/news-archive/tag/collegiate-cyber-defense-competition/ 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Wed, 01 Mar 2017 19:51:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.1 /news-archive/2017/03/01/cyber-defense-competition/ Wed, 01 Mar 2017 19:51:20 +0000 /news/?p=66467 ... 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock team advances to regional 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  ]]>