Clark Center Cybersecurity Curriculum Resources
July 21, 2023
9am PST
Looking for free cybersecurity curriculum to upgrade your course?
Join us to learn more about the amazing, free cybersecurity curriculum available on CLARK. There are over 1,170 learning objects on the platform. The presenters will be giving a tour and demo of the platform.
CLARK is a platform for BUILDING and sharing free cybersecurity curriculum. CLARK hosts the largest compilation of high-value, high-impact CYBERSECURITY curriculum created by top researchers, peer-reviewed by instructional designers and subject matter experts. Instructors looking to teach new cybersecurity COURSES or expand and improve their own instruction can find ready-to-use modular content, including videos, labs, and slides that can be modified under the Creative Commons license.
Who should attend:
Faculty, teachers, instructors, and curriculum planners.
Presenters:
Sid Kaza skaza@towson.edu
Sidd Kaza is the Associate Provost for Research at Towson University. His interests lie in cybersecurity, data mining, and application development. He is a principal investigator on several cybersecurity projects, including the University's Cyber4All. He was on the ACM/IEEE/AIS/IFIP Joint Global Task Force on Cybersecurity Education that produced the first four-year cybersecurity curricular guidelines. Kaza is Co-Executive Director and Co-Founder of SecurEd, a not-for-profit startup organization focused on helping academic institutions build a cyber-ready workforce. One of SecurEd’s premier products is CLARK, which provides free cybersecurity curricula and resources across K-12.
Blair Taylor btaylor@towson.edu
Blair Taylor is the Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary and Innovation Cybersecurity (Cyber4All) at Towson University. She is a national expert in cybersecurity education and worked with NSA’s College of Cyber as a Subject Matter Expert on long-term strategies to increase the pipeline of qualified students and build the nation’s cyber workforce. Her projects include Security Injections @ Towson, which provides security modules for integrating security across the curriculum and is a national model for teaching secure coding to introductory programming students; CLARK, a library of over 1000 free cybersecurity curriculum resources, and SPLASH, which offers Secure Programming Logic for college credit to high school girls.
Paige Zaleppa paige.zaleppa@secured.team
Paige Zaleppa is the Director of Operations at SecurEd Inc. where she coordinates the software development and content curation processes for two cybersecurity education products. She has worked in cybersecurity education for 4 years as a software developer and product manager. Zaleppa is passionate about cyber education and is an adjunct professor at Towson University. She received her Bachelor’s in Information Systems and Master’s in Computer Science from Towson University.
NCyTE is funded by the National Science Foundation grant #2054724.
Join us to learn more about the amazing, free cybersecurity curriculum available on CLARK. There are sixteen collections with over 1,170 learning objects on the platform. The presenters will give a tour and demo of the platform.