Georgia Southern Hosts Georgia Cyber Academy for afternoon of Cyber Training
Professor Frank Katz, Director of Georgia Southern’s Center for Applied Cyber Education (CACE) hosted students of the Georgia Cyber Academy both in person and virtually on September 12, 2023, for an afternoon of Cyber Training. Five students were present in person on Georgia Southern’s Armstrong Campus, and approximately 70 online students took part in the two hour presentation and interactive exercise.
Students were first presented with the fundamentals of cryptographic methods and then participated in solving various simple cryptographic exercises such as the encrypting and decrypting messages using the Caesar Cipher and the Vernam One-Time Pad.
The Georgia Cyber Academy is the State of Georgia’s official agency to connect home-schooled students with various resources and they provide academic standards for them.
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