Applied Science Students Battle (and Learn) in Cyber War Exercise
The UC College of Applied Science course, "Information Security and Privacy," just ended with an all-out war - a cyber war.
For the final exam in the course, students divided into two teams. One team had to defend its computer system from a team of fellow-student hackers.
Exercises like the CAS Cyber War 2009 are standard training exercises for law enforcement around the country as well as private security firms. Computer systems come under attack several thousand times a day and exercises like this help agents react more quickly and effectively to threats.
While the attackers failed and the cyber defenses held during this final exam, all the students were winners in this exercise. One student, an attacker in the exercise, commented that he now really understands what it takes to protect a system.
For more, visit http://www.uc.edu/cas/highlights/?id=cyberattack
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