{"id":7642,"date":"2023-04-27T09:44:28","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T17:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/?p=7642"},"modified":"2023-04-27T09:44:28","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T17:44:28","slug":"wsus-cybercougs-student-team-prevailed-at-regional-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wsus-cybercougs-student-team-prevailed-at-regional-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"WSU\u2019s CyberCougs Student Team Prevailed at Regional Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"676\" src=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/generic-coug-head3-v2-1024x676.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7643\" srcset=\"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/generic-coug-head3-v2-1024x676.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/generic-coug-head3-v2-300x198.jpg 300w, http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/generic-coug-head3-v2-768x507.jpg 768w, http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/generic-coug-head3-v2-97x64.jpg 97w, http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/generic-coug-head3-v2.jpg 1212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A team of five Washington State University computer science students earned gold in the Spokane Mayor\u2019s Cup, a regional cybersecurity competition that aims to foster emerging cybersecurity talent to meet the growing demands of a developing technological landscape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>The third annual event invited regional high school and college students to participate in a \u201ccapture the flag\u201d style competition, requiring participants to collect \u2018flags\u2019 of short phrases or lines of code. Industry professionals coached students over roadblocks and provided advice throughout the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The team has been learning about cybersecurity through their involvement in the Northwest Virtual Institute for Cybersecurity Education and Research (CySER) and WSU\u2019s Cyber Security Group (CSG), a student club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CySER is a Department of Defense funded program that trains ROTC and defense-aligned civilians to enter the cybersecurity workforce, and is a partnership between WSU, Montana State University, University of Idaho, Columbia Basin College, and Central Washington University. The CySER Institute supports students in cybersecurity research and professional development through competitions, research projects, seminars, and hands-on summer workshops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Team CyberCougs plans to participate in national cybersecurity competitions within the next year while continuing involvement in CySER and CSG. The organizations are anticipated to grow as WSU launches its new cybersecurity degree program in fall of 2023, a response to the nation\u2019s need for cybersecurity-educated computer science professionals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of five Washington State University computer science students earned gold in the Spokane Mayor\u2019s Cup, a regional cybersecurity competition that aims to foster emerging cybersecurity talent to meet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,20,3,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-and-workforce-development","category-events","category-news","category-student-activities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7644,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7642\/revisions\/7644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}