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UAE university students win cyber warfare challenge
Lockheed Martin executive vice-president Richard H Edwards (centre ), poses with the winning team of UAE University at the Dubai Air Show on Tuesday.

Dubai - The 20 participating students were drawn from the UAE University, Abu Dhabi Polytechnic, Khalifa University and Shaikh Zayed University.

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Bernd Debusmann Jr.
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Published: Tue 10 Nov 2015, 11:00 PM

Last updated: Thu 12 Nov 2015, 9:20 AM

American aviation giant Lockheed Martin awarded a group of UAE University students for winning a cyber security competition in which four teams of students had to practise fending off a hypothetical cyber attack on an oil and gas facility.
The challenge was held on Monday and Tuesday at Lockheed Martin's Centre for Innovation and Security Solutions in Masdar City, with the award ceremony taking place at the Dubai Airshow on Tuesday.
The 20 participating students were drawn from the UAE University, Abu Dhabi Polytechnic, Khalifa University and Shaikh Zayed University.
Dr Ahmed Bakhsh, Lockheed Martin's Director of International Engineering and Technology, said: "We try to make it as real as possible, so we used the infrastructure of an oil and gas facility and we simulated a breach into the network that effects its Scada (supervisory control and data acquisition system)," he said.
"The challenge for the students is to detect where the penetration happened in the system and identify who the attacker is."
Among the members of the winning team was 29-year old Seif Alaryani, a Masters student in UAE University's information security programme. "I absolutely want this as a career. Cyber security isn't new, but the field is developing," he said.
"The UAE is now doing well in this field, especially with the creation of the the National Electronic Security Authority," Alaryani added.
bernd@khaleejtimes.com

Bernd Debusmann Jr.

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