Navy beats Army in annual cybersecurity competition

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (April 15, 2015) U.S. Naval Academy Superintendent Vice Adm. Walter E. “Ted” Carter observes a team of midshipmen during the 15th annual Cyber Defense Exercise hosted by the National Security Agency. The Naval Academy team won first place in the competition this year. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communications Specialist 2nd Class Tyler Caswell/RELEASED)

The U.S. Naval Academy triumphed at the 17th annual Cyber Defense Exercise last week. This is the fourth time the U.S. Naval Academy has won. The U.S. Military Academy won last year.  

The U.S. Coast Guard Academy, U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, U.S. Military Academy, and the Royal Military College of Canada also competed in the event, which took place last week and was hosted by NSA Cybersecurity Operations.  

Students work to build, secure and defend their networks from adversarial scenarios staged by NSA and military experts. Points were awarded to teams based on successful steps they accomplished in areas of reverse engineering/malware analysis, host/network forensics, offensive ethical hacking and the UAV challenge.

Read more about the Cyber Defense Exercise at FifthDomain