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Tuesday, November 19, 2019 at 07:00

The URJC Zer0limits team, finalist in the National Cyberleague

This team is made up entirely of students from the Cybersecurity Engineering Degree at the URJC's Higher Technical School of Computer Engineering (ETSII) and has participated this weekend in the final phase of the competition, held at the University Center of the Civil Guard, in Aranjuez.

Alberto Sanchez Lozano

The team representing the URJC has concluded the competition with 480 points, finishing in ninth place among the twenty-one multidisciplinary teams classified for the last phase, in addition to the six participants who have competed individually. The URJC team was made up entirely of ETSII students.

In the team modality, the four classified for the last phase, an exhibition of their project before a court, were from the University of Zaragoza, the Autonomous University of Madrid, the University of Granada and the Polytechnic University of Madrid. The group from Granada was the one that finally emerged as the winner, thanks to its good work exposing before the court that evaluated the four classified. In the individual category, the winner was José Ignacio García Gómez, from the Autonomous University of Madrid.

The final of this contest began this Thursday, November 14, at the University Center that the Civil Guard has in Aranjuez, with the participation of all the teams classified for this great final. The contenders in this event came from different universities from all over the country, among them the representatives of the URJC.

The day opened with a short welcome talk by Fernando Moure, director of the University Center of the Civil Guard (CUGC), and the person in charge of organizing the National CyberLeague of the Civil Guard. After her, the young people from all the participating teams began with the first activity of the final and visited the employability fair, in which the sponsors of the competition showed their job offers for the best classified.

After the first part of the final, it was time for an informal lunch, before continuing with the 'masterclass' and the conferences of the experts and mentors present. Already on the following day, the twenty teams participating in this final had the second challenge of the competition, in which the four teams that would participate in the exhibition before the court that would decide the winner were decided.

Presence of Pedro Duque and Fernando Grande-Marlaska

The Ministers of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, and of Science, Innovation and Universities, Pedro Duque; were present at the inauguration of this event, which was held in parallel to the II International Cyberintelligence Conference, entitled 'Artificial Intelligence, a new leap in evolution towards the generation of more efficient Cyberintelligence'.

Both wanted to know the work that the attendees were doing at these cyberintelligence conferences, in addition to meeting the mentors and participants in the first edition of the National Cyberleague, which confirmed the team from the University of Granada as the best among the twenty present in Aranjuez, in an edition with a lot of talent and level to promote cybersecurity and intelligence in cyberspace.