"Annual EPIC App Challenge Invites Contestants to Showcase Cyber Defense Skills"

The annual Emerging Professionals in the Intelligence Community (EPIC) App Challenge welcomes corporate and individual contestants to demonstrate their analysis and critical thinking skills to technical leaders and senior executives in the Intelligence Community. The Challenge is sponsored by Microsoft and hosted by AFCEA and the Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA). The 2021 EPIC App Challenge has broadened the opening of acceptable solutions to include not only custom software applications but also demonstrations of security methods and digital forensics. Previous EPIC competitions focused only on developing software applications to address specific and relatively narrow national security technology challenges. However, the severity, complexity, and frequency of state and non-state cyberattacks call on the areas of focus to be changed. This year's Challenge aims to identify potential attacks, describe the attacks, demonstrate defenses against them, and more. This article continues to discuss the objective, requirements, and structure of the EPIC App Challenge. 

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