"Department of Energy CyberForce Competition 2023: Cultivating Tomorrow's Cybersecurity Leaders Today"
The US Department of Energy (DOE) is boosting its efforts to cultivate a well-equipped energy cybersecurity workforce through a hands-on Operational Technology (OT) cybersecurity competition involving real-world challenges. The DOE invites teams of college and university students to participate in the in-person ninth edition of its CyberForce Competition on November 4. It is sponsored by the DOE's Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER) and led by the DOE's Argonne National Laboratory (ANL). The event aims to improve cyber OT education by providing students with a unique opportunity to apply classroom and lab knowledge in a high-stakes scenario designed to simulate a workplace experience. The competition raises awareness of the relationship between critical infrastructure and cybersecurity, as well as the opportunities to use computer science or cybersecurity education to protect the systems that ensure the economic and national security of the US. This article continues to discuss the DOE's CyberForce Competition.
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