CyberPatriot
CyberPatriot Overview
This segment highlights information pertaining to the CyberPatriot program. You will also be introduced to our show host Cherokee Boose and special guest Professor Steve Linthicum.
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[SOUND] Welcome ladies and gentlemen.
You've heard this term, Cyber Patriot, but
you might not understand all the details
associated with this program.
That's okay, because I'm going
to go ahead and help you out.
My name is Cherokee Boose and
I'll be acting as a show host
through the duration of these shows.
We also have a very special guest named
Professor Steve Linthecome travelling
all the way from California to go ahead
and help you with these training videos.
So let's go ahead and
give him a warm welcome here.
Welcome Steve.
Thank you very much.
And for you students out there,
one of the reasons why
I decided that this would be a great
idea to work on putting this together,
is I looked at the materials that you
had available to you from Cyber Patriot.
There were a whole series of slides,
and we're going to use those slides so
that we can present the materials in
a fashion that I think will be much
easier for you to absorb.
And I really want to thank ITProTV for
allowing me to come here and to provide
you with these materials because I think
it'll really benefit you as students.
So why don't we go over to
the slides that I prepared?
Now, that's just basically
the introductory slide.
But as we go through it, I want to comment
relative to what I call resource partners.
And they're a bunch of entities that
helped put this project together.
Obviously one of them is ITPROTV, but
we also have the CYBERPATRIOT program,
we're using their materials,
you're benefiting from what this
group of individuals has done.
They're sponsored by
the airforce association,
North of is a key sponsor associated
with them, we have NDG here,
NDG has a course that you're going to be
able to have free access to The will teach
you Linux principles and
I think it's really good.
There is incidentally with ITProTV,
you're also going to have access to
a free IT fundamentals course, which we go
through a little bit of networking here,
but we can't cover it all.
So you're gonna have access to that.
We got the Cisco Network Academy
that's providing you
access to their net academy program And
there are a whole
bunch of modules that your coach
is going to have you go through.
There.s Cyber Watch West,
that's a academic centre of
excellence based out of Washington.
They are a key participant.
We;ve got My College Sierra College
it's obviously a key participant and
the North by North Regional Consortium
my college is a member of that.
They've supported this effort.
And I really want to thank the California
Community College Chancellor's Office that
has provided funding for
this particular effort under
their doing what matters program.
So these are all key resource-
Looks like a lot of people really
care and are putting forth efforts to go
ahead and make this initiative happen.
And Steven I do appreciate
you thanking ITProTV.
But we'd like to thank you as well, and
thank all of the adults and participants,
the new students, as well, for doing this.
Because it's such a great opportunity to
really set you up for a better lifestyle.
And the reason it's going to set
you up for a better lifestyle is,
if you prefer to go down this career path.
As you go through here and
you learn cybersecurity.
If you think, boy,
this would be fun to do as a job.
I want to show you this next slide,
because I think it's really important.
This is a recent slide shot,
a screen shot.
Of the CyberSeek site.
You can go to it, it's at cyberseek.org.
It was funded by NIST,
which is the National Institute of,
what is it, Standards and Technology.
Technology.
Yeah, sometimes I want to say-
We have so many acronyms.
Yeah, they do.
And you guys will find that out.
[LAUGH]
They do, and
if you look at this slide
And
I pulled this last night
off of the Internet.
It indicates here in the lower
left hand corner that there
are currently in
the United States 348,975 jobs.
Overwhelming.
The workforce,
the totally employed workforce right now
is about three quarters of a million
People, now slightly over that.
But look at that.
all them are
You see that huge deficit there.
Yeah.
They're working all those 3 quarters of
a million are working and yet
we have vacancies in 300,
in almost 350,000 positions,
so there is a heck of
an opportunity here across the nation
relative to jobs out there.
And what we need,
is we need people in those jobs.
And you're well equipped to get there.
