{"id":31466,"date":"2015-02-05T14:17:54","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T00:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=31466"},"modified":"2021-10-06T13:35:02","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T23:35:02","slug":"honolulu-cc-students-excel-in-national-cyber-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2015\/02\/05\/honolulu-cc-students-excel-in-national-cyber-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Honolulu <abbr title=\"Community College\">CC<\/abbr> students excel in national cyber competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_31469\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31469\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/honolulu-cent-team-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"274\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/honolulu-cent-team-.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/honolulu-cent-team--260x115.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31469\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Honolulu Community College CENT student team<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p class=\"clear-photo\">A team of students from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.honolulu.hawaii.edu\/cent\">Computing, Electronics and Networking Technologies<\/a> (<abbr>CENT<\/abbr>) program at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.honolulu.hawaii.edu\/\">Honolulu Community College<\/a> finished 7th in the nation in the gold division of the fall 2014 season of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalcyberleague.org\/index.shtml\">National Cyber League<\/a> (<abbr>NCL<\/abbr>). The team was anchored by Honolulu <abbr>CC<\/abbr> students <strong>Eric Kotake<\/strong> who placed 3rd, <strong>Taylor Kina<\/strong> who placed 76th and <strong>Joe Lee<\/strong> who placed 103rd overall out of 822 national competitors.<\/p>\n<p>The National Cyber League is a cybersecurity competition that runs in a similar fashion to a collegiate athletic event. Students participating in the competition are provided with an online virtual gymnasium to practice their cyber skills and an online stadium in which the competitions are run in. There are three brackets&#8212;novice (bronze), intermediate (silver) and experienced players (gold).<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&#8217;re proud of all the players from over 145 colleges and universities that competed in the <abbr>NCL<\/abbr> season,&rdquo; states Casey O&rsquo;Brien, commissioner of the National Cyber League. &ldquo;In addition to working through customized content in the <abbr>NCL<\/abbr> gyms, these students had to rigorously demonstrate knowledge and skills based on various industry-recognized performance objectives.&rdquo; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A second Honolulu <abbr>CC<\/abbr> team, <abbr>HCC<\/abbr>-Makai, also competed in the fall 2014 <abbr>NCL<\/abbr> season and finished 17th in the bronze division.<\/p>\n<p>At Honolulu Community College, <abbr>CENT<\/abbr> Professor <strong>Aaron Tanaka<\/strong> used the <abbr>NCL<\/abbr> gym exercises and the <abbr>NCL<\/abbr> competition to enhance a <abbr>CENT<\/abbr> course on ethical hacking.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;At Honolulu <abbr>CC<\/abbr> we are strong advocates of hands-on learning and really appreciate the interactive and dynamic nature of <abbr>NCLM\/abbr>. We feel that just by participating in the competition, all our students gained in their quest of becoming cybersecurity professionals,&rdquo; shares Tanaka.<\/abbr><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Billie Lueder<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honolulu <abbr>CC<\/abbr> students placed 7th in the nation in the Fall 2014 National Cyber League competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[446,749,62,660],"class_list":["post-31466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-computing-electronics-and-networking-technology","tag-cybersecurity","tag-honolulu-community-college","tag-student-recognition","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31466"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149308,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31466\/revisions\/149308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}