For the past four years, I’ve sat through six-hour-long competitions several times a year. These competitions are an integral part of CyberPatriot, a national computer security education program for high school students. For nearly the entire six-hours, I focus on securing a Linux system by using command line, editing server configuration files, and digging through the Linux filesystem, while my teammates complete networking quizzes and work on securing Windows systems. During competitions and weekly meetings, we made frequent use of technology and security websites to solve problems and form a fundamental understanding of the working of operating systems. In my second year, I became the CyberPatriot president, took on management-related activities,
