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By
Dr. Iman Almomani
SEL Lab leader

School Awareness Workshop

Online Cybersecurity Awareness Workshop

The Cybersecurity club at the female Aala Alkhyaer. The aim of the Security
side, under the supervision of Security Awareness workshop was to educate the
Engineering Lab (SEL), has concluded an school’s teachers and students on risk
online Cybersecurity Awareness Workshop
at Al-Rowad Private High Schools (female awareness, a positive attitude to security
section) as part of the community service. and privacy and becoming acquainted with
The workshop conducted on Saturday, relevant subjects. Figure 1 shows the main
24th Oct, by our Research Engineer, Ms. topics covered in the workshop.

Figure 3 :Decrypting a cipher message using the Caesar Cipher algorithm challenge

To measure the level of understanding and compete among each other. Figure
of the covered topics, the students were 4 shows some screenshots of the
asked to play an online game. The game competition and the results. Following the
was designed in a competition theme to competition, all the challenges involved
encourage the students to participate have been discussed with the students.

Figure 1 :The main topics covered in the workshop

Furthermore, the workshop focused on to improve the cybersecurity services and
emphasizing the significant efforts of solutions. Figure 2 shows the main points
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to establish a covered in the workshop regarding the
strong cybersecurity infrastructure and Saudi Cybersecurity.

Figure 4 : Some screenshots of the competition

The workshop was designed to target both students
(%63) and teachers (%37) as shown in Figure

Figure 5: The overall distribution
of the workshop attendees

Figure 2 :The main points covered in the workshop regarding the Saudi Cybersecurity

The workshops consisted of an interactive the most common threats in the field of
session and other methods, such as Cybersecurity.
presentation, video, and a digital game. At the end of practical section of the
This workshop showed the teachers and workshop, the students were asked to solve
students how it is easy to be attacked, to
get valuable information from published a challenge on decrypting a cipher message
information on social media accounts, such using the Caesar Cipher algorithm. Once the
as their tweets, pictures on Instagram, student solved the challenge, they received
and how they make themselves easy “GREAT HACKER” message as displayed in
targets to hackers. Finally, it presented Figure 3.