Image: This spring, UGA’s School of Computing’s The Hack Pack team placed second in the Southeast at the National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity (NCAE-C) Cyber Game and is advancing to the national invitational this April. Throughout six hours of competition, as part of the blue team, the Hack Pack defended critical infrastructure in a high-stakes, intense competition against the opposing red team. The red team launched many attacks across multiple platforms, including: FTP, DNS, ICMP, Web, and Postgres. “This is one of several examples of our students and student clubs excelling! Cyber competitions are an excellent way for students to gain hands-on experience and be prepared for top-notch positions in industry,” said Professor and Inaugural Director of the School of Computing Gagan Agrawal. Events like the NCAE Cyber Games are inspiring college students to enter the exciting (and sometimes profitable!) realm of cyber competitions. The Hack Pack, UGA’s Practical and Competitive Cybersecurity Club team was compromised of students including: Divesh Gupta, Ethan Mund, Garrett Moore, SriRam Surisetty, Aparna Sajith, Agni Athreya, Swapnil Roy, Matthew House, and Hung Nguyen. Prof. Kyu Lee supervises this group. Type of News/Audience: Student Success
