Iowa State IT students to try their luck against hackers
This is a brilliant way to help educate students! Too many IT-related educational programs are way too lax on what they teach, how updated classes are, and how hard they push students. I really wish I would have been taught more about security in my MIS program or that more security classes were offered at least. Check out what Iowa State is doing…
Iowa State University will be victimized by hackers this weekend, and school officials are just fine with that. That’s because the hackers will be applying their demonic talents to help educate a new generation of network security professionals during the Big 12 School’s 2005 Cyber Defense Competition.
The contest, one of a handful of such events across the country, will pit 11 teams of four to six Iowa State students against each other in a battle to see who’s best at fending off a variety of network intrusions. The idea is to simulate the conditions young networking geeks will encounter as future IT professionals. “Hopefully, the network teams keep the network up and running, and stay one step ahead of the hackers, just like in the real world,” says Nate Evans, a senior computer science and German major who’s student director of the competition.
Read the rest over at SecurityPipeline.