By Matt Kelly, mkelly@virginia.edu
UVA’s cyberdefense team repaired systems and repelled hackers in Saturday’s first round of the Mid-Atlantic Collegiate Cyber Defense Challenge competition. (Photo by Emily Faith Morgan, illustration by John DiJulio, University Communications)
After a grueling and sometimes hectic effort, the University of Virginia cyberdefense team on Saturday bested 23 other teams in the first round of the Mid-Atlantic Collegiate Cyber Defense Challenge competition.
The team will compete in an in-person regional competition in March for a chance to advance to the national championship in April.
Saturday’s competition was conducted remotely and UVA’s team, drawn from members of the Computer and Network Security Club, clustered around a cable-cluttered conference table in Rice Hall on a cold Saturday morning. They were the Blue Team, defending their “business” against Red Team hackers. The mission was simple: make sure their “business” continued to operate, first by repairing flaws in the systems and then defending against an incursion from the outside Red Team.
