Cybersecurity Outreach and Awareness at CIC and Beyond by Griffin Higgins

"Cybersecurity Outreach and Awareness at CIC and Beyond" by Griffin Higgins, Software Developer & PHD Student, Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity with introduction and Q&A by Sumit Kundu.

While the Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity (CIC) has many areas it operates in from education to research and development, a lesser-known area it supports are its outreach and awareness activities that run year-round. In this talk we specifically highlight some of CIC's past #cybersecurity outreach and awareness activities, with specific focus on local middle school and high school students. To this, we also address some misconceptions of what cybersecurity outreach is and looks like in different settings. Additionally, we also recognize several organizations, both big and small, but equally important, that CIC collaborates with to help foster cybersecurity awareness within their immediate community and Canada at large. Lastly, we close with what a path in cybersecurity may look like for those interested in pursuing this important science.

Griffin Higgins is a PhD student in Computer Science at the University of New Brunswick (UNB) and Cybersecurity Software Developer at the Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity (CIC). Originally from Fredericton, Griffin completed his Bachelor of Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts in Sociology, and Master of Applied Cybersecurity + Research Intensive Cyber Knowledge Studies from UNB in 2020, 2021, and 2022, respectively. During his undergraduate studies, he distinguished himself as a Dean's Scholar and received the Douglas R. Pullman Prize in Sociology. Griffin also presented on his graduate cybersecurity capstone project: "Towards a Cyber Threat Intelligence Informed Risk Taxonomy: Rethinking MITRE ATT&CK Data Visualization", in collaboration with the TD Bank, as a keynote at the 19th International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust, Cybersecurity Industry Summit 2022. Cybersecurity outreach is also very important to Griffin who enjoys mentoring (and let's be honest, learning from) CyberTitan competitors as well as speaking with K-12 New Brunswick students interested in pursuing cybersecurity studies.

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