Student Team Wins 2nd Place at Cyber Defense Competition
Posted on 2015-11-11
A team of four Computer Science students recently won second place in the prestigious CANSec Cyber Defense Competition, held in Little Rock on Oct. 24. The competition is held annually as a part of the CANSec workshop (formerly KanSec), which has brought together researchers and practitioners in networking and security related fields since Spring 2012.
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The students competed against Cyber Security teams from several other universities across the U.S. before winning second place in the day-long competition. The goal of the competition was to provide students with a platform to apply theoretical knowledge into practice, and to obtain hands-on cyber security experience. During the competition, the teams were asked to oversee a small corporate network, to manage all critical services, and to defend against external attacks.
The U of M winning team included two graduate students (Kul Subedi, Sujit Shrestha) and two undergraduates (Robert Edstrom, Nick Gordon), all of whom are involved with the Center for Information Assurance. "It was a valuable experience, and one I'm very glad to have been a part of," said Robert Edstrom. "I think we all learned a great deal from working as a team."
The team also participated and performed well in the CyberSEED national cyber security competition, held at UConn on Oct. 29-30.
![CANSec award CANSec award](https://www.memphis.edu/cs/images/2015cansec_award.jpg)