Cyber Defense Team participates in Southeast Collegiate Cyber Defense Contest

2018 Mar 13

Thitiphop Phucharoen of Phang-nga, Thailand (82110) was one of nine cadets on The Citadel Cyber Defense Team who competed in the Southeast Collegiate Cyber Defense Contest Feb. 24.

The team competed from The Citadel campus, joining more than two dozen other college teams in cyberspace for the contest hosted by Kennesaw State University, which is located in Georgia.

The nine cadets who competed are all in various stages of their studies through The Citadel's National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Education, which was designated as a center of excellence by the National Security Agency and The U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

"Cybersecurity skills that are studied in class really take hold through competitions like this where the students apply the tactics they've learned in a real-time environment to defend systems against different simulated cyber attacks," said Shankar Banik, head of The Citadel's Center for Cyber,Intelligence, and Security Studies. He is also The Citadel Graduate College director of computer science, and network security researcher.