CyAD 2025: Cybersecurity Across Disciplines Summit

The National Community College Cybersecurity Fellowship Program is bridging the gap in cybersecurity education by developing a pipeline of trained faculty. This session will showcase a proven model for recruiting and training cybersecurity students, industry professionals, and military personnel who want to give back by teaching in the classroom. Attendees will learn best practices in mentoring, professional development, and hands-on teaching assignments. This session will also provide an opportunity to hear from and connect with current fellows to explore how they can support your classes. Community college faculty across disciplines will learn how they can mentor and guide students in developing cybersecurity lessons tailored to their fields, helping to expand cybersecurity awareness across diverse sectors.

Curious about cybersecurity but not sure where to start? This session offers a beginner-friendly introduction to cybersecurity fundamentals and their applications across disciplines like healthcare, automotive, criminal justice, and the other Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) defined 16 critical infrastructure sectors.  Participants will explore real-world use cases through guided discussions and discover discipline-specific cybersecurity resources. Whether you’re an educator, industry professional, or simply cyber-curious, this session will provide the foundational knowledge to integrate cybersecurity concepts into your discipline or field; no hoodie required! 

As we advance toward the New Space Era, the space cybersecurity sector calls for deep, multidisciplinary research to stay ahead of evolving threats. To accomplish Space Cyber Resiliency, research must uncover the full scope of the attack surface and underlying technologies, enabling secure system design and architectural resilience. In doing so, practitioners strengthen essential cybersecurity skills—critical thinking, adaptive problem-solving, and geopolitical awareness—while learning to translate complexity into actionable solutions. Space research trains professionals to think strategically under uncertainty, refine threat modeling, and operate across domains. This talk explores how research at the edge of space not only supports national defense and commercial innovation, but also sharpens the mindset required for tomorrow’s cybersecurity leaders, transforming the sword of defense into the pen of research and innovation.

How are the concepts of deidentification and pseudonymization informed by data privacy regulations in different regions of the world, such as the United States and the European Union? What are the possible impacts of these regulatory requirements to the design, development, and deployment of artificial intelligence systems that are relevant to fields such as cybersecurity? And why are certain stakeholders asserting that it is key to ensure that cybersecurity education includes training related to data privacy?