The team “DICE” consisting of the following four students won the [Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Award] at the “15th Information Crisis Management Contest” (supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, the National Police Agency, etc.)!
This is the second school to receive the Minister’s Award for a technical college team since the 12th Kisarazu National College of Technology.
Participating members
Department of Information Science 1st Year Takamichi Omori
Department of Information Science 1st Year Ryoha Hoda
Department of Information Engineering, 5th year, Hana Takahashi
Department of Information Engineering 3rd Year Naoki Ikeguchi
This contest is a competitive event for students held in parallel with the “Shirahama Symposium on Cybercrime” held every year in Shirahama.
Participating teams are required to become server administrators of client companies, investigate the causes of cyberattacks that occur in real time during the competition by operating actual servers and network equipment, take countermeasures, and finally compile a report.
This time, the first qualifying round, the second qualifying round, and the final (May 30) were all held remotely. Five teams made it to the finals: Nagoya Institute of Technology, Shizuoka University, Waseda University, and Kansai University.
In the finals, two students from Toyota National College of Technology and two regular course students from their homes each used VPN (Virtual Private Network) from their homes, connected to the competition network of Wakayama University, the host school, and four students worked together on WebEX (Cisco’s video conferencing system). We spent almost one day investigating the cause of the cyberattack and taking countermeasures.
