{"id":1106,"date":"2018-04-12T23:50:20","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T23:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/?p=1106"},"modified":"2018-04-12T23:55:45","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T23:55:45","slug":"student-team-wins-regional-doe-cyber-defense-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/2018\/04\/12\/student-team-wins-regional-doe-cyber-defense-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Student team wins regional DOE Cyber Defense Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Oregon State took first place at the regional DOE Cyber Defense Competition 2018. Pictured are (left to right) Zach Rogers, Khuong Luu, Hadi Rahal-Arabi, Yeongjin Jang, Devon Streit (DOE), Zander Work, Cody Holliday, and Aidan Grimshaw<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A team of six computer science students at Oregon State University competed for the first time and won the regional Department of Energy Cyber Defense Competition<\/a> held at Pacific Northwest Laboratory in Richland, Washington.<\/p>\n

The competition simulates a real-world situation in which the teams defend a corporate network infrastructure from professional hackers. Each team built a mock infrastructure including a web server, a file server, a database server, email, and other network operations. During the competition, a group of users utilized the services while the hackers launched attacks. The defending teams had to monitor and respond to the cyberattacks throughout the day and were scored on how well they defended their infrastructure and how well they documented what they had done.<\/p>\n

The Oregon State team placed first among six teams from the western U.S. at the regional competition, and placed fourth nationally among 29 teams.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u201cThe competition was a lot of work, but it was also a lot of fun,\u201d said Zander Work, a freshman in computer science who led the team. \u201cThe team put in many long nights leading up to the competition to finish hardening our defenses, and it paid off.\u201d<\/p>\n

Zander and the other five students who competed \u2014 Aidan Grimshaw, Cody Holliday, Khuong Luu, Hadi Rahal-Arabi and Zach Rogers \u2014 are all members of the OSU Security Club<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlthough it was a very first time the students participated in such a competition, they did a great job,\u201d said Yeongjin Jang, assistant professor of computer science in the College of Engineering who advised the team. \u201cI was very happy to see the students working hard for an entire month of preparation, not hesitating to tackle difficult tasks, and working well as a team at the competition venue.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A team of six computer science students at Oregon State University competed for the first time and won the regional Department of Energy Cyber Defense Competition held at Pacific Northwest Laboratory in Richland, Washington. The competition simulates a real-world situation in which the teams defend a corporate network infrastructure from professional hackers. Each team built […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5907,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2027,216220],"tags":[1231,741220,201586,741222,155,741224,741223,101813],"class_list":["post-1106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","category-student-stories","tag-computer-science","tag-cyber-defense","tag-cybersecurity","tag-doe-cyber-defense-competition","tag-oregon-state-university","tag-osu-security-club","tag-pacific-northwest-laboratory","tag-school-of-electrical-engineering-and-computer-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5907"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1106"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1119,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106\/revisions\/1119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}