Co-organizing the 2nd iteration of the CreativeMinds Worshop in Bochum, 2024.

Outreach activity by Doctoral Candidate Gina Muuss.

https://creativeminds.ruhr/

She co-organized the second iteration of the CreativeMinds Workshop in Bochum, in cooperation with CASA, the Max-Plank Institute, FluxFingers (a local computer-security student group), and several corporate sponsors. The workshop revolves around getting more women interested in CyberSecurity and helping them get a start in the field. It offers an introduction to Web Exploitation to 24 women aged 16 to 25, who qualified to be invited through a series of challenges. She gave lectures on the basics of the internet, Cross-Site scripting and several injection vulnerabilities. She also gave a brief overview of her ongoing PhD research. The workshop gave the women a platform to form communities and is trying to alleviate the ongoing issue of gender imbalance in the field of IT-security.