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From: Alexei Czeskis <aczeskis@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 9:49 PM
Subject: [cs-ugrads] Join the SecDef Team
To: cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu
Defense Team!
The UW CSE SecDef team
competes in the yearly Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition,
which focuses on using practical skills to lock down PCs in
the face of active attackers.
Short version: you get to
protect a real network from getting pwned by actual attackers
for two grueling days.
Come learn more at out
information session! Next Monday the 17th at 6 pm in room CSE
503.
More details:
The competition permits up
to eight people per team, and we’re looking to recruit several
people this year. If you use Linux at home and write shell
scripts on a daily basis, we want you. If you administer a
Windows server on the public internet and it hasn’t gotten
pwned yet (or if you have some sort of Microsoft Admin
certification), we want you. If you don’t have these things
but want to learn, we still want you.
If you have friends who are
not in the department and are interested or have some
experience, tell them to come! This is not restricted to CSE
majors only. System administration isn’t necessarily directly
related to Computer Science, but going on to a national
competition in this field is a great way to demonstrate
out-of-class interest on your resume.
Historically, we’ve won
regionals and gone on to nationals every year for the past
three years. Many of our past members have gone on to
security-related jobs at Google and elsewhere.
Send a paragraph or two
about yourself to secdef@cs.washington.edu if you would like to join.
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