{"id":72019,"date":"2017-12-08T16:07:34","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T02:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=72019"},"modified":"2020-01-15T13:38:31","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T23:38:31","slug":"west-oahu-students-cyberstart-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2017\/12\/08\/west-oahu-students-cyberstart-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"UH<\/abbr> West O\u02bbahu students among top tier in CyberStart Game Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

\"Student<\/p>\n

University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>–West Oʻahu<\/span><\/a> students competing in a seven-state online contest with more than 3,000 contestants represented the campus well, with six winning scholarships, and two placing in the top 100 contestants.<\/p>\n

The students were competing in CyberStart<\/a>, a cyber security assessment and exercise that tests student aptitude and helps develop skills. The game was developed by the SANS Institute, a leading provider of cyber security training and certifications for professionals working in government and commercial institutions.<\/p>\n

UH<\/abbr> West Oʻahu<\/span> students Marvin Buenafe<\/strong> and Edward Chang<\/strong>, placed in the top 100 contestants and won scholarships. Robert Kuakini, Derrick Le, Kevin Ryan<\/strong> and Catherine Sarte<\/strong> also earned scholarship awards.<\/p>\n

“The CENT<\/abbr> (Computing, Electronics and Networking Technology)\u00a0and ISA<\/abbr> (Information Security and Assurance)\u00a0classes that I\u2019ve taken from UHWO<\/abbr> and Honolulu Community College<\/a> have given me valuable information, such as introducing different sub-fields and focus courses related to cyber security,” said Buenafe, who finished 87 out of the 3,935 people that signed up.<\/p>\n

Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> students, ages 16 and above, competed with counterparts in Delaware, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, Rhode Island and Virginia in the CyberStart exercises. A report to Gov. David Ige shows Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> had a larger number of high scorers and scholarship winners on a per capita basis compared to other states.<\/p>\n

Read more at E Kamakani Hou<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

—By Greg Wiles<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Six students won scholarships and two placed in the top ten of the cyber security competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[446,749,62,660,59],"class_list":["post-72019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-computing-electronics-and-networking-technology","tag-cybersecurity","tag-honolulu-community-college","tag-student-recognition","tag-uh-west-oahu","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72019","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=72019"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109382,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72019\/revisions\/109382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}