"Cyber Fire Puzzles Presents Real-Life Cyber Security Challenges to Develop Students' Cyber Defense Skills"
On August 19-20, nearly 60 students were presented with cybersecurity challenges through puzzles to develop skills essential to practitioners. Cyber Fire Puzzles is hosted by the Auburn University/Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Cyber Security Sciences Institute (CSSI), the Auburn Cyber Research Center (ACRC), and the Auburn University Ethical Hacking Club (AUEHC). It helps prepare college students for future cyber defense workforce needs. Engineering, business, sciences, and mathematics participants worked in teams, discussed calculations, and solved code-cracking puzzles designed by LANL. Students were led through binaries and malicious programs, reconstructing the hierarchical file structure of hard drives and more. This article continues to discuss the Cyber Fire Puzzles event.