The National Security Agency has announced that the US Military Academy won its 2014 Cyber Defense Exercise – CDX.
Students from the Air Force, Coast Guard, Military, Naval, and Merchant Marine Academies have been taking part in the challenge since 2001, testing their skills against NSA information assurance professionals. (Also participating, but not competing for the trophy, were the Naval Postgraduate School and the Royal Military College of Canada.)
“The CDX is an advanced cyber skill building exercise, unique in its breadth, and of vital importance in developing hands-on cyber defense skills within the US military,” said Neal Ziring, technical director for the Information Assurance Directorate, which organizes the event.
The event took place on virtual private networks. NSA challenged service academy teams to protect networks designed, built, and configured at the competing schools, which were graded on their ability to maintain network services while detecting, responding to and recovering from attacks.
