Ben Jackson, an 18-year-old student from the Sussex town of Bexhill-on-sea, has won the Cyber Security Challenge UK’s Masterclass competition, making him the youngest ever champion.
Jackson beat 41 other talented amateurs in a three-day cyber-attack simulation led by PwC with help from the National Crime Agency, GCHQ and the Bank of England.
That challenge, which took part in a Security Operations Center in Shoreditch, required participants to investigate a data breach at a power station.
Working in teams, candidates were presented with the profiles of ‘employees’ which may have carried out the attack, and were required to work against the clock under the twin pressures of hacktivist cyber-attacks and live updates from government agencies and the company’s board.
They were also tasked with keeping the operation under wraps from journalists. For the full article click here
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