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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.
UNG wins NSA Codebreaker Challenge for second year in a row
UNG scored 323,150 points to win the NSA Codebreaker Challenge, which wrapped up Jan. 31.
Even with changes to the National Security Agency (NSA) Codebreaker Challenge in 2020, including a vastly expanded scope of tasks from previous years, the University of North Georgia (UNG) emerged victorious for the second year in a row.
UNG students, faculty and staff tallied 323,150 points, while second-place Georgia Tech finished with 74,010. Oregon State University, University of Cincinnati, and University of California, Santa Cruz rounded out the top five of the event that wrapped up Jan. 31.
Eighty-nine UNG participants completed the first six tasks of the challenge, with no other school having more than seven players complete that many tasks. UNG also had 27 participants complete the seventh task, with the next-closest school having four competitors reach that point. UNG s team had 168 participants complete at least one task.