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AFIT delivers ICE to Denmark

Posted Tuesday, December 07, 2021

 


Faculty from the Air Force Institute of Technology’s School of Strategic Force Studies traveled to Copenhagen, Denmark to teach the International Cyber Education course to 16 coalition partners from Denmark and Norway in the fall of 2021. (Contributed Photo)




Faculty from the Air Force Institute of Technology’s School of Strategic Force Studies traveled to Copenhagen, Denmark to teach the International Cyber Education course to 16 coalition partners from Denmark and Norway in the fall of 2021. This is the third offering of the course to Denmark, including one offering at AFIT’s campus on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio.

The ICE course is offered to international professionals transitioning from tactical to operational level cyberspace responsibilities focused on design, development, and systems acquisition. The professional development course is designed to take a holistic approach to cyberspace systems – identifying which pieces are critical, determining vulnerabilities and impacts if taken down by a cyber-attack, and employing offensive and defensive cyber actions to defend the system.

“Our goal in this course is to teach how cyber fits into the bigger picture with other domains – to understand the overall process,” said MSgt Nicholas Schopperth, manager for the SoSFS’s cyber professional continuing education courses.

During simulation exercises, the students work through an anatomy of attack. “It’s basically a capture the flag exercise,” explained Schopperth.

“It starts with information gathering, what we would call passive reconnaissance, looking at websites or other open sources of information, followed by active reconnaissance, or enumeration, where we actually go out and look for open doorways or vulnerabilities in their networks,” said Schopperth. “That intel is then used to help the students with defensive actions where they run exploits against different systems, run network traffic analysis to identify malicious actions and install fire walls.” The exercises culminates in a capstone project developing a recommended course of action based on the exercises.

The course provides international partners an opportunity to receive cyberspace education they wouldn’t normally have access to due to security restrictions. Adjusting the curriculum provides SoSFS instructors the ability to deliver similar content to the students allowing for security cooperation and enhancement of strategic partnerships.

Teaching the course to international students provides a new perspective to the faculty. “It gives us different talking points that we can bring back to the U.S. on topics such as Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation law,” said Schopperth.

"Through dialog with our coalition partners, both students and faculty gain new perspectives when thinking about problems in the cyberspace domain," said Lt. Col. Kaitlin Kenny, director of SoSFS’s cyber professional continuing education.

The School of Strategic Force Studies is one of four schools that comprise the Air Force Institute of Technology. The SoSFS is responsible for delivering professional continuing education in nuclear deterrence policy and theory, nuclear command, control and communication, and cyberspace operations. For more information visit: www.afit.edu/EX

 

 

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