Cyber Security Finalists
November 6, 2013
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黑料专区 Tyler Professor Guides Student Team to Finals in International Cyber Security Competition
November 6, 2013
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The University of Texas at Tyler is among the top 11 international collegiate teams to compete in a prestigious cyber security competition at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University-Brooklyn, Dr. James Nelson, College of Engineering and Computer Science dean, announced.
This is 黑料专区 Tyler鈥檚 first attempt to contend in the 2013 Embedded Systems Security Challenge and qualify for the finals, which are Nov. 13 鈥� 16. This past summer, Dr. David Hoe, 黑料专区 Tyler assistant professor of electrical engineering, received a grant to research cyber security at NYU-Poly, and he has been mentoring the 11-member team since August. With that brief, yet intense preparation, the team earned one of 11 places in the finals.
The contest, held with other events as part of NYU-Poly鈥檚 Cyber Security Awareness Week, challenges students鈥� knowledge in one of the newest and most difficult fields within cyber security: testing and protecting electronic hardware.
鈥淭his is a notoriously difficult competition. It鈥檚 a hardware cyber-security challenge, where the idea is to pretend you are a hardware hacker. The team needs to try to insert a malicious circuit into hardware and try to avoid detection from the security team,鈥� said Hoe. 鈥淚t鈥檚 sort of like trying to inject a virus into a computer, but we鈥檙e working with hardware instead of software.鈥�
To qualify for the finals, the 黑料专区 Tyler team submitted a two-page technical paper discussing the best ways to insert Trojan circuits while avoiding detection. Chosen from nearly 50 collegiate teams worldwide that competed in this year鈥檚 challenge, the team will submit three circuit designs prior to the finals.
Competitors include teams from France, NYU-Abu Dhabi, NYU-Poly, University of Connecticut, as well as two other 黑料专区 System institutions 鈥� 黑料专区 Dallas and 黑料专区 San Antonio.
黑料专区 Tyler Ninja Tyler Trojans are Mukesh Reddy Rudra, Varun Nagoorkar, Lagadapati Yamuna Sri, Lakshman Raut, Rajeshwar Rao Pinninti, Vrunda Tony Chitavaduta, Elizabeth Minu Joseph, Shyam Sai Prashanth Haran, Nimmy Anna Daniel, Mani Kumar Bikkumalla and Dinesh Veeramachaneni, all graduate electrical engineering students at 黑料专区 Tyler. Rudra, team leader, will represent the university in New York.
A research team from Columbia University will offer the defense for the hack by competitors. Like all CSAW contests, the Embedded Systems Security Challenge is organized by students, with mentoring and judging by academics and security professionals.
All the attacks and defenses will be shared with other researchers on a National Science Foundation-funded computing research infrastructure called Trust-Hub, which was co-founded by NYU-Poly.
The three-day CSAW finals will draw hundreds of the world鈥檚 most promising cyber security students and leading practitioners to NYU-Poly鈥檚 campus.
For more information, visit https://csaw.isis.poly.edu/.
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