Learn by Doing: Recognizing Student Accomplishments in a Student-Enabled Security Operations Center
Wednesday, May 04, 2022 | 11:45AM–12:45PM ET | Grand Ballroom VII-IX, 3rd Floor
Session Type:
Breakout Session
Delivery Format:
Presentation/Panel Session
According to numerous sources, the United States is experiencing a worker shortage in the cybersecurity field. To ensure our students have a leg up in the job hunt, it is the primary goal of the California Polytechnic State University's Information Security Office to ensure our students are ready and have a good start on filling their "security toolkit." Our hiring approach takes any student passionate about cybersecurity and trains them to be the university's first line of defense in our Security Operations Center. Using our university's learning philosophy of "Learn by Doing," we've developed a training program to get the students up to speed and secure the campus quickly. We have a formal mentoring program and acknowledge students' accomplishments through a home-grown badging program.
