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Friday, May 08, 2020

Students in hackers' crosshairs at IBM Cyber Range Center

In Cambridge, MA, there’s a room where disasters can happen daily, where battles are fought, vulnerabilities are discovered, questions are raised and answered, and untold amounts of data and personal information are at risk.

It’s a drill this time, but the point being made is that it won’t always be a drill.

The room is IBM Security’s X-Force Command Cyber Range. Students from Miami University's College of Arts and Science, College of Engineering and Computing and the Farmer School of Business were there as part of a Boldly Creative grant funded through the Cybersecurity proposal.

Students, along with their professors, took part in an exercise usually reserved for C-suite executives willing to spend thousands of dollars to attend. Those participating were: Zaobo He, assistant professor in computing science and engineering; graduate student Josh Morgan, and senior Hanzhou Zhang (both in computer science and engineering); Arthur Carvalho, information systems and analytics professor; and Farmer School Information Systems and Analytics seniors Kyle Kofsky and Yefe Soriano.

The two-day event is designed to help educate the next generation of cyber-security professionals and give them a taste of the constant war of information being waged through firewalls, hacks, backdoors, and terminals.

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Spies among us.

Anonymous said...

6:12am, my thoughts precisely.

Anonymous said...


"..Zaobo He, assistant professor in computing science and engineering; and senior Hanzhou Zhang (both in computer science and engineering)."

Right on the money, 6:12 and 6:36. You would be amazed at what some of these two have access to, particularly the 'professor'. He's only been in the country since about 2014.