{"id":19940,"date":"2020-08-10T08:47:09","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T12:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=19940"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:04:51","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:04:51","slug":"um-dearborns-blue-bytes-helping-students-build-cybersecurity-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2020\/08\/10\/um-dearborns-blue-bytes-helping-students-build-cybersecurity-skills\/","title":{"rendered":"UM-Dearborn\u2019s \u2018Blue Bytes\u2019 helping students build cybersecurity skills"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"686\" height=\"383\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-28-at-2.25.42-PM.png\" alt=\"(Graphic of three people, the one in the middle turned with their back to the camera, interspersed with graphics of a phone, a laptop, and a few keyboard keys.)\" class=\"wp-image-19941\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-28-at-2.25.42-PM.png 686w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-28-at-2.25.42-PM-300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-28-at-2.25.42-PM-200x112.png 200w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-28-at-2.25.42-PM-665x371.png 665w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 686px) 100vw, 686px\" \/><figcaption>(Violet Dashi)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Assistant professor of computer science <strong>Birhanu Eshete<\/strong> says he didn&#8217;t know what kind of response he\u2019d get when fellow professor <strong>Di Ma<\/strong> asked if he\u2019d try to get a student organization going to support their burgeoning cybersecurity program. So he started simple, sending out an email inquiry to gauge if there was any interest. Within a couple hours, he had seven responses from cybersecurity majors. <a href=\"https:\/\/umdearborn.edu\/news\/articles\/um-dearborns-blue-bytes-group-helping-students-build-their-arsenal-cybersecurity-skills\">In another week or so, Blue Bytes, UM-Dearborn&#8217;s first cybersecurity-focused student club, was officially a thing.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For Eshete, it&#8217;s all pretty satisfying to watch the students build-up their skills and coalesce so quickly into a tight-knit group. &#8220;It may sound surprising, but I also learn a lot from them,&#8221; Eshete says. &#8220;In our field, it\u2019s hard to keep track of new developments because cybersecurity is such a dynamic discipline. So the students may have exposure to techniques that I have never tried before, and in those cases, they teach me. That\u2019s a very good thing to do for any professor. You can teach as much as you know, based on your experience. But you\u2019re always learning \u2014 including from your students.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assistant professor of computer science Birhanu Eshete says he didn&#8217;t know what kind of response he\u2019d get when fellow professor Di Ma asked if he\u2019d try to get a student organization going to support their burgeoning cybersecurity program. So he started simple, sending out an email inquiry to gauge if there was any interest. Within a couple hours,\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2020\/08\/10\/um-dearborns-blue-bytes-helping-students-build-cybersecurity-skills\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[488,36,588],"class_list":["post-19940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-cybersecurity","tag-dearborn","tag-teaching"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-28-at-2.25.42-PM.png",686,383,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-28-at-2.25.42-PM-200x112.png",200,112,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-28-at-2.25.42-PM-300x167.png",300,167,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-28-at-2.25.42-PM.png",665,371,false],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-28-at-2.25.42-PM.png",600,335,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-28-at-2.25.42-PM.png",686,383,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-28-at-2.25.42-PM.png",686,383,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-28-at-2.25.42-PM-200x140.png",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-28-at-2.25.42-PM-60x42.png",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-28-at-2.25.42-PM-658x300.png",658,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-28-at-2.25.42-PM-665x371.png",665,371,true],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-28-at-2.25.42-PM.png",400,223,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Assistant professor of computer science Birhanu Eshete says he didn&#8217;t know what kind of response he\u2019d get when fellow professor Di Ma asked if he\u2019d try to get a student organization going to support their burgeoning cybersecurity program. 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