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Nyc Students, Hackers Train For Cybersecurity Jobs
Julian Cohen, a senior at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University, started a weekly "Hack Night" to help students sharpen their cybersecurity skills.
Credit: Associated Press
The Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) hosts Hack Night once a week to train students to become "white-hat" hackers. Hack Night also is a cybersecurity club, which holds an annual hacking competition the school says is the largest U.S. event of its kind. Students gain the skills needed to help business and government agencies protect data from cyberattacks.
"Every one of the faculty, every one of the undergraduates, and every one of the graduate students is engaged in real-world exercises," says SANS Institute director Alan Paller. "They come out having actually developed and tested their skills." A critical shortage exists for cybersecurity experts with real-world training, according to Paller, who notes the U.S. Department of Homeland Security alone needs 600 such experts. The Department of Defense last month announced plans to form a series of cyberteams that will execute offensive operations to combat cyberthreats targeting critical U.S. infrastructure.
NYU-Poly students also participate in bug-bounty programs, increasingly offered by companies to reward cybersecurity researchers who breach systems and point out system vulnerabilities.
From The Associated Press
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