Education Initiative Spotlight: CSAW Summer Program for Women

Summary: Trail of Bits sponsored the CSAW Summer Program for High School Women at NYU-Poly, a two-week program led by Industry Professor Linda Sellie in which teenage women from the New York City area learn cryptography, databases, computation, and networking through lectures and hands-on exercises breaking codes, hacking databases, and working a digital forensics mystery. Trail of Bits' Dan Guido and NYU-Poly Computer Science and Engineering Department Head Nasir Memon taught an overview of computers and cyber security careers, after which students worked the first level of Matasano's MicroCorruption challenge; the first session ran July 7-18 and a second runs through August 8.
Bottom line: The program's stated aim is to expose young women to female role models and mentors so they see computer science as a viable career - a pipeline question for a field that already struggles to fill security roles.

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