powerhouse for cyber defense programs and is designated as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Education and a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Research. In 2021, the U.S. National Science Foundation awarded a $2.9 million grant to provide cybersecurity scholarships to undergraduate and graduate students. UCF also houses a Cyber Security and Privacy Research Faculty Cluster Initiative, which examines a breadth of interdisciplinary areas./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/137809/nThe CyberForce Competition is sponsored by the DOE/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/137809/u2019s Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER) and managed by Argonne National Laboratory (ANL). It started in 2016 to provide students with hands-on cybersecurity experience through interactive, energy cyber-focused scenarios./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/137809/n
In an increasingly digitized world, a skilled cybersecurity workforce becomes even more valuable to industry and the U.S. energy sector./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/137809/n
The Collegiate Cyber Defense Club at UCF, known as Hack@UCF, boasts 312 members./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/137809/n
The annual CyberForce Competition uses a hands-on security approach to engage students in emergency scenarios, and challenges students to safeguard the nation/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/137809/u2019s critical energy sector. This year, the scenario involved students working for a distributed energy resource (DER) management company./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/137809/n
This year/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/137809/u2019s winning teams consisted of the following students:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/137809/n
Team A (first place)
/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/137809/nJeffrey DiVincent /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/137809/u201923 (team captain)
/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/137809/nZachary Groome
/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/137809/nMatthew McKeever
/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/137809/nCaitlin Whitehead
/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/137809/nCameron Whitehead
/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/137809/nCaleb Wisley/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/137809/nTeam B (fourth place)
/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/137809/nHarrison Keating (team captain)
/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/137809/nMilo Gilad
/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/137809/nColton Knight
/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/137809/nNoah Magill
/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/137809/nCaleb Sjostedt
/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/137809/nAndrew Terry/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/137809/n