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Raul Garcia Hemonnet
Diego Palacios and Inés Martín are 4th and 3rd Cybersecurity students, respectively. Both have been selected to represent Spain in the team that will participate in the European Championship that will take place from September 13 to 19 in the Austrian capital.
URJC students and their classmates will face teams from all over the continent, testing their different abilities detecting vulnerabilities, investigating computer attacks or finding passwords and hidden information, among other aspects.
They will compete in 'Jeopardy' and 'Attack and Defense' type events. The first consists of a simple and common model, with different categories of scoring challenges of different difficulty, such as cryptography, reverse engineering, web exploitation, forensic analysis, hardware, etc. The goal is to get the highest number of points. In the second, each country will have to defend an infrastructure with vulnerabilities, while trying to penetrate the infrastructure of the rest of the competitors, that is, the teams have flags that they must protect from their opponents while trying to get their own.
Both Diego and Inés have been selected for the team by the National Institute of Cybersecurity, the body behind the Spanish participation in this competition.
Both students passed 2 technical tests and a personal interview in which they had to talk about their strengths and what they can contribute to the team.
Inés Martín, a 4th year Cybersecurity Engineering student, wants to “do the best we can and be able to give visibility to the effort behind it, which cannot be seen”. In addition, this young woman wants to “be able to work well as a team in situations of great stress”, such as this European Championship. Inés really wants to live "this international experience with people from many countries in Europe and others like the United States, and contact different cultures and ways of seeing cybersecurity." Inés has been designated as team captain, so she will have to act as coordinator, talk to the judges, and ensure that everything develops optimally.
For his part, Diego Palacios, "is proud to be part of the national team and the tournament will be an opportunity to learn to meet people and hang out." This aspect, this 3rd year Cybersecurity Engineering student considers, is very important when facing a tournament like this, "when there are synergies and communication in the team, it is when you go the furthest". For Diego it is also important to represent the URJC "which makes a strong commitment to Cybersecurity Engineering". The young man is optimistic about the tournament, "Hopefully we can win," he says.
Two students who prove to be among the best in the country in a field as competitive as Cybersecurity and who, with their mere presence in the selection, have already raised the name of the URJC very high.
In the photo, in the middle row and second from the left: Inés Martín. Bottom row and first from the left: Diego Palacios