The Cyber Cluster met with the students of Yenimahalle Şehit Mehmet Şengül Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School, who are interested in cyber security, in the conference hall on March 2, 2023.
At the conference, where Alpaslan Kesici, General Coordinator of Türkiye Cyber Security Cluster, made the opening speech and moderated, our members IT Cyber Security Yılmaz Değirmenci from the company, Swordsec Seyfullah Kılıç from the company and CyberPath Besim Altınok from the company took part as a speaker.
The conference started with the opening speech of Yenimahalle Şehit Mehmet Şengül Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School Principal Bayram Arslanoğlu. The School Principal thanked Turkish Cyber Security Cluster Coordinator Alpaslan Kesici and one of our members, Cyber Security Experts, for participating in this event invitation, which he believed would be beneficial to his students.General Coordinator Alpaslan Kesici said in his opening speech that it was exciting to be together with bright young people. Kesici said, “We would like to thank our brothers Emre and Muhammed Ali, who are determined and determined 11th grade students of our school, who researched, found and followed us, who made us meet and gather here, and our school principal Bayram who invited us.” he said.Kesici stated that people's interests begin to develop in high school age, so this is the right time to focus on cyber security and that the field of cyber security is an increasingly rising field. General Coordinator Alpaslan Kesici also talked about the activities of the Cyber Cluster. "As you know, our capabilities in the defense industry as a country have improved considerably in recent times. We have been able to develop our own unmanned air, sea and land vehicles, warplanes, our own weapons, red apples, drones, helicopters, tanks, rifles, rockets, radars, warships, submarines, base stations, etc., many of our new defense technologies 100% locally and nationally by our own engineers. And these products have become world brands. Many countries are now lining up to purchase these products. How did we achieve this success? Do you know, young people? We achieved these dreams together with our young brothers like you. We did it together with our young brothers who are nationally conscious, talented and want to produce something. You will be talented engineers, technicians or technicians in the future and you will serve our country by taking your place in this flag race.” He concluded his words by stating that they trust young people and will always support them.Cyber Security Expert Yılmaz Değirmenci, who took the floor afterwards, emphasized the basic concepts of cyber security in his presentation and talked about the world of white hat hackers. Değirmenci also informed the young people about malware and gave information about cyber security work areas such as penetration testing expertise, reverse engineering, malware analysis expertise, computer forensics expertise, Some (cyber incident response team) and Soc (security operations center) teams, cyber threat analysis expertise and cyber security solution producers. Yılmaz Değirmenci also underlined that those who want to make a career in cyber security should learn English well.Cyber Security Expert Seyfullah Kılıç met with young people with a cyber security awareness presentation. In his presentation, Kılıç explained that many international sites were hacked. He said that the cyber security culture in our country started to form in 2012 and that a good point has been reached in the last 11 years, especially the local antiviruses have been successful. He pointed out that especially in phishing attacks, which are the most preferred by hackers, the end user, that is, human beings, are targeted and chosen as victims, the links to be clicked should be controlled, and also the importance of creating very strong passwords when creating passwords.
Kılıç also added that they have recently promoted malware links created by hackers to the top by advertising them on Google.Finally, Cyber Security Expert Besim Altınok showed live examples of what malicious hackers can do.He also showed with live examples how the wireless networks used can be compromised by malicious people - even if the password is very strong.Then, he demonstrated in practice how removable devices such as USB and chargers that we use in our daily lives can be misused by malicious people and the risks they pose.Finally, photos taken with mobile phones can be viewed if the user asks the machine "Should the camera access location information?" He demonstrated in practice that if the question is answered yes, he also keeps the location information in his memory and thus can find out where the person took that photo.At the conference, which was met with great interest from the 250 students who attended, many students asked questions to the speakers. After the plaque presentation, the event ended with taking a souvenir photo.
