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Dr. Iman Almomani, SEL leader

Under the supervision of the Security Engineering Lab (SEL),
the Cybersecurity club would like to announce semester 192
CALENDAR.
Various of exciting events will be conducted as follows:

Women in Cybersecurity Talk (19th Feb)
The aim of this security talk is to promote the awareness
of security and to represent the recent technologies in The part concludes February’s activities after running two
Cybersecurity field. successful events. The main highlights of each event are:
Security Awareness Workshop (25th Feb) Women in Cybersecurity Talk
The aim of the Security Awareness workshop is to educate Conducted on Wed, 19th of Fe, by Dr Moudhi Aljamea
the high school’s teachers and students on the risks and best The aim of this security talk is to promote the awareness
practices regarding the Cybersecurity field. of security and to represent the recent technologies
and initiatives offered by STC to our students. The talk is
Cybersecurity Booth (2nd Mar) presented by Dr Moudhi Aljamea. Dr Moudhi is the new
As part of the Cybersecurity awareness, Cybersecurity club GM of the ICT School at STC Academy - becoming the first
will participate in Women in Data Science (WiDS) forum Saudi woman to occupy an executive position at one of
organized by Prince Sultan University (PSU). The booth will Saudi Arabia's largest companies. Dr Aljamea has a PhD in
be located in a high traffic area of the university. The booth computer security. This talk aims to inspire many female
will be staffed by our club members. Through this booth, students to work in the field of cybersecurity.
people will have a better understanding of CYS club missions
and services by interacting with club members. This will Cybersecurity Awareness Workshop
encourage them to register and join our club. I addition to the Conducted on Tues, 25th Feb, by Ms. Ghada Alomran and
promotion of the club, this booth will allow us to introduce Ms. Aala Alkhyaer.
the field of security and its importance. We will try to attract As part of the community service, the Cybersecurity
the audiences by presenting many real life scenarios that club conducted a Cybersecurity Awareness Workshop
address the threat of different security attacks. Additionally, at “Rwad Alomara” high school. The aim of the Security
we will utilize this opportunity to offer different security tips Awareness workshop is to educate the school’s teachers
that could help normal people to protect their machines and and students on risk awareness, a positive attitude
data and provide them with some advices to secure them to security and privacy and becoming acquainted
from becoming victims to social engineering attacks. with relevant subjects. The workshops consist of
short interactive session and other methods, such as
Field Trip (31st Mar) presentation, video, and a digital quiz.
Cybersecurity club will have the opportunity to visit CISCO The purpose of this workshop is to show teachers and
company’s office. Our students will meet the company’s students (a) how it is easy to be attacked, (b) how to
security and networking professionals while performing get valuable information from published information on
a variety of activities. CISCO team will prepare a one-day social media accounts, such as their tweets & pictures
agenda to present cisco security solutions and brief the on Instagram, and (c) how they make themselves easy
students with their latest technologies and certifications in targets to hackers. Additionally, the most common
the field of cybersecurity. threats in the field of Cybersecurity were presented. 24
teachers and students attended this workshop, students
from different grades; 58% from 11th grade, 15% 10th
PSU CTF Competition (2nd April) grade, 15% 12th grade and 12% teachers, as shown in
In cooperation with Cybersecurity club, Cyber Talents
Company will host a one day competition between PSU Figure 1.
students in April 2020. Cyber Talents is a platform that ranks
cyber security talents across the globe according to their Overall, the workshop helped the students as well as
teachers to be familiarized with the basic concepts of
skills in different cyber security categories through Capture cybersecurity. The feedback about the workshop was
the Flag Contests in order to be hired by recruiters. They
have hosted many CTFs competitions targeting participants extremely positive, some of the feedback was:
ranging from university students to industry professionals
in more than 15 countries including Saudi Arabia, Egypt, هيوس� لآا دونعلا /أا .ةعئار نم ثركأا ةرش�امح ركش� فلأا
UAE, Oman, Jordan, Morocco, Kuwait, Algeria, Singapore تلؤواش�تلا نم يرثكلا نع تباجأاو يهابتنا تراثأا ةزيممو ةقئاش� ةرود���لا
and more. They will organize the coming Saudi National CTF ةبلاطلا .اًيرثك تدفتش�ا ،ةرود���لا هذه في مهاش� نم ركش�أا ،ي���غامد في
competition. .يريخلا ىس�وم ليس�أا
The objective of this competition is to enable PSU students س�يودلا قوس� ةبلاطلا .ديفم ش�ش�ختو ةليمج ةرش�امح
to learn new skills, give them hands-on experience and help حلس�م فــهر ةبلاطلا .ةر���م اًر���كش� ،تدفتش�او ة���ليمج ةر���م ةرود���لا
them practice different cybersecurity topics. The competition يبرحلا
will enable our students to get familiar with the national CTF
competition platform. Moreover, SEL team will have the
experience of launching and organizing CTF competitions. sel@psu.edu.sa PSU_SEL
Prizes: Qualified Team will be nominated to represent PSU in cysclub@psu.edu.sa @CYS_PSU Figure 1. School teachers and students’ distribution
the Saudi Arabia Universities CTF.