Communications of the ACM
Hacking Contest Seeks to Attract Women to Information Security
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The Power of Community (POC2012) security conference in Seoul recently held the final round of a hacking contest called the Power of XX, a women-only skills competition intended to spark interest in computer science among young women.
The competition included 48 five-member teams that worked to solve challenges in areas such as Web application attacks, programming, system hacking, and cryptography. The challenges were designed with neophytes in mind, compared to other hacking competitions that are generally designed for experts in the field.
A perception exists that women are not necessarily as good as men in terms of computer skills, notes a male contest organizer. There are distinct differences between how men and women approach computer science problems, according to POC2012 organizer Jeong-hoon Shin. Women tend to be more detail oriented, work slower, and think more about the problems, while men tend to rush through the problems with less thought, Shin says. "The most important things are patience, endurance, and taking on new challenges," notes female computer science student Jeong-jinn Kang.
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