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Center for Cybersecurity leadership helps Scouts earn Cybersecurity Merit Badge

Hundreds of scouts from multiple states attended a Center for Cybersecurity sponsored event to earn their Cybersecurity Merit Badge

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Director of Miami University Center for Cybersecurity James Walden engages with scouts at the Cybersecurity Merit Badge event at the US Air Force Museum in Dayton, Ohio.
Miami University's Center for Cybersecurity was this year's Firewall Level Sponsor for Cybersecurity Merit Badge Day at the National Museum of the U.S. Airforce. This event was organized by Scouting America (Tecumseh and Miami Value Councils) and welcomed over 400 scouts pursuing a merit badge specifically around cybersecurity topics.
Oxford and Beyond

Center for Cybersecurity leadership helps Scouts earn Cybersecurity Merit Badge

Miami University's Center for Cybersecurity was this year's Firewall Level Sponsor for Cybersecurity Merit Badge Day at the National Museum of the U.S. Airforce. This event was organized by Scouting America (Tecumseh and Miami Value Councils) and welcomed over 400 scouts pursuing a merit badge specifically around cybersecurity topics.
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Representatives from Miami University's Center for Cybersecurity traveled to the National Air Force Museum in Dayton, Ohio on Saturday, December 13 to take part in the Cybersecurity Merit Badge Day. Assistant Professor of Computer Science Honglu Jiang, Professor and Chair of the Computer and Information Technology Department at Miami University Regionals Marianne Murphy, Professor and Director of the Miami University Center for Cybersecurity James Walden, and junior Computer Science major at the College of Engineering and Computing Tyler Stephenson were all on hand to engage with the next generation of future cybersecurity professionals attending the event. In a presentation to the assembled scouts, James Walden shared insights on why cybersecurity matters, attributes of cyber attacks, frameworks for cyber defense, and Miami University's Cybersecurity mission.

Learn more about the event in this article published in Dayton Daily.

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