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The Value of Cybersecurity Competitions
October 20, 2022 at 3:30-4:30pm ET
This presentation took place during the regularly scheduled monthly NICE Cybersecurity Skills Competitions Community of Interest meeting.
Synopsis:
The NICE Cybersecurity Skills Competitions Community of Interest celebrated Cybersecurity Career Awareness Week with a special panel presentation on the value of cybersecurity competitions.
Participating in competitions serves as an important complementary opportunity to a traditional academic program. While technical skills are enhanced by competing, the players are also honing their critical thinking, problem-solving, and team-building skills – all of which are essential to economic prosperity, national security, and everyday lives.
Employers can see these activities as proof that a potential employee can perform the tasks needed in a high-pressure situation. Often the competitions employ the latest technologies that might not yet be covered in academic or training coursework. The competition exercises provide the interdisciplinary application of legal, ethical, policy, cryptography, secure coding, forensics, system hardening, system administration, network traffic analysis, system hardening, and more - all while working as a team.
Speakers:
Aidan Benderly,
US Cyber Games
Susan Green,
Cyberbit
Michael Harpin,
President’s Cup
Amelia Phillips,
US Cyber Games
Wicked6
David Zeichick,
National Cyber League