Collegiate Cyberdefense Teams News

Graduate student Michael Roberts ’19 beat more than 450 students from across the nation in the U.S. Department of Energy’s 2020 CyberForce Competition.

Ranked among the top 30 universities in the nation for cybersecurity programs, UCF’s pipeline of talent and research into the “good side” of the cyber world has never been more important than it is at this moment.

As one of the university’s most decorated programs, the UCF Collegiate Cybersecurity Competition Team finishes runner-up for the third year in a row.

The facility serves as a learning hub and classroom for cybersecurity students, and serves as a practice center for the decorated student club Hack@UCF.

The Collegiate Cybersecurity Competition team, known as Hack@UCF, also took 1st place in its regional matchups at Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago.

The Knights advanced to the final round and placed third in their first competition as a team at the Wicked6 Cyber Games in Las Vegas.

The team, which is a part of the university’s decorated Hack@UCF club, will be the only all-female squad to compete at the Wicked6 Cyber Games in Las Vegas this week.

After winning the southeast region’s competition earlier this month, UCF place second nationally for the second year in a row.

College of Engineering and Computer Science students defeat 65 other schools competing at seven sites across the United States.