The week-long camp will take place from June 10 to 14 and will teach the fundamentals of ethical hacking, social engineering techniques, countermeasures and network defense.
TIFFIN, Ohio — Instead of bonfires, hikes and bunk beds at summer camp, some high school students will be learning how to defend against cyberattacks through one of the best cybersecurity programs in the country.
Tiffin University hosts a college-level cybersecurity bootcamp every year to see if other students are interested in the field, but now the university has decided to hold a summer camp version specifically for high school juniors and seniors.
“What we're really training our students to do is not only become familiar with these networks and cybersecurity practices, but to understand what a bad actor might want to do to exploit someone in that space,” said Sean Glieberman, executive director of Tiffin University's Cyber Defense Center.
The week-long camp will take place from June 10 to 14 and will teach the fundamentals of ethical hacking, social engineering techniques, countermeasures and network defense.
“We're hoping that going down the ethical hacking path will help them get that footing, and once they become students here (at Tiffin University), they can continue to be on the ethical hacking team, they can participate in the cyber center itself, and they can actually take a college-level cybersecurity boot camp,” Glieberman said.
Upon completing the camp, students will have the appropriate qualifications to pass the International Electronic Commerce Council certification exam.
Glieberman hopes the camp will inspire high school students and inspire the next generation of college students to study cybersecurity and ultimately become professionals.
“The kids get to actually see real-world operations,” he said. “This simulates an actual cyber operations center that the kids will see in the real world when they graduate.”
