Cybersecurity: Collegiate Hackathon Helping Advance Students, Industries

It’s students versus cybersecurity experts in the March Madness of Security Have you filled out your bracket yet? Not the one for the NCAA Tournament, but for the annual National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (NCCDC), presented by Raytheo… Continue reading Cybersecurity: Collegiate Hackathon Helping Advance Students, Industries

University of Maryland, Baltimore County wins national cybersecurity championships

The University of Maryland, Baltimore County won the 2017 National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition over the weekend, beating out nine other teams in the final round from universities based across the country, including the renown Rochester Institute of Technology. Students competed against one another last week in San Antonio, Texas, in a constructed digital battlefield where each team was scored on their ability to defend a network infrastructure that was designed to mirror systems currently used in the commercial sector. Competitors were tasked with guarding the model network, which included point-of-sale and inventory technologies, while ensuring that it remained useable and reliable for end users. An in-house red team of ethical hackers employed by the event’s sponsors played the part of attacker, launching a range of different cyberattacks at the students. Over the last several years, a series of separate challenges have also been added to the competition to specifically […]

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