NSA Codebreaker Challenge (September, 2022)
NSA Sponsored hacking competition
2022 Challenge Scenario
A US company has been crippled by a ransomware attack, and NSA is standing by to provide technical assistance to FBI agents responding.
Your mission is to:
- Investigate the attack and discover the tools and techniques used Unravel and expose
- Ransomware-as-a-Service ring
- Recover the victim’s files and save the day
For more information and to register go Here
Flyer for this event: Open Flyer PDF
Teaching Associate Professor, Academic Director for Cyber Security, University of Denver
Research includes networking, network security, software security and systems.
Interested in a formal cybersecurity or computer science degree?
The University of Denver is proud to offer multiple programs in cybersecurity, whether you
want to be a manager or a frontline cyber warrior! Check out our program offerings at the
DU Cybersecurity Page. We also have a cybersecurity
concentration you can get on your way to a
Computer Science degree! You can
also email us if you want to learn more!
The programs in the
Ritchie School of Engineering and Computer Science
are strongly technically grounded, and provide a CS/Cyber education for the future of
cybersecurity.
Accreditation
The University of Denver is recognized as an NSA (National Security Agency) CAE-CD
(Center of Academic Excellence – Cyber Defense). The NSA evaluates and accredits
institutions providing cybersecurity degrees and curricula — a rigorous and prestigious
validation performed by security experts and members of other educational institutions. It
means the coursework of the Cybersecurity MS program at DU aligns with criteria mapped to
the US government's NICE framework knowledge units.
More information can be found at the official NSA academic site
here.