The Beacon
Terra State Community College cybersecurity students completed the annual National Security Agency (NSA) Codebreaker Challenge recently, finishing in 14th in the 452-school competition against many of the country’s major four-year universities. Terra’s 33 students participated in two phases of challenges that started back in October.
Students applied their computer skills about cracking passwords, social engineering, complex mathematic computations and reverse engineering software to solve problems in a fictional story.
“The challenge presented many great opportunities for students to develop their creative cybersecurity skills that they have gained throughout their time at Terra State,” said Mike Daigneault, assistant professor in Terra State’s computer information systems program, “All of the students showed their creativity in creating solutions for each task and went above and beyond.