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Recent hardware quote for Cisco Networking Academies - Sep 2023

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Cybersecurity Challenges & Hackathons at Thomas More and Odisee University - Oct 2023

Facilitated by the ETTCS Erasmus+ Project and by Cisco SkillsForAll, BiASC organized a student hackathon with a challenging student final on 20 October 2023. The winning students are from Thomas More University of Applied Sciences based in Geel, Antwerp, Belgium: Bjorn Van Den Dungen and Sooi Vervloessem.

In Antwerp the Hackathon was facilitated by Gunther Van Landeghem en Liesbeth Kenens. In Brussels, it was Guido Van De Velde taking care of the organization. The students in Brussels are from Odisee University of Applied Sciences. In Wallonia the IFAPME competence center of Charleroi took part facilitated by Bob Mulumba. 

BiASC is ready to facilitate more student hackathons and takes part intensively with the European Cybercup Challenge by Cisco SkillsForAll.

If you are a Cybersecurity teacher, please reach out to Yvan Rooseleer <[email protected]> for more information.

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ETTCS Empowering Teachers to Trigger Cybersecurity at School
Best practices and complementary content for cybersecurity instructors, created by experienced teachers
Erasmus+ KA2 Strategic Partnership Project
Grant Agreement Number: 2021-1-IT02-KA220-SCH-000027136

Europe North Instructor Training 2023-2024

For the seventh time, the Belgian IT Academy Association & Support Center is involved in the Europe North Instructor Training organized throughout the academic year 2023-2024. For all members the online training will be in the form of interactive webinars.

The first session of each track giving an overview and a planning is planned in the week of 30 October. After registration you will receive all the necessary details to join your training session. More than 500 participants from the Benelux, the Scandinavian countries and the Baltic states have been invited . It is important to enroll as soon as possible. The main input from the BiASC instructor trainers are the Cybersecurity tracks, the Networking tracks and the Infrastructure Automation tracks.

Individual Instructor Registration: hyperlink

Overview of the options

Liste des cours en ligne sur "SkillsForAll"

Depuis plus de 25 ans, la plateforme d'apprentissage en ligne Cisco Networking Academy propose divers cours et certifications en matière de réseaux, de cybersécurité, de programmation et d'autres compétences informatiques. L'année dernière, la nouvelle plateforme skillsforall.com a été lancée. Elle contient désormais des dizaines de cours, tant pour les débutants que pour les professionnels de l'informatique de niveau intermédiaire.

Dans cet article, vous trouverez un aperçu de l'ensemble de l'offre de Skillsforall. Cliquez sur le nom du cours pour plus d'informations. Inscrivez-vous en cliquant sur "Démarrer".

Si vous souhaitez travailler avec Skillsforall au sein d'une école ou d'un institut de formation, veuillez nous contacter.

Si vous êtes un enseignant qui débute avec la plateforme Skillsforall, vous pouvez créer une classe avec les mêmes fonctionnalités que celles auxquelles vous êtes habitué sur la plateforme netacad.com.

Improving the Way People Learn with Extended Learning

Since the Covid Pandemic the world of education has quickly evolved into new ways of teaching and learning. All education has been challenged in terms of spaces, technology, tools, methods, human resources and skills.

Even in difficult circumstances many educators have shown examples that are improving education.

The XL Project funded by the European Commission intends to pick out the best ideas pointing at positive uses of technology to improve the way people learn.

Project Website: Hyperlink

Project Presentation

• Slides: Hyperlink
• Pictures of the presentation: Hyperlink

If you have questions or remarks, please get in touch by email with <[email protected]>

Cybersecurity Made in Belgium

Agoria and its executive sponsors, the Ministry of Defense and the Centre for Cyber Security Belgium (CCB), conducted the first-ever socio-economic study on the cyber security sector in Belgium. Verrry interesting ...

