The team from University of Maryland, Baltimore County won the national DOE CyberForce Competition.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced University of Maryland, Baltimore County as the national winner of DOE’s fifth CyberForce Competition, held on Nov. 16, 2019, at 10 of the national laboratories across America. The competition challenged 105 collegiate teams to build simulated energy infrastructure and defend it from cyberattacks.
The 2019 event challenged teams to defend one of four realistic system scenarios — an energy company’s solar generation facility, electric substation, high performance computing center, or manufacturing plant — while communicating with the other three infrastructures to monitor and maintain the integrity of the system. Each team was scored on its ability to safeguard against attacks while ensuring the system’s usability.
Argonne hosted 24 of the 105 collegiate teams with University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, placing first locally.
First place regional winner University of Central Florida.
This year, DOE also hosted a CyberForce Competition Professional Pilot at Argonne to coincide with the collegiate competition, in which a team of experienced cyber defenders tested their cyber prowess in a similar cyber-defense simulation.
