Hacker teams throw down in international CyberLympics
Seven teams from around the world are pitting their cyberattack and defense skills against each other this week in the first international CyberLympics hacker games.
The games, being hosted by iSight Inc. in Chantilly, Va., are organized by the International Council of E-Commerce Consultants (EC-Council) and are the culmination of a series of regional competitions that began last year.
Two teams each from North America, Europe, the Middle East and one team from the Asia Pacific region will attack each other’s networks while defending their own on March 21. The winner will be announced March 22.
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Each teams is composed of four to six seasoned professionals, with two alternates allowed, and many of them have had experience securing high-value targets such as the Defense Department’s Global Information Grid. Because of the nature of their work, the teams demonstrate a certain reticence to publicity, if not outright secrecy.
“Some companies mask their names,” said David McGill, vice president of enterprise and security solutions at the U.S. security consulting firm ICF International, which is fielding the first place North American team. ICF is not hiding its name, but it is withholding the identities of its team members. Publishing the names could expose them, or their clients, to attacks, he said. “We don’t need to put a target on them.”
The runner-up North American team, also competing in the finals, is known only as The Little Penguins that Could.
Other participants are, from Europe:
- hack.ers from the Netherlands
- Six Pistols from Hungary
The Middle East and India:
- Ctrl+Alt+Del from India
- Team aeCert from the United Arab Emirates
Asia Pacific:
- Requiem from Malaysia
The CyberLympic games are part of a growing trend toward local, national and now global competitions to help develop a professional cybersecurity workforce. In the United States, a coalition of government and private industry organizations two years ago set a goal of identifying and recruiting 10,000 people with the native skills required for cybersecurity work and providing a career path for them.
Article source: http://gcn.com/articles/2012/03/20/cyberlympics-hacker-teams-olympic-challenge.aspx
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