{"id":203956,"date":"2021-03-16T13:18:19","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T13:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/?p=30026"},"modified":"2024-08-10T20:29:44","modified_gmt":"2024-08-11T00:29:44","slug":"cyberseed-returns-in-virtual-format","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2021\/03\/cyberseed-returns-in-virtual-format\/","title":{"rendered":"CyberSEED Returns in Virtual Format"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>By: Eli Freund, Editorial <\/strong><strong>Communications Manager, UConn School of Engineering<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After a postponement last year, the annual CyberSEED event, hosted by Synchrony and The Connecticut Advanced Computing Center (CACC), is back on in a 100 percent virtual format.<\/p>\n<p>CyberSEED 2021, which will take place on March 27, from 8:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m., will host teams from schools all over the United States, who will compete in a Capture the Flag-style competition focusing on a variety of cybersecurity challenges including a set of flags focusing on reverse engineering, web application security, network traffic analysis, cryptography, amongst others on the Cyber Skyline platform.<\/p>\n<p>Student teams of 2-4 people will have the opportunity to win cash prices of between $250 to $3,000, hear from a panel of experts, and also get a chance to meet and hear from Synchrony\u2019s own Chief Information Security Officer\u00a0Gleb Reznik. The top three winners from last year\u2019s competition included: Drexel University, University of Maryland, and New York University.<\/p>\n<p>Registration is open until March 20. For more information on the event, and to register, please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcyberseed.org%2F&amp;data=04%7C01%7Celi.freund%40uconn.edu%7C9ad7a7cf41104babfd2f08d8e3f4d2de%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C637509987935730788%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=ptQEzqaFxoEiA8tMAufqRgx0lZBjJb5mN7srMbxkB%2B8%3D&amp;reserved=0\">cyberseed.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a postponement last year, the annual CyberSEED event, hosted by Synchrony and The Connecticut Advanced Computing Center (CACC), is back on in a 100 percent virtual format.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":217025,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1866],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2110],"class_list":["post-203956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engr"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-08 00:17:53","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203956"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217036,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203956\/revisions\/217036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/217025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203956"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=203956"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=203956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}