"CISA and ONCD Award Champions of the Fourth Annual President's Cup Cybersecurity Competition"
The US Homeland Security Department's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) recently awarded the winners of the fourth annual President's Cup Cybersecurity Competition in a private ceremony at the White House. The individual winners are Ben Marks of the National Security Agency (NSA) and US Army Chief Warrant Officer 1 Andrew Fricke of the 781st Military Intelligence Battalion. The President's Cup, led and hosted by CISA, presents competitors with challenges based on the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) Framework Work Roles to identify, recognize, and reward the best cybersecurity talent in the federal workforce. Nearly 240 teams and over 1,100 individuals competed for the top rewards. The competition featured two individual tracks: one tested offensive skills, such as those required for the exploitation analyst and cyber operator NICE work roles, and the other tested defensive skills, such as those required for the incident response and forensics analyst work roles. This article continues to discuss the President's Cup Cybersecurity Competition.