Northrop Grumman Announces Winners of UK's CyberCenturion Competition to Find Cyber Security Talent of the Future
May 05 2016 - 7:10AM
Company congratulates 2016
CyberCenturion Winners and highlights the global need for increased
STEM and cyber education
LONDON, May 5, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Northrop
Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) announces the winners of the 2016
CyberCenturion national finals, a team competition in a
high-pressure, face-to-face cyber defence scenario against the
clock. The competition is one of many initiatives led by Northrop
Grumman to help identify the best young cyber talent.
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The national final was held in the National Museum
of Computing at Bletchley Park and was won by G-Sec, a team from
Bayside Comprehensive School, Gibraltar.
CyberCenturion is the U.K.'s first team-based
cyber security contest specifically designed to attract 12-18 year
olds. Delivered in partnership with Cyber Security Challenge U.K.,
the competition aims to engage talented young people with an
interest in cyber as a way to address the national skills gap in
science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) subjects
and encourage careers in cyber security.
The ten teams in the finals, who competed against
hundreds of players from across the UK and Overseas Territories
over three qualifying rounds, were tasked to defend a fictitious
newly created Internet of Things (IoT) business which was
vulnerable to cyber attacks. The scenario tasked contestants to
analyse the company's network and identify and remediate security
flaws across different operating systems - much like those found in
businesses across the country today.
"There is a huge pool of untapped talent and
enthusiasm for STEM subjects among young people and we believe we
can use our world-leading expertise in cyber to help dramatically
boost the UK's STEM skills base," added Andrew Tyler, Chief
Executive Europe, Northrop Grumman. "We are addressing this issue
around the world and in addition to CyberCenturion in Europe and
CyberPatriot in the US, we now also have CyberArabia in the Middle
East, each aimed at developing talent and helping inspire and
enable young people to pursue a career in cyber security. It is
critical for the future of our global infrastructure that young
people are engaged and that the talent pipeline is filled in this
important area."
"This year we saw double the number of teams
signing up to play; a fantastic result and one we'd like to see
again in the third year of the competition," said Stephanie Daman,
CEO at Cyber Security Challenge UK. "With an expected deficit of
1.5 million unfulfilled jobs in cyber globally by 2020, we need to
get children interested in cyber at an early age and the diversity
of jobs in the sector means we need individuals from different
backgrounds, interests and areas too."
CyberCenturion is the U.K. version of the proven
CyberPatriot competition, part of a major U.S. national youth cyber
STEM education programme presented by the Northrop Grumman
Foundation and created by the Air Force Association. It is part of
the company's commitment to promoting STEM education and to helping
build the U.K.'s pool of talent in cyber security. The CyberPatriot
competition in the U.S. has already engaged more than300,000
children, educating them on the opportunities in cyber security
across the U.S. Eighty percent of those who have taken part in
CyberPatriot now plan to pursue a higher education course in cyber
or STEM .
The competition was modelled after the U.S.
CyberPatriot Youth Cyber Defense Competition, a programme created
by the Air Force Association, a nonprofit organisation advocating
for education, and presented by the Northrop Grumman
Foundation.
To find out more about CyberCenturion go to:
https://cybersecuritychallenge.org.uk
Northrop Grumman is a leading provider of
full-spectrum cyber solutions to the United States government and
to allied nations around the world. The company builds cyber into
every system, platform, and product that it produces in order to
enhance mission assurance and resiliency, while investing both in
innovative technology and cyber talent of the future. For
information about careers in cyber in the U.K., go to
http://www.northropgrumman.com/careers.
Northrop Grumman is a leading global security
company providing innovative systems, products and solutions in
autonomous systems, cyber, C4ISR, strike, and logistics and
modernisation to government and commercial customers worldwide.
Please visit www.northropgrumman.com for more information.
CONTACT:
Ken Beedle
+44 (0) 207 747 1910 (office)
+44 (0) 7787 174092 (mobile)
ken.beedle@euro.ngc.com
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