据防务快讯4月8日报道

美国“国家安全局网络演习”（NCX）2021大奖赛于4月7日开始，参赛者来自于军兵种学院、高等军事院校及国家安全局的实习生，共计13个单位的200名学生参加，赛期为3天。NCX是国家安全局最重要的网络演习，旨在为美国国防打造下一代网络勇士和防御者，通过竞赛演习来教育、培训、检验来自这些军事院校的学生以及国安局优选雇员的网络技能。网络演习会为参赛者循环提供预测性的和意外突发的网络攻防场景，测试敏捷对抗能力。设计的一系列模块，可以检验学生们的专门网络安全技能，也演示团队合作、规划、通信和决策能力。前两天竞赛以鉴证、政策、加密和逆向工程内容为主，第三天是决赛，以小组之间的实战网络攻防对抗为主要内容，通过基于场景的连续实战对抗，决出优胜者。

Newest Cyber Warriors Vie For Top NSA Trophy

Teams will face a series of rigorous challenges over three days as they compete to win the prestigious NCX trophy.

By   BRAD D. WILLIAMSon April 08, 2021 BREAKING DEFENSE

NSA headquarters

WASHINGTON: The 2021 competition for the prestigious National Security Agency Cyber Exercise (NCX) trophy begins today. The three-day event is part of an integrated cybersecurity program for students at U.S. service academies, senior military colleges, and some NSA interns.

This year’s event features more than 200 students from 13 different organizations and will be held virtually, at a closed site in Columbia, Maryland.

“NCX is NSA’s premier cyber exercise that builds the next generation of cyber warriors and defenders, ensuring our national defense,” Diane Janosek, commandant for NSA’s National Cryptologic School, told me. “Through NCX, NSA helps to educate, train, and test the cyber skills of U.S. service academy cadets and midshipmen, as well as teams from the senior military colleges and select NSA employees. We look forward to another great competition.”

NCX provides both predictive and unexpected scenarios that require agility against the background of an ever-evolving cyber landscape, Janosek said. It’s a series of modules designed to test participants’ technical cybersecurity skills, as well as demonstrate teamwork, planning, communication, and decision-making.

On Thursday and Friday, participants will compete in modules focused on forensics, policy, cryptography, and reverse engineering, Janosek said. Saturday is the final cyber combat exercise, “a scenario-based continuous live-fire computer network attack-and-defend team against team exercise, which allows participants to test their cyber skills against each other.”

The winner will be the service academy or senior military college that scores the most points across the three-day cyber competition.

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