2025 CyberSlam in the MIX

“Nearly 500 high school students from across the commonwealth gathered at George Mason University for Virginia CyberSlam 2025, where cybersecurity experts from both the public and private sectors shared industry insights during a day of activities aimed at inspiring the next generation of cybersecurity professionals.  “ (Teresa M. Donnellan, 2025)

High school students from across the Northern Virginia region gathered at Mason on March 10th 2025, to partake in this remarkable event. Keynote speakers from across the cybersecurity field spoke before groups of 50 broke off into several hands-on workshops in various aspects of cybersecurity, led by professionals.

At the MIX, Greg Crabb from 10-8, LLC, conducted a tabletop exercise on incident response and deep fake technology There were 3 sessions with roughly 50 students each round that gathered, split into groups, strategized for 15-20 minutes, and presented their incident response pitch.