AccessData Conducts Digital Forensics Lab During Cybersecurity Camp for Girls at Dakota State University
Summary
Guests included the Governor of South Dakota Kristi Noem, representatives from the U.S. State Department, Paraben Corporation, Citibank, SBS CyberSecurity and AccessData.” One of the workshops was led by AccessData’s Justin Tolman, a digital forensics expert, who illustrated for the girls how easy it is to recover digital images they thought were deleted from their phones or social media accounts. One attendee said, “Hacking is pretty cool, but after I learned how to recover digital pictures and files, forensics is way better.” Another camper commented that “the camp taught me how deep the field of cybersecurity is. DSU has a broad national reputation for providing a dynamic, technology-rich learning and research environment for its students, and for others through outreach programs such as the GenCyber camps. This year’s Girls in CybHER Security Camp at DSU was sponsored by the NSA and the NSF; additional sponsorship was provided by Citibank, the U.S. State Department, AT&T and SBS CyberSecurity. DSU has a special focus on the development, application, implications, and impacts of computing, information technologies and cyber security in all areas of human endeavor.