It’s Defense Against the Dark Arts! - featuring guests Thomas Weeks and Ilana Payne

How is it possible to understand the ‘dark arts’ of how hackers take your information or to practice essential cyber skills? Cyber ranges! As well as some clever Capture the Flag (CTF) challenges of course!

In this episode, we’ll talk about practicing cyber “on-the-range” and learning a little bit about how to secure our own systems. Our guests will share their points of view on the merits of cyber ranges as well as how Virginia is mobilizing to bring more schools and kids to participate in the cyber pipeline. We’ll also talk about what sorts of skills you need to get into doing cybersecurity and how anyone at any level shouldn’t be afraid to learn the ropes; or at least some Linux…

For this week’s Episode Challenge, the Virginia Cyberrange has generously allowed us the use of one of their sites for a fun web challenge that’s not too much of a ‘sekret’. Even if you don’t uncover the answer this week, you’ll be able to observe some fun ways to hide information on websites.

Find this episode’s Challenge at www.cryptologicfoundation.org/podcast