Cyber Day Registration
Saturday, April 6, 2019 | 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Cyber Day at the Mount gives high school students the chance to learn about the world of cybersecurity through a hands-on, workshop-style event. During the day, we'll have activities covering:
Hardware Workshop
You'll dismantle desktop and laptop computers, as well as smartphones, to see the similarities of their architecture and how their components are identical amongst all three platforms. You'll also learn how to fix and upgrade your personal laptops.
Hacking and Social Engineering
You'll learn the basics of guessing the most popular passwords, learn how to test the strength of your own passwords, look at your own social media profiles to identify risky information sharing issues, and how dictionary password attacks are conducted.
Evidence Search Competition
In small groups, you'll be provided with sample luggage of a suspected spy and have to plan how to search the luggage in less than five minutes to catch the smuggled information.
Cryptography
Through an activity with Caeser's Cypher, we'll discuss the importance of secrets in today’s world and then focus on a system for sending secret messages used by Julius Caesar around 100 B.C. You'll make a Caesar wheel used for encrypting and decrypting coded messages, learn how to crack the code without knowing the encryption key, and how to salt the code to make it far more difficult to guess.
You'll also meet professors, current students and members of the Mount's Cyber Defense Club who can answer all of your questions.
Parents
We also have sessions for you to learn about financial aid for college and how the admissions process works. You can even learn about your own personal information security from a Mount faculty member.