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Training
Manx courses
The University College
Isle of Man (UCM) has
launched Cybersecurity
and Advanced Computer
Science degrees for
Manx residents. This
follows the launch of
the IT and Education
‘Nunnery Campus’ last
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weekend challenge:
CYBER SCENARIO CONTEST
Barclays was weekend host of the Cyber Security
Challenge UK, when an immersive competition tested 30
cyber enthusiasts.
Contestants took the role of interns at a fictitious cyber
firm, who had to defend their company from a cyberattack,
triggered by an insider, while their superiors were
on a team-building canoeing trip. The competition is the
last of the Challenge’s 2017 face-to-face competitions
to find UK hidden cyber talent and place them in public
and private sector cyber security roles. The competition,
pictured, ran in Radbroke Hall, near Knutsford, Cheshire,
the site of Barclays’ Technology Centre. In the scenario,
the ‘interns’, at a fictitious security firm
called ‘Research4U’, had to act after
a hacking group began stealing source
code and client data. The story saw
hackers demand a ransom of £10m to
prevent releasing the data to the press.
Competitors had to infiltrate and stop
the fictional hacker group, to destroy
the leaked information before it could
be released to the ‘press’. Cyber staffers
from Barclays and others in industry assessed contestants
on their vulnerability assessment, reconnaissance, attack
strategies and espionage skills. The Challenge runs
to publicise cyber as a career. The winners were team
Wormhole: Carolyn Yates, Isabel Whistlecroft, Kajusz
Dykiel, Peter Campbell and Waldo Woch. Competition
organisers say that the scenario mirrored recent high
profile attacks, such as WannaCry, where hackers held
organisations to ransom.
Best way to learn
Troels Oerting, Barclays Group Chief Security Officer
(CSO) and Group Chief Information Security Officer
(CISO) said: “The best way to learn about cyber security
is to engage in realistic scenarios, such as the competition
that we’ve just hosted. Saturday’s event created a scenario
that really tested a candidate’s ability to perform under
pressure, think strategically, work as a team and display
leadership skills. A career in cyber security requires various
skills, including the ability to second-guess hackers and
make critical decisions quickly. It was very encouraging to
see students so immersed in solving the challenge we set
them, and I wish all the candidates the very best.” p
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