The ASD work experience program is for Year 11–12 students at the Australian Cyber Security Centre. The program focuses on students who are considering further studies in a STEM-related field.

The week-long program offers you an opportunity to extend your knowledge and skills through practical challenges. Scenarios could include:

• identifying security intrusions on a computer system
• learning how to identify email compromises
• learning to monitor network traffic to detect exploits
• learning how to conduct forensic examinations of hard drives
• learning about web application vulnerabilities
• learning modern encryption methods
• learning about different types of encryption and how they protect data
• using open-source software to recover keys and encrypt and decrypt data
• learning about geospatial analysis and how to use geospatial tools for imagery analysis
• engineering hardware and software solutions for security problems
• robotics programming using Arduinos
• construction of Arduino electrical circuits.