Interview with NetWars Winner (US Cyber Challenge Competition)

US Companies and government agencies face a critical shortage of cybersecurity experts with sufficient technical skills to protect their systems, and military organizations have a similar shortage of people who can fight and win in cyberwar. An initiative by US government of having some Cyber Challenge competitions to discover these talented people. One of the competition was NetWars by SANS institute. Below is the video of an interview with the winner (Alan Paller) of NetWars at Gov 2.0 Summit 09.

Hope this video can motivate talented kids who is interested in IT Security.

Thanks to w01f for referring this video to us. w01f is a Security Professional involved in Ethical hacking, Penetration testing, Malware analysis. You can visit his blog here.

Vivek Ramachandran is a security evangelist and has been working in computer security related fields for the past 7 years. In 2007, Vivek spoke at world renowned conferences Defcon (WEP Cloaking Exposed) and Toorcon (The Caffe Latte Attack). The discovery of the Caffe Latte Attack was covered by CBS5 news, BBC online, Network World etc news agencies.In 2006, Vivek was announced as one of winners of the Microsoft Security Shootout contest held in India among 65,000 participants. He has also been a recipient of a Team Achievement at Cisco Systems for his work on 802.1x and Port Security modules on the Catalyst 6500 switches. Currently he spends all of his time maintaining Security- Freak.Net , SecurityTube.Net and is the co-founder of Axonize. Vivek, is a Bachelor in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati.You can contact him at vivek[at]securitytube.net