Hyperlink Report: https://www.agoria.be/en/digitisation/cybersecurity/whitepaper-first-socio-economic-study-on-the-cyber-security-sector-in-belgium

Cisco Talent Connect Event TCE22 Video & Pics

Creating a natural flow from internship to employment for IT students

YouTube (2 min): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoyxBdx5YLY

YouTube (45 sec): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1tdC6O71Rw
YouTube (30 sec): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_0PPSub0Xw&t=0s
YouTube (30 sec v2): https://youtu.be/7aqR-K2jk-o

Google Photos: https://photos.app.goo.gl/kfCc2ehpLe1JZj518

Een dag in het leven van een NetAcad afgestudeerde (WTV/ VDAB/ HOWEST)

De tv-zender Focus WTV maakte in samenwerking met VDAB een relevante reportage met Jasper Dhoest, een afgestudeerde Networking Academy student van Howest. De oudstudent houdt zich bezig met de problematiek van security. Jurgen Lamsens is een instructeur bij VDAB die meewerkt aan deze video. Er is een korte reclameboodschap toegevoegd om de reportage gratis te kunnen bekijken.

 

Cisco NetAcad Talent Connect Event 22

From challenging internships to rewarding jobs

On 27 October 2022, BiASC and Cisco organised a Talent Connect Event (TCE) for college students in IT infrastructure, networking, and security. The goal is to informally connect students with channel partners offering internships and jobs. Most of the students attending are bachelor's degree students. An equal number are pursuing associate degrees in systems and network administration. There were also a number of master's students and adult education students.

Interesting and challenging internships in IT infrastructure, networks and security are hard to come by for IT students in their last year before graduation. Yet all IT students are able to sign an employment contract for a rewarding job before they graduate.

Wouldn't it be a great idea to create a natural flow from internship to employment? This is the main goal of the Talent Connect event organised by Cisco BeLux, Cisco CXC and Cisco Networking Academy at Cisco headquarters in Machelen/Diegem near Brussels.

About 90 students registered for the Talent Connect event. Most of the participants are interested in an internship before the end of their studies. Fifteen participants are specifically interested in a thesis project.

Practical Information - Cisco Talent Connection Event - 27 October 2022

If you haven't done so, you can ENROLL via the registration form here

Here is concrete information about the Talent Connection Event on 27 October 2022 for NetAcad students from higher education.

• Every member Networking Academy is able to delegate six students per study program to take part in the event. The students selected should be interested in IT infrastructure, Networks and Cyber Security. 
• The event takes place on 27 October between 9 am and 4 pm. 
• The event location is the Cisco Belux Office and the Cisco TAC Building. All participants will be able to experience the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) and the Customer Experience Center (CXC).
• Students will be able to interact with Cisco Channel Partners offering internships, student projects or jobs in IT infrastructure, Networks and Cyber Security.
• Participating students should be in the final phase before graduation and preparing for CCNA certification, CyperOps or DevASC.
• Channel partners are particularly interested in students with DevNet skills.
• Lunch and drinks are included.

Event Location

• Cisco Diegem Offices, De Kleetlaan 6, 1831 Machelen, Belgium.
  Use the main entrance.
• Part of the event is in the Customer Experience Center (CXC) Building behind the main office building.

Tips for students before registering

• Update your LinkedIn profile
  Cisco Channel Partners will check your profile when preparing for the event
• Think about a convincing personal motivation
  Cisco Channel Partners will be more interested for persons with a personal motivation

Adult Retraining and Upskilling Programs

• A similar event for persons in adult retraining and upskilling programs will be organized in April or May 2023.

Proximus and Howest to create 5G lab for companies and industry partners

Proximus and Howest signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) today for the creation of a 5G lab on the Howest campus of Kortrijk. In the course of the next academic year, companies from various sectors will be able to discover the possibilities of 5G for their business and develop new applications, in collaboration with Howest students and under the guidance of Proximus experts.

