CyberPatriot

CyberPatriot

St. Mary’s Squadron has been participating in the Air Force Association’s CyberPatriot program since 2013. CyberPatriot is a youth-focused cyber education curriculum and competition. Each year, teams from all around the nation compete to see who can most effectively defend various computer operating systems against cyber attacks. In each round of competition, teams are given a set of virtual images that represent operating systems and are tasked with finding cybersecurity vulnerabilities within the images. They work towards hardening the system and resolving these vulnerabilities over the course of a competition period lasting several hours, in a marathon of digital knowhow. Each Spring, top teams are invited to the National CyberPatriot Finals to compete in a head-to-head competition that spans a weekend. You can learn more about CyberPatriot here.