http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/011711-uk-cyber-challenge-aims-to.html By Jeremy Kirk IDG News Service January 17, 2011 Paul Laverack of London is an actor, but he's considering a possible career change -- to computer security. It's a somewhat unlikely career transition, but is one of the many examples of how a country-wide competition designed to spur interest in computer security, the U.K. Cyber Security Challenge, is already working as intended. Launched last year, the challenge is a series of competitions that anyone can enter, in fields ranging from digital forensics to network security. More than 4,000 people registered to be part of the program, including Laverack, who won one of the competitions, the DC3 Digital Forensics Challenge. Laverack, who lives in East London, has never been employed in IT and has a degree in psychology. For the forensics challenge, he completed a series of increasingly difficult tasks from doing rudimentary file analysis to recovering the partition of a hard drive. As part of the prize, he will get to attend a week-long security academy hosted by the security vendor Detica that is usually for the company's new recruits. [...] ___________________________________________________________ Tegatai Managed Colocation: Four Provider Blended Tier-1 Bandwidth, Fortinet Universal Threat Management, Natural Disaster Avoidance, Always-On Power Delivery Network, Cisco Switches, SAS 70 Type II Datacenter. Find peace of mind, Defend your Critical Infrastructure. http://www.tegataiphoenix.com/Received on Mon Jan 17 2011 - 23:54:22 PST
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