Howest en Proximus realiseren 5G-lab

5G biedt nieuwe mogelijkheden voor de campus
Howest en Proximus realiseren samen een 5G-lab op de Howestcampus in Kortrijk. In de loop van volgend academiejaar zullen bedrijven uit uiteenlopende sectoren er, in samenwerking met de Howeststudenten en onder begeleiding van Proximus-experten, de mogelijkheden van 5G voor hun business kunnen ontdekken en nieuwe toepassingen kunnen ontwikkelen.

Het is de eerste keer dat Proximus samenwerkt op basis van een MOU met een onderwijsinstantie als co-creatiehub. 

Op de campus Kortrijk heeft Howest een 5G MPN (mobile private network). Er zijn vijf  lokalen voorzien van een 5G antenne (4xMIMO). De project mamager voor Howest is de heer Tom DECAVELE die op de campus Kortrijk eveneens in staat voor Cisco Networking Academy.

In september start een campagne om bedrijven naar Howest uit te nodigen om te experimenteren en te prototypen met ondersteuning van Proximus, Howest en IT-studenten voor projectwerk/stage.

Howest is een belangrijke Cisco Academy in België en lid van BiASC.

Meer informatie:

• Proximus en Howest gaan samen 5G-lab ter beschikking stellen van bedrijven en industriepartners

TCE: Talent Connect Event | Cisco Diegem | 27 October 2022

TCE: Talent Connect Event on 27 October 2022

Cisco Systems invites graduating students cordially to the Talent Connect Event on 27 October at the Cisco Belux Offices in Diegem.

During the event an informal setting will be created for IT students in their last phase of education to meet Cisco partners offering internships, student projects and jobs.

If you are looking for innovative ideas come and join us on 27 October. Registration is reserved for IT students in their final study phase who wish to meet a Cisco partner for an internship, thesis, student project or job. It is essential that participants are preparing for CCNA certification, CyberOps or DevNet.

The details of the event you will find here.

Preliminary list of Cisco & Channel Partners
Cisco, NTT, Cameo Global, Silta ICT, Rank 1, Conxion, Proximus, Damovo, Interligo, Insight Technology Solutions, Computacenter, Dustin, Simac, Cegeka, Atos, Inetum-Realdomen, Westcon/Comstor, Ingram Micro, Tech Data, SpotIT

Location: Cisco Diegem Offices, De Kleetlaan 6, 1831 Machelen, Belgium. Use the main entrance.

Registration Form: Hyperlink
Practical Information: Hyperlink

Spotit - Gastcolleges voor studenten

Gastcolleges | Voor alle opleidingen graduaat, bachelor en master

• Why cybersecurity is important for everyone

Gastcolleges | Voor de domeinen ICT security, netwerken en systemen

• A day in the life of a SOC analyst
• Hands-on experience with security tooling based on CTF 
• Role of a CISO in a security incident

Stageplaatsen

• Spotit biedt elk jaar verschillende stageplaatsen aan binnen de domeinen security en networking. Eveneens voor internationale studenten

Bedrijfsbezoek

• Werking van het spotit Security Operations Center (SOC)

Details 

• Download Agenda-mogelijke-gastcolleges-spotit-2022-2023

Overview & Evaluation IT Roadshow Events - May 2022

BiASC is very happy to have gathered more than 100 instructors and education managers at the IT Education Roadshow on 6 and 13 May. Participants evaluated the events with an average score of more than 4 out of 5.

To get an overview of the conferences, presentations and evaluations, click on this hyperlink.

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BiASC Netacad & IT Education Day Pictures and Presentations | IT Infrastructure, Cloud & Devops | 13 May 2022

Here are the presentations of the different sessions at the IT Infrastructure, Cloud & DevOps Day at Thomas More University on 13 May 2022.

