Train the Trainer

Train the Trainer Initiative

Application deadline is June 17th, 2025.

If you are interested, please contact us at viceroydecree-tdt@khoury.northeastern.edu.

July 15th to 19th of 2025

  • Tentative days:
    • On-line Presenations sessions: July 15-17 time TBD
    • On-line hands-on exercises: July 18-19 time TBD

-Objectives

  • Improve instructors capabilities in the design and implementation of Cybersecurity experiential learning activities for students.
  • Dissemination of DECREE cyber and EMS course content for incorporation into new and existing MSI and CC courses, including:
    • teaching materials,
    • hands-on labs, tools,
    • rubrics/assessment,
    • and low resource cloud-based lab deployment methods.

Requirements and benefits

  • Be instructor at a Community College or Minority Serving institution
  • Be security clearance eligible
  • Instructors will provide an academic plan to implement these learning activities in their classrooms.
  • Upto $1000 will be provide to attendees upon training completion and evidence of implementation in their courses.

Schedule

This is a 14 hours hybrid training activity to improve instructors capabilities in the design and implementation of Cybersecurity experiential learning activities.

Online Presentations

  • Day 1 Break into Cybersecurity and EMS (4 hours)

    • Introduction to cybersecurity
    • Cryptographic mechanisms
    • Network Security
    • Containerization techniques
    • Scripting for security

  • Day 2 Tools ( 4 hours)

    • Linux refresher
    • Openssl
    • Docker
    • Iptables
    • AWS/Azure/GCP

Online Hands-on Exercises

These online sessions are intended to provide 2 different cybersecurity hands-on exercises, that CC faculty can use into their courses. We will work on a different practical cybersecurity lab, starting with an online 3 hour session where the hands-on lab will be presented and discussed. Instructors will have the following days of the week to work on the lab and adapt them to their courses/students. As a result of this sessions, CC Faculty will elaborate an academic plan to implement this lab assignments in their clases.

  • Hands-on exercise 1: Password Cracking Lab (On line, 3 hours)
  • Hands-on Exercise 2: Dockerized Secure Web Server Configuration (On line, 3 hours)