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Dumpshock Forums _ Shadowrun _ Real Life: Iowa Decker Training Competition

Posted by: PenAgain May 19 2006, 04:01 PM

Up all night fighting off hackers

AMES, Iowa -- These high schoolers will have permission to stay up all night playing a computer game.

Students from 10 Iowa high schools will spend 15 hours playing the security crew for a fictional dot-com startup company in Metropolitan, Iowa. The students' job will be to design a computer network that will keep hackers from attacking the company and its work creating databases.

And then they'll have to stay up all night defending that network from a team of Iowa State University students posing as hackers.

It's all part of Iowa's first High School Cyber Defense Competition. The competition starts at 7 p.m. Friday, May 19, at Iowa State's Internet-Scale Event and Attack Generation Environment. The electronic action ends at 10 a.m. Saturday, May 20. The event is free and open to the public.

Full story:
http://www.iastate.edu/~nscentral/news/2006/may/cyber.shtml

Posted by: hobgoblin May 19 2006, 06:08 PM

heh, there will be a lot of bruised egos on both sides before that one is over.

still, unless the database have to have a online pressence, i would just pull the ethernet cable out of the box and leave it at that

Posted by: Dog May 19 2006, 10:11 PM

hmm... so how much thinking outside the box do the rules cover? Could the "hackers" send some thugs to intimidate a "security" guy into cooperating. Maybe they could storm the building in ski-masks and paint guns, tie up the kids and hack at will...

Posted by: Voran May 20 2006, 12:43 AM

Outside the box would be fun.

"Hey, is that a chopper I hear?" and "Was that gunfire?"

Or in true SR style, this 'test run' actually ends up masking a real run aimed at the site.

Posted by: headfirst-for-halos May 20 2006, 05:10 PM

Wow, wish I knew about this. Sounds fun!