CAE Faculty Professional Development Workshops

Are you or one of your colleagues at a CAE institution looking for an opportunity to brush up, expand, or learn about teaching new topics? Join us for one or many of our FREE 2-day intensive train-the-trainer faculty development workshop hosted by Dakota State University!

Event Information

All participants are eligible for a $1,000 travel stipend to offset the costs of travel and lodging. Breakfast and lunch will be provided at no cost to the participants. Links regarding accommodations and venues will be sent once your registration is confirmed.

Topics available

AI in Cybersecurity

Offered in Palm Desert, San Antonio, and Las Vegas

This workshop introduces the latest advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and Large Language Models (LLM) and their role in the field of cybersecurity. While AI and ML can help detect and address potential threats, they can also be leveraged by malicious actors to create new risks. Moreover, the use of LLMs alongside automation can result in the production of large amounts of adversarial content. To better understand and combat such threats, the workshop will focus on creating both content-generating adversarial agents and anomaly detection agents. Attendees will explore how to modify each agent to outsmart the other, thereby gaining insights into the complex nature of cybersecurity.

Using Docker for Security Curriculum

Offered in Palm Desert, San Antonio, and Las Vegas

This course will explore containerization using Docker with a closing focus on how faculty can immediately use containers in their courses for new and existing labs. Broken down into palatable subtopics of history, usage on various platforms (desktop, K8s clusters, cloud, etc.), conversion of labs to utilize containers, ways to ease the transition from traditional VMs to containers in labs, research topics and additional tools to explore. Security and computer science focused faculty alike should find value and actionable tasks in this course for either research or lab generation.

Intro to Browser Exploitation

Offered in San Antonio and Baltimore

An introductory crash-course into modern browser exploitation in the context of Chrome and the V8 Javascript engine. Topics will include JS engine internals, exploitation primitives, JIT compiler bugs, and various approaches to achieving shellcode execution. Learners should have some prior software exploitation experience and be quite comfortable with C and assembly.

Intro to Software Exploitation

Offered in Las Vegas

A survey of software exploitation topics and techniques. We'll begin with plain old buffer overflows circa 1990, and then slowly add (and bypass!) several popular exploit mitigations, including stack cookies, DEP, and ASLR. Fuzzing and source code analysis may also be discussed. Learners should have some prior knowledge of C, Assembly, and Linux command line tools.

Malware Analysis

Offered in Palm Desert and Baltimore

The Malware Analysis training gives learners an opportunity to dive into analyzing malware delivery mechanisms, binaries, macros, obfuscation, and more! The hands-on training will provide live/real malware samples along with custom-built examples intended for use in a classroom. Attendees will work in both Linux and Windows environments to statically and dynamically analyze suspicious files utilizing various tools, including Python scripts, debuggers, disassemblers, etc. We will also develop and build some custom tools to speed up the analysis process and make a more efficient workflow. Participants should have experience in using Windows/Linux, running virtual machines, and basic programming or scripting know-how. A background in assembly and scripting is a plus but not strictly required.

Offensive Security/Penetration Testing

Offered in Palm Desert, San Antonio, and Las Vegas

This workshop will cover the theoretical and practical aspects of penetration testing. The course will follow current penetration testing methodologies including commonly used tools, techniques, and procedures. Hands-on labs will accompany an experiential-based approach, and the course will conclude with a capture the flag style event for participants to exercise their newly acquired skills in a simulated environment.

Introduction to Cyber Operations

Offered in San Antonio and Baltimore

How do you get young students engaged with Cyber Operations, Offensive Security, and Penetration testing when they don’t have the background? We’ll explore how to get basic concepts laid out that are engaging for students, but set the path for what they will see in the future as they get deeper into their studies of cyber security.

Threat Hunting

Offered in San Antonio and Las Vegas

Threat hunting is an essential part to an effective, proactive security program. By continually hunting for evidence of intrusion, organizations can detect and respond to malicious activity more quickly to minimize negative effects. In this course, students will learn practical threat hunting and applied incident response skills using both network and host based artifacts. Topics covered will include network traffic analysis, log analysis, memory analysis, registry analysis, and more. The course will include hands-on labs to give students experience with tools and techniques in threat hunting and applied incident response.

Wireless & Radio Signals

Offered in San Antonio

Wireless signals are all around us, from basic WIFI to garage door openers to our cellphones. In this workshop, we’ll take a look at how you can approach radio-frequency principles without needing to have an electrical engineering background in your classroom. From there, we’ll pivot to Wi-Fi security and touch on cellular communication labs that you can demo or work together with students in your class.