Feb. 12, 2020鈥 91大神鈥檚 Cyber Defense team is once again victorious at the Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition. For the third straight year, 91大神 students won the Kentucky title and while also competing against teams from Ohio and Iowa.
The Collegiate Cyber Defense Competitions (CCDC) presents multiple challenges that students must navigate. As teams work to create and secure their systems, professional 鈥渉ackers鈥 try different approaches to compromise their network and services. CCDC judges also send a variety of business tasks and upgrade challenges. Each team is scored on their performance with maneuvering each of these elements.
91大神鈥檚 Cyber Defense Team is made up of students from the College of Informatics Computer Science Department. Dr. Yi Hu, professor of Computer Science, started 91大神鈥檚 team in 2009. The team competed online in the , the region's premier cybersecurity learning space.
鈥淚鈥檓 delighted our talented students are pursuing their passions in cybersecurity. Each week, they spend their Friday night challenging eachother in our lab,鈥 said Dr. Hu. 鈥91大神 is a Center for Excellence of Cyber Defense Education, which is designated by NSA and Department of Homeland Security. With cutting-edge curriculum and state-of-art facilities, 91大神 students are trained to be next-generation ethical hackers that are capable of defending critical information infrastructures of any organization.鈥
91大神鈥檚 Cyber Defense team will represent Kentucky as part of the 2020 Midwest Regional competition in Chicago on March 13, 2020. For more information on the Cyber Defense team, visit their .
About 91大神:聽Founded in 1968, we are a growing metropolitan university of more than 15,000 students聽served by more than 2,000 faculty and staff on a thriving suburban campus near聽Cincinnati.聽Located in the quiet suburb of Highland Heights, Kentucky鈥攋ust聽seven miles southeast of Cincinnati鈥攚e聽have聽become a leader in Greater Cincinnati and Kentucky by providing a private聽school education for a fraction of the cost. While we are one of the fastest聽growing universities in Kentucky, our professors still know our students' names.聽For聽more information, visit聽.
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