You go through the Cyber Patriot program,
perhaps go to a community
college like Sierra,
go through our training programs that are
tied to industry driven certifications.
And that's funny with cybersecurity and
with a lot of IT,
those industry driven certifications
are of utmost importance.
They prove to employers
that you know something.
They prove to employers
because to keep them,
you've got to continue
continuing education we call it.
Lifelong learners.
Yeah lifelong learners.
And so it's really important that you go
through and you achieve those objectives.
And what a great job this is.
The key elements of it with regard
to cybersecurity here, it's a bit of
a challenge for companies and for
governments to outsource cybersecurity.
Beyond the jurisdictional limits of
the courts of the United States.
The FBI can't chase you in Eastern Europe
very well if you do something wrong,
so the employers are going to want to
make sure you're from this country and
you're in this country
as you do your work.
Another great news about this job is
because so much of what you do is remote,
meaning you're going to remote into
systems, you don't necessarily
need to be in an office building, your
company's office building to do your work.
You might be working from home,
you might be working from the beach.
[LAUGH] There really are so many
benefits in working in IT, and personally
Personally,
I got into IT to really just
better my family's life, and
that's why I say it's possible for
you to do the same.
Because I didn't have a cyber
patriot program like this.
I really wish I did, because I am just so
impressed with the amount of resources
that you guys have available to you.
And here's the thing.
Even if you already don't have
a really solid knowledge base,
that's okay, because you have
a lot of tools at your disposal.
Right and a couple things I wanted
to cover briefly back on the slides.
The way that we've broken this out
generally is at the beginning of
each unit and I believe there are ten
units, you'll have the opening slide.
For example here it will identify
Unit One with its heading.
We will go through it and
we'll go through it and
do the standard sort of
learning objectives.
This is the way we teach today,
we identify the students
learning objectives and then we'll go
through and, so first here im telling you
what im going to teach you, then we'll go
through the modules and I'll teach it.
And then ultimately I'll remind you as to
what I've taught you, so that's kind of
the pattern were going to use
3 t's yea
Yea
And so here is, for example,
section one.
And at the end of each section, I mean,
at the end of each unit we're going to
go through and this is the final slide and
the purpose of this final slide is
I want this content to remain
Current.
And so I have set up a site and
I'll go to it here.
This is the link for it so make sure
you know that link and go and visit it.
This is the main page,this is
the Cyber Patriot learning content.
I've characterize it as center,
and I broken down each module so
that you can see what's there and
I've put in contents that's recent
That keeps you up to date
relative to each one of the modules.
So please go as you go
through these units,
make sure to check out that main page and
check out your unit and
see if there are any additional content
that I think is important for you to know.
Cool.
So I'm excited, I don't know if you
guys are, but let's go ahead and
jump into some of that content,
like Steve was just showing us.
We're gonna go ahead and
wrap up this introduction and
get ready, get comfortable.
We've got a lot of really great
information coming your way.
But for this particular segment, I'm
gonna go ahead and sign off as your host,
Cherokee Boose
And I'm Professor Steve Linthicum.
See you next time here for
CyberPatriot.
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Thank you for watching ITProTV.
Overview
CyberPatriot is an amazing free program. It is a National Youth Cyber Education Program with emphasis on the national competition. In this course you will be introduced to the program, competition and basic skills needed to compete. This course should be used as a supplement to tools provided by your Coach, Technical Mentor, and resources covered in these videos. There are a great deal resources available to prepare you. Please take advantage of them.
Learning Style
On Demand
Length of course
11h 21m
52 Episodes
Here are the topics we'll cover
- Introduction to CyberPatriot and cybersecurity
- Introduction to Online Safety
- Cyber Ethics
- Principles of Cybersecurity
- Computer Basics and Virtualization
- Microsoft Windows Basic and MSDN
- Microsoft Windows Security Tools
- Microsoft Windows Security Configuration
- Introduction to Linux and Ubuntu
- Ubuntu Security Configuration
Learning Options