University of New Haven Hacking Team Competes Nationally After Winning Regional, Connecticut Competitions

WEST HAVEN, Conn., Oct. 31, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- A group of computer science and cyber security majors from the Tagliatela College of Engineering at the University of New Haven will be among 10 teams from major schools around the country competing in the national Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition at the Rochester Institute of Technology later this week.

The University of New Haven fended off teams from Drexel and Carnegie Mellon, one of the top universities worldwide in cyber security and technology education, among others to advance through the regional competition hosted recently on the campus of Penn State.

As part of the 48-hour competition, the students performed penetration testing for a fictional company -- Gotham Elections. They met with individuals playing the role of company staff and spent the next eight to nine hours attempting to compromise various devices on the company's network and documenting their findings. The team then had until eight the next morning to prepare a comprehensive report and a presentation.

"Experiences like this are a great opportunity for our students to practice their hacking skills, compete with other teams, and learn about professional penetration testing," said team advisor Frank Breitinger, assistant professor of computer science and co–director of the University of New Haven's Cyber Forensics Laboratory. "These events offer great opportunities to network with potential future employers. Making it to the nationals is a tremendous success for a small university like ours."

The University of New Haven team also this month placed second of 23 teams at CyberSEED, a national cyber security conference hosted by the University of Connecticut.  The team won $7,500, finishing behind Central Florida, which came in first and won $10,000.

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