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糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock team advances to regional cyber defense competition

A cyber security team from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock will advance to the second round of the Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition. Twenty teams from Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, and New Mexico competed during a virtual qualifying round on Feb. 18. 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock and seven other teams advanced to compete in the March 17-19 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Coached by Yanyan Li, an integrated computing doctoral student, the team consists of Captain Connor Young, Aaron Mays, Hector Fernandez, Jeffrey Wooldridge, Josh Carlat, Malik El-Amin, Shijun Zhong, and Zachary Long. 鈥淭his was a great achievement for our CCDC team, considering that only two members participated in last year’s competition, and we had as many as six new members join this year,鈥� Li said. 鈥淭hey played as a team helping each other and secured our servers from being attacked.鈥� During the competition, students assume the administrative and protective duties for a commercial network. While the team runs the companies, it must defend its networks against attacks from a professional team of penetration testers, who find security vulnerabilities in web-based applications, networks, and systems. 鈥淲e play the part of a newly hired IT team for a small, web-based company,鈥� Young said. 鈥淪ome example of difficulties we faced include dealing with missing passwords on our computers, writing policies such as a BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) policy, and providing services for our company. This last challenge includes maintaining a web page, managing our coworkers鈥� accounts, and providing useful file sharing inside and outside of our company.鈥� In 2016, the 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock team finished third in the Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition at Texas A&M University-San Antonio. In the upper right photo, the 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Cyber Defense Team includes, from left to right: Back Row:聽Yanyan Li,聽Josh Carlat,聽Connor Young, and Shijun Zhong. Front Row:聽Zachary Long,聽Malik El-Amin,聽Aaron Mays, and Hector Fernandez.聽