Pictures of the event
URL: https://photos.app.goo.gl/9yVCGgocMyCdbYEw6

NetAcad Cloud & Devops Curriculum - presentation
PDF: Download Semyon 1305 BE _ Cloud and DevOps and SFA

Git for DevOps, Network & Systems Management - presentation
PDF: Download Git for DevOps Network & Systems Management

Ansible Playbooks Practical
MD: Download Talk

Python for DevOps, Network & Systems Management - presentation
PDF: Download Python for DevOps Network & Systems Management 

Amazon Web Services, AWS Education Programs
URL: https://biasc.be/2022/05/aws_education.html

Red Hat Academy, Technology Training That Paces The Future 
PDF: Download RedHatAcademy13May2022

VMware Academy, The future isn’t just cloud, it’s multi-cloud
PDF: Download 2022 05 13 BIASC day - VMware Session - Slides

=> More presentations will be added soon

BiASC Netacad & IT Education Day Pictures and Presentations | Cyber Security | 6 May 2022

Here are the pictures and presentations of the different sessions at the NetAcad & CyberSecurity Day at Pairi Daiza on 6 May 2022.

Pictures of the event
URL: https://photos.app.goo.gl/ksdQz7vMaXVsUWAR9

NetAcad Security Portfolio

PDF: Download 2022 Security offerings overview

CyberSecurity Learning Pathway (SkillsForAll)

PDF: Download Cyber Pathway at SFA - RM_SO

CyberSecurity in the Industry (Agoria)

PDF: Download 20220505 BiASC IT Education Roadshow

Firewall Implementation Scenarios

PDF: Download Cisco Firepower Cookbook Access Control Implementation Scenarios - XS v22.05

Cyber Threat Analysis with Network Packet Analyzers

PDF: Download Cyber Threat Analysis with Network Packet Analyzers

IT EDUCATION ROADSHOW - Pairi Daiza - 6 May - Important practical information

Location: Pairi Daiza Meeting room: Octopus Date: 6 May 2022 Arrival: 8:30 h Coffee & Breakfast: 8:45 h NetAcad Conference Part 1: 9 h Lunch: 12:30 h NetAcad Conference Part 2: 13:30 h Visit of the park: 16 h Departure: 18 h

GEOLOCATION

Pairi Daiza is located in Brugelette, between Mons and Ath.
Address: Pairi Daiza - Domaine de Cambron at B-7940 Brugelette (Belgium)
GPS: “Le Domaine 1 - 7940 Brugelette”

Attention: if you visit Pair Daiza by car, always give priority to the signs "Pairi Daiza" above the instructions of your GPS.
On certain small roads in the villages around Pairi Daiza, only local traffic is allowed. There are regular police checks.

PARKING
Guests will be able to park in the parking for day visitors.
Entry to these parking lots is without a ticket. A parking ticket is only required to leave at the end of the day.
Parking tickets will be given to participants at the beginning of the seminar.

The picture below shows the reception area of the tipis where guests will be welcomed between 8:30 and 8:45 h. From this reception area you will be shown the way to the meeting room. Breakfast is served in the meeting room.

 

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IT Education Roadshow - 6 May - Session Planning

Last Update: 3 May 2022

Address
PAIRI DAIZA, Domaine de Cambron 1, 7940 BRUGELETTE

Remarks

• Only officially registered participants are allowed to attend this NetAcad Instructors' Conference.
• The event is full.
• The schedule of sessions is provisional.
• Most sessions will be presented in English, but participants can ask questions or make remarks in Dutch, English and French.
• Bringing your own laptop can be useful in a number of active sessions.

 

 

 

IT Education Roadshow - 13 May - Session Planning

Lunch break

Last Update: 12 May 2022

Address
Thomas More Hogeschool
Kleinhoefstraat 4
2440 Geel

Remarks

• Only officially registered participants are allowed to attend this Instructor Conference.
• The schedule of sessions is provisional.
• Most sessions will be presented in English, but participants can ask questions or make remarks in Dutch, English and French.
• Bringing your own laptop can be useful in a number of active sessions.

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