Net-Sec Team at CSUMB

Otters, hackers, friends, and professionals– Hope you all had a wonderful, restful and productive summer! I want to take a quick look back on what the Network Security Team has been able to accomplish this last year for Fall 2021 and Spring 2022 semesters. It was a unique experience transitioning from lockdown and virtual-only to now Hybrid and in-person meetings. It would not have been possible without the teamwork of officers, members and friends.  Together, we held meetings, hosted workshops, invited industry guests, competed in CTFs and traveled coast to valley for various events to learn more about technology and cybersecurity. This club is still relatively new, but this will be its fourth semester of existence, and the alumni support is strong with a great desire and drive to continue the success of this Network Security Team.  As a cybersecurity community it’s important to keep our network strong while continuing to improve our competency and knowledge of technology, de...

The following is an overview of current officers for the Network Security Team for the Fall Semester of 2022 as well as the opportunities and events we have in store. The list is tentative, and subject to more additions. Events Tabling Event Weekly Meeting starting August 26th, and every recurring every Friday, 3pm-4pm OSU Room 308 Current Officers President: Justin Nguyen Vice-President: Nawied Amin Secretary: Sebastian Vera Treasurer: Ignacio Gramajo ICC Council: TBD New Positions Social Media Manager/Public Relations  MyRaft, Blog, Discord  Discord Admin(s) Meeting Room Technician Workshops Bug Bounty Hunting -- Freelance Penetration Testing Introduction to Radio Frequency -- Fun with WiFi Pineapples Dealing with Confidentiality as a Student Professional … More workshops from Officers Pending  Guest Speakers NCL Representatives (requested) MBSOC (requested) Request a CISA Speaker  (CISSP related) - not yet started CTFs National Cyber League NCL Fall Season Registr...

Cody Todd comes back to CSUMB as a guest speaker to talk about entering the workforce and life after graduation. 

Here is some slides from a workshop that we did involving learning about leadership styles and having fun with some team building games. There are multiple styles of and theories of leadership, but here are a few that we've found useful. The better part of this workshop though were the activities that followed it. You see training people to be leaders isn't as straight forward a task like training a manager might be, so rather than just lecturing all day the real goal was to have a series of activities that help develop leadership skill by doing them. It also helps that it's fun to do it this way! The slides have more than the video It's interesting that my post on Leadership Training seems to consistently get views vs this one on Leadership Development. I'm guessing it's because of the topic title & the fact that i've written a description. (So let's update this post and see what happens). Might as well add my Officer Management slides developed for...