab 1 - Launching & Defending Against a Windows DoS Attack
- Lab 2 - Password Credential Keylogging
- Lab 3 - Trojan Malware - popping a reverse shell on a target

If done well, a capture-the-flag (CTF) competition is an educational experience disguised as a competition. It’s hard not to get excited after teaching yourself a new skill, finding a flag, then being rewarded with CTF points. Bring your laptop! In this workshop, we will introduce different types of CTF competitions and describe how we have used them with students and IT professionals to drive interest and enhance learning in cybersecurity topics. You will also learn how to approach different types of CTF challenges and the tools you can use to solve them. You might even get some hints related to the conference CTF!