On Saturday, Oct. 15, \u00a0Indiana Tech\u2019s collegiate cyber competition team, the Cyber Warriors, won its first-ever Great Lakes Regional of the Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition (CPTC) by outperforming second-place Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and third-place DePaul University.<\/p>\n
The win gives<\/span>\u00a0the Cyber Warriors<\/span>, who both finis<\/span>hed as<\/span>\u00a0a top 20 team globally for offens<\/span>ive cyber\u00a0s<\/span>ecurity, and the nation\u2019s<\/span> 12th-bes<\/span>t defens<\/span>ive cyber\u00a0s<\/span>ecurity team las<\/span>t year, a\u00a0s<\/span>econd\u00a0s<\/span>traight berth in the CPTC Global Finals<\/span>, which will be held at RIT in January 2024.<\/p>\n \u201cThis\u00a0year I am incredibly proud of our team\u2019s finish in just its third appearance in an offensive security event,\u201d said coach Matt Hansen, an Indiana Tech alum who was a championship-winning Cyber Warrior himself during his time as a Tech student. \u201cThis\u00a0is\u00a0a major upset in the competition, as\u00a0RIT is\u00a0traditionally a top-three powerhouse team. We made a\u00a0statement about Indiana Tech yesterday by knocking them down to 2nd\u00a0on the podium.\u201d<\/p>\n Over the years, the Cyber Warriors developed into a national powerhouse by performing well in competitions where defending a computer network from outside attacks is the objective. In penetration testing competitions, participating teams go on the offensive. They conduct real-world penetration testing engagements to find, exploit and suggest remediations for security vulnerabilities. These tests are similar to those performed by companies, professional services firms and internal security departments around the world preemptively hiring these professionals to break into their systems to know what vulnerabilities a real attacker might attempt to exploit.<\/p>\n Members of the Cyber Warriors\u2019 offensive security team are John Allen Rudolph, Garrett Bates<\/span>, Myles<\/span>\u00a0Nieman, Bryce Murphy, Zak King, Nia Iott,\u00a0S<\/span>amuel Regelbrugge and Jeremy MacRoberts<\/span>.<\/p>\n With January\u2019s CPTC Global Finals, the cyber competition season kicks off in earnest. The team will try to win its 10th<\/sup> straight and 17th<\/sup> overall Indiana Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition in January, with hopes of earning regional and national berths after that.<\/p>\n In the photo, he Cyber Warriors offensive security team, from left to right: Coach Matt Hansen, John Allen Rudolph, Garrett Bates<\/span>, Myles<\/span>\u00a0Nieman, Bryce Murphy, Samuel Regelbrugge and Nia Iott. Jeremy MacRoberts is not pictured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-156365","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n