{"id":4625,"date":"2011-10-12T10:12:47","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T14:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/2011\/10\/12\/computer-science-students-reach-finals-in-cybersecurity-competition\/"},"modified":"2016-10-05T15:47:27","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T19:47:27","slug":"computer-science-students-reach-finals-in-cybersecurity-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/computer-science-students-reach-finals-in-cybersecurity-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer Science Students Reach Finals in Cybersecurity Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A team of Computer Science students from the <a href=\"http:\/\/builds.cc\/\">BUILDS<\/a> program placed in the top ten out of 74 teams in the first round of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poly.edu\/csaw2011\/csaw-CTF\">CSAW Capture The Flag Cybersecurity Competition<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The competition is a contest designed to evaluate application security skills. Competitors attack vulnerable applications and solve offensive challenges. BUILDS is a student-run research lab and workshop that provides BU students with tools and resources for conducting collaborative student-led tech projects. <\/p>\n<p>By placing in the top ten, the team earned a spot for a four-person team for the finals in New York City in early November.<\/p>\n<p>The students were:<\/p>\n<p>Kyle Brogle &#8211; Computer Science \/ Mathematics<\/p>\n<p>Danny Cooper &#8211; Computer Science<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Crowell &#8211; Computer Engineering<\/p>\n<p>John-Nicholas Furst &#8211; Computer Engineering<\/p>\n<p>Monica Gribouski &#8211; Computer Science<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Mohn &#8211; Biomedical Engineering<\/p>\n<p>George Silvis &#8211; Mathematics \/ Ancient Greek<\/p>\n<p>Liam Wang &#8211; Computer Science<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of Computer Science students from the BUILDS program placed in the top ten out of 74 teams in the first round of the CSAW Capture The Flag Cybersecurity Competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3521,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[195,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4625"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3521"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4625"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20694,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4625\/revisions\/20694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}