DSU’s cybersecurity team wins 2nd place in national cyber competition

A team from Dakota State University placed second in a national cyber security competition over the weekend.

DSU's team battled against nine other teams to win second place in the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition presented by Raytheon Intelligence & Space in San Antonio over April 21-23.

Students managed and defended networks while fending off hackers. More than 1,500 competitors from 171 schools across the U.S. participated in the nation's largest competition of its kind.

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DSU's team was beat out by the University of Central Florida team, but surpassed Stanford University, which placed third.

The team included:

• Shane Donahue, Cyber Operations from San Diego, California
• Jackson Heiberger, Cyber Operations/Network Security & Administration double major, from Beresford, South Dakota
• Jake Hince, Computer Science M.S. degree student from Buffalo, Minnesota
• Austen King, Cyber Operations, from Volga, South Dakota
• Annabelle Klosterman, Cyber Operations from Brandon, South Dakota
• Cody Mayer, Cyber Operations major from Sheldon, Iowa
• Gaelin Shupe, Computer Science master’s student from Boulder, Colorado
• Tyler Thomas, a Cyber Operations major from Forest Lake, Minnesota

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