Organized by Detroit Mercy’s Cybersecurity & Information Systems department, 12 students, forming two Detroit Mercy blue teams (cyber defenders) worked on Saturday, April 1 in the National Centers of Academic Excellence (NCAE) Cyber Games Competition, with one team placing third.
The NCAE Cyber Games Competition is open to any CAE designated school and is designed for students who have never competed in a cyber competition previously. To score points, students are initially given a compromised network to fix and must defend over a dozen network services whilst being hacked by the organizer’s red team throughout a seven-hour period.
The third place winners were Ethan Scheys (team captain), Preston Duller, JP Marvin, Eyiara Oladipo, Ayanna Mendieta, Nouman Ahmed and Aaron Hewins.
Earning a respectable overall finish, Detroit Mercy students on the second team were John Weglarz (team captain), Noah Segal, Charlie Lipka, Alicia Norman and Rex VanPelt.
Serving as coaches were Anne Kohnke, Greg Laidlaw and Harrison Haviland-Longo.
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