The UEX Eclipse team has secured the best result in the legal chapter of the challenge organized by the Benemérita.
The Eclipse team from the University of Cáceres (UEx) has secured the best result in the legal chapter of the challenge organized by the Benemérita and seventh place in the final challenge of the first National Cyberleague organized by the Civil Guard at the law enforcement agency’s University Center in Aranjuez (Madrid).
Only a hundred students out of a total of 1,400 participants reached the final phase of this competition. They had only one and a half hours to resolve several cyberattacks; they had to put themselves in the shoes of a company that has been hacked, find a vulnerable application on a network, and respond to a scam using information that the user claims is only available on that website.
The Eclipse team, consisting of 3 members from UEX, 3 from computer science, the sisters from Malpartida, Carmen Carrero, a 4th-year Computer Science student, and Belén Carrero, a Law graduate, Iván Orantos, a 4th-year Computer Science student from Badajoz, Juan Manuel Mancera, a 4th-year computer science student from Almendralejo, Badajoz; along with their mentors, Raúl Beamud, Corporate Cybersecurity Architect at Telefónica, Madrid, and Selva Orejón, Executive Director of onBRANDING, Barcelona.
Internet crimes have increased by 321.6% since 2011 according to data from the Ministry of the Interior; therefore, the response to this type of crime must be global, and for this reason, the Civil Guard has launched this 1st League of cyberspace challenges to provide a global response among cybersecurity specialists.
The 1st National CyberLeague featured the presence of 40 mentors, professionals who selflessly provided their support to the teams. This group of mentors consisted of hackers, pentesters, computer forensics experts, programmers, lawyers, criminologists, cyber investigators, specialists in OSINT and PRIVINT, journalists, forensic linguists, and reputation specialists.
A company may resolve its security incident very well, but it may disappear because the trust of its users has plummeted, and its reputation along with it.
The 2 finalist teams from UEX, Eclipse and UNEX4, are made up of students between 18 and 24 years old from the UEX Faculty of Law and Computer Engineering, proposed by UEX senior lecturer Mr. Andrés Caro, director of the VIEWNEXT Chair and organizer of the V National Cybersecurity Research Conference (JNIC).
The championship to attract young talent was visited by the acting Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, who advocated for “developing a true culture of cybersecurity among everyone.”
The minister agreed with the Minister of Science, Innovation, and Universities, Pedro Duque, in highlighting the talent of young Spanish university students and the importance of raising awareness about the risks of cyber threats and challenges such as artificial intelligence.
Grande-Marlaska congratulated the Civil Guard for promoting these types of initiatives which, “by merging youth and university with concepts such as cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and the Internet, demonstrate knowledge of the present and sensitivity for the future.”
