UOIT cybersecurity competition engages international audience

Online streaming viewers in the United States, Bermuda, Europe and around the world were focused on a unique UOIT cybersecurity competition as the Faculty of Business and Information Technology (FBIT) staged its second annual information systems security Capture the Flag competition (link to Capture the Flag awards ceremony). 

Capture the Flag was also open to students outside of UOIT both nationally and internationally. Joining the competition were participants from Sheridan College (Oakville, Ontario) and Turku University of Applied Sciences (Turku, Finland). 

“This year’s Capture the Flag event was a huge success and an invaluable opportunity for our Networking and Security students,” said Dr. Pamela Ritchie, Dean, FBIT. “Our external partnerships with companies such as Sentry Metrics and Symantec are invaluable to the faculty and really help to make this competition so successful. The added international element with the participation of students and faculty from Finland was especially exciting and shows how globally connected the FBIT and UOIT are.” 

The competition challenged approximately 40 students from all years of study in FBIT’s Networking and IT Security program to capitalize on their comprehensive knowledge in information security and networking to work together to secure an enterprise-scale information system.