Who won the first cybersecurity Olympics in Italy

The first edition of the competition designed to enhance talents and skills in the field of IT security among the youngest has ended

(Photo: Getty Images) In the presence of the authorities and students of secondary schools who attended the event, the director of the Ministry of Education, Anna Brancaccio, awarded the winners of the first edition of the Italian Cybersecurity Olympics, a path of excellence for the training of future Italian ethical hackers. During the ceremony, which took place online, the results of the national competition on 12 June were presented, the culmination of a free 8-week course of study on IT security - carried out by the National Cybersecurity Laboratory and offered to all students of Italian high schools and technical institutes.

The 40 boys and girls who scored the highest score out of a total of 1107 participants, established on the basis of a series of competitions called Capture- virtually rose to the Olympic podium. the-flag (from the English for flag-stealing), in which the athletes compete in a virtual arena, defending their own infrastructures while attacking the opposing ones.

Antonio Napolitano (1.647) distinguished himself in the gold medal table. points), Eyad Lorenzo Issa (1,647 points), Luca Palumbo (2,056 points), Tito Sacchi (2,089 points) and, on the top step, Carlo Collodel of the Istituto Superiore A ntonio Scarpa from Motta di Livenza, with 2,131 points.

The silver medals were divided among the 15 subsequent athletes by score, ending with the remaining 20, who earned bronze. The ceremony was also attended by the Deputy Director General of the Information Security Department, Roberto Baldoni, who expressed support and closeness to the training activities of the National Cybersecurity Laboratory, which for years has been promoting the approach of young girls and boys to the world of IT security, increasingly strategic both from an industrial and from a political and diplomatic point of view.

Organized by the National Cybersecurity Laboratory of Cini (National Interuniversity Consortium for IT), Olicyber was also possible thanks to to the support of its sponsors, Autostrade per l'Italia as platinum and Tiesse as gold. The entire event involved 185 secondary schools (of which almost a third are high schools) and attracted the participation of 1107 aspiring experts in cybersecurity. The most represented classes were the 4th, with 457 members, and the 3rd, with 371 members. Followed by the 5th with 166 members and the 1st and 2nd with, respectively, 61 and 49 members.

The preparatory training course for local and national competitions was divided into 48 hours of activities, carried out over a period of 8 weeks. The students, coming from 70 different provinces, underwent 130 exercises, which involved cryptography, reverse engineering, network security and infrastructure security, covering the most relevant areas in the complex cybersecurity sector. While the organization