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<\/a>The team, from left to right, Yash Kakade; Asheq Siddiquee Tanmoy; Ketki Gokhale; Dr. Ahmad Javaid, associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Sadiksha Aryal; Neeraj Shrestha and N H M Arafat.<\/p><\/div>\n
Through the CyberForce Competition, the DOE has worked to increase hands-on cyber education to college students and professionals, awareness into the critical infrastructure and cyber security nexus\u00a0and\u00a0basic understanding of cyber security within a\u00a0real-world scenario.<\/p>\n
Utilizing critical infrastructure-focused scenarios, the DOE\u2019s competition added realistic components that include a cyber-physical infrastructure, lifelike anomalies and constraints and actual users of the systems. This competition provides students a hands-on security approach to their infrastructure from their servers and virtual machines to the physical devices on their tables. And includes the strain of balancing security with usability; scores of participants include a user\u2019s ability to continue normal work operations.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe UToledo Club for Cyber Security formed a team of really motivated, well-trained and knowledgeable students from the MS in Cybersecurity and BS in Computer Science Engineering Technology programs to participate in the Annual DOE CyberForce Competition,\u201d said Dr. Ahmad Javaid, associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and director of the Paul A. Hotmer Cybersecurity and Teaming Research (CSTAR) Lab. \u201cThe competition focuses on cyber-defense exercises that are interactive and scenario-based, where participants engage in cybersecurity activities, methods, practices, strategies, policies and ethics. The Cybersecurity major at UToledo continues to train our students through hands-on-oriented coursework, internships and participation in these real-world-scenario-based competitions to prepare them to fill the national skill gaps in cybersecurity and protection of critical infrastructure.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dr. Weiqing Sun, a professor in the Department of Computer Science Engineering Technology\u00a0and director of the master\u2019s programs in cyber security,\u00a0added, \u201cThe Master\u2019s programs in Cyber Security at UToledo College of Engineering provide an experiential learning-rich curriculum tailored to student interests and industry needs. We have flexible program capstone options, state of art curriculum, experienced faculty and excellent facilities to prepare our students to succeed in their future cyber security careers. Our students have found this program home and have actively engaged in a variety of activities including federally sponsored cyber security research projects, UToledo IT security operations and summer internships at local companies. In addition, they have founded The University of Toledo Club for Cyber Security, through which they have organized several cybersecurity events and participated in the DOE CyberForce Competition.\u201d<\/p>\n
UToledo\u2019s team hopes to take multiple teams to next year\u2019s competition and are already working to make improvements in the specific categories where they fell short, said Asheq Siddiquee Tanmoy, president of the club.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe top-performing teams had participated regularly in the competition before. We hope our continuous participation will further improve our performance,\u201d he said. \u201cThe University of Toledo participated in 2019, and this year we have seen a significant improvement in the performance. We hope to make a continuous effort to participate in the competition and open the door for this \u2018learning from real-life’ opportunity in the field of Cyber Security.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The team ranked 33rd\u00a0out of 144 teams in the Department of Energy\u2019s 2022 event in Chicago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":756,"featured_media":77005,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,34,1,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77003"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/756"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77003"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77051,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77003\/revisions\/77051"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>