Cyber Defense Competition Has A New Champion 66
lisah writes "Several colleges across the country went head-to-head in San Antonio, Texas last weekend at the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition to see which team could best protect their networks against attacks. In a modern day version of Steal the Flag, the teams duked it out using identical network setups that included a Cisco router and five servers. In the end, Baker College took the champion's title from last year's winner, Texas A & M University."
Cyber war-gaming (Score:5, Interesting)
Exercises such as these are critically important to war-game any networked system, particularly when that system is using commercial off the shelf solutions and commodity hardware that is accessible and easy to explore outside the realm of cyber warfare. i.e. war-gaming your attacks before going live...
Re:Not sure what this proves (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Not sure what this proves (Score:4, Interesting)