Carnegie Mellon CyLab

The Carnegie Mellon CyLab Security and Privacy Institute is a computer security research center at Carnegie Mellon University.[1][2] Founded in 2003 as a university-wide research center, it involves more than 50 faculty and 100 graduate students from different departments and schools within the university.[3] It is "one of the largest university-based cyber security research and education centers in the U.S."[4]

CyLab works with the CERT Coordination Center as well as US-CERT on matters relating to cybersecurity.[5] The institute is often cited for its security and privacy research.[6][7][8][9][10]

picoCTF

picoCTF is a cybersecurity capture the flag competition hosted by CyLab. Established in 2013, the event is run annually over a period of two weeks and is geared towards high schoolers, billing itself as the largest high school cybersecurity event in the United States; the inaugural edition had 6,000 participants and 39,000 people competed in 2019.[11] The challenges, which are modeled around real-life cybersecurity problems, are themed around a different storyline each year.[12] The program aims to get high schoolers interested in computer security, offering cash prizes.[13]

CyLab website


References

  1. ^ "Cylab at Carnegie Mellon University". US-CERT, U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Archived from the original on August 21, 2016. Retrieved August 5, 2016.
  2. ^ Lindquist, Christopher (15 January 2004). "Security Supergroup: Carnegie Mellon's CyLab combines experts into an information security powerhouse". CIO: The Resource for Information Executives. CXO Media, Inc. Retrieved August 5, 2016.
  3. ^ "CyLab - Cybersecurity Capacity Portal". The University of Oxford. Archived from the original on September 18, 2016. Retrieved August 5, 2016.
  4. ^ "About CyLab". Carnegie Mellon Cylab. Retrieved August 5, 2016.
  5. ^ "Carnegie Mellon CyLab Overview". Carnegie Mellon University College of Engineering. Archived from the original on August 31, 2016. Retrieved August 5, 2016.
  6. ^ Chirgwin, Richard (May 24, 2016). "Want a better password? Pretend you eat kale. We won't tell anyone". The Register. Retrieved August 5, 2016.
  7. ^ Weisman, Steve (September 12, 2015). "Is your child already a victim of identity theft?". USA Today. Retrieved August 5, 2016.
  8. ^ "McAfee and Carnegie Mellon Report Finds Serious Disconnect Between Businesses and Mobile Users". McAfee, Intel Security. May 24, 2011. Retrieved August 5, 2016.
  9. ^ Hill, Kashmir (December 17, 2015). "The university that broke the Dark Web is still running Tor nodes—but it's not what it appears". Fusion. Archived from the original on August 23, 2016. Retrieved August 5, 2016.
  10. ^ "New Research Reveals Cyber Risk Still Not Getting Adequate Attention from Boards and Senior Executives". EMC Corporation. February 27, 2012. Retrieved August 5, 2016.
  11. ^ Doughty, Nate (March 15, 2022). "Carnegie Mellon University's high school cybersecurity hacking competition picoCTF begins". PIttsburgh Inno. American City Business Journals. Retrieved March 16, 2022.
  12. ^ "Carnegie Mellon University to launch picoCTF cybersecurity event next week". Security. March 12, 2021. Retrieved March 16, 2022.
  13. ^ Sostek, Anya (April 9, 2017). "Wanted: hackers. Reward: the best may get a spot at CMU". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved March 16, 2022.


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