Cybersecurity Awareness Month, with Nicole Bushong

The K12 Engineering Education Podcast

As part of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, cybersecurity engineer Nicole Bushong shares essential cybersecurity habits and tools for keeping organizations and individuals safe, as well as hot tips for getting into the many parts of this critical industry. Learn about data privacy, compliance, coding, hacking news, degrees and certifications, multi-factor authentication, and more.

Related to this episode:

• Cybersecurity and Being Human: https://k12engineering.net/episodes/80

• IR (incident response)

• Terraform: https://www.terraform.io/security

• GRC (governance, risk, and compliance)

• DevSecOps (development, security, and operations)

• Cybersecurity Awareness Month is October: https://www.cisa.gov/cybersecurity-awareness-month

• Cambridge Analytica scandal: https://www.wired.com/story/cambridge-analytica-facebook-privacy-awakening/

• DeSantis accused textbooks of ‘indoctrination.’ Here’s what he meant: https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/05/09/florida-banned-textbooks-math-desantis/

• Pen tester (penetration tester)

• Hack the Box: https://www.hackthebox.com/

• SANS courses: https://www.sans.org/cyber-security-courses/

• UK police arrest teenager suspected of Uber, GTA 6 hacks: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/09/15/uber-hack/

• KnowBe4 / Kevin Mitnick: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Mitnick

• GDPR: https://gdpr-info.eu/

• HouSecCon: https://www.linkedin.com/company/houseccon

• StaySafeOnline: https://staysafeonline.org/

• OWASP: https://owasp.org/

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