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ISACA to co-host cybersecurity competition

ROLLING MEADOWS - Global IT and cybersecurity association ISACA and The Center for Infrastructure Assurance and Security will host new CSX Cyber Challenge competitions at ISACA's upcoming CSX conferences around the world.

The CSX Cyber Challenge will be held at all of ISACA's CSX 2016 conferences. The first of these new global competitions will be held at ISACA's event Oct. 17-19 in Las Vegas, Nevada. ISACA debuted the CSX conference last year to a sold-out audience and expanded to two more locations this year, Oct. 31-Nov, 2 in London, and Nov. 14-16 in Singapore.

The CSX Cyber Challenge is an opportunity for beginner or intermediate level competitors to practice both offensive and defensive skills, and improve their performance. The target environments are made up of a variety of operating systems and applications - giving participants a wide range of opportunities to exercise existing skills or learn new ones. These competitions provide a place to test out new tools, scripts, techniques, and exploits in a controlled, low-risk environment.

The games provide an opportunity for employers to verify participants' skills and benefit from the tools and tactics they acquire and bring back to their enterprises.

"IT and cybersecurity competitions go beyond traditional educational platforms and encourage professional development and cyber security training outside the classroom," said Christos K. Dimitriadis, Ph.D., CISA, CISM, CRISC, chair of ISACA's board of directors and group director of Information Security for INTRALOT. "By offering the CSX Cyber Challenge at our CSX conferences, we are tapping into creative methods by which professionals and students are learning and developing skills today. And, healthy competition is fun, while it forces collaboration among peers or teammates."

The CSX Cyber Challenge is a network assessment and network defense competition, in which individuals compete for control of common resources and their critical services.

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