Fund Student Cybersecurity Education!

WSU Cybersecurity Group (CSG) is dedicated to helping students get hands-on experience they wouldn't otherwise have access to. 

The ability to exploit permissions in enterprise networks or hack Wi-Fi passwords are critical skills for any cybersecurity professional or hobbyist, and yet it's difficult to practice these techniques outside of a safe and legal environment. CSG provides that environment, and creates structured exercises to teach cybersecurity enthusiasts of all skill levels.

We gained access to our future lab in Fall 2025, and have been building it ever since without any formal funding. With help from the with the Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture, we've managed to collect tech waste that was discarded or going unused. With this we created a functional proof of concept lab, but we're currently reliant on scavenged, decades-old technology. This prevents us from doing anything technically intensive on the lab computers. 

With your help, we can upgrade our lab's computers to modern standards. This will grant our exercise developers a much wider range of capabilities. We could run advanced software for network penetration testing, password cracking, software reverse engineering, and more. Furthermore, it would allow us to purchase hardware to expand our exercises to other fields of cybersecurity such as wireless communications and Bluetooth. 

Cybersecurity is a wide field with many tools to use, and giving students access to these tools provides them with an invaluable learning and professional development opportunity. Help us bring hands-on cyber education to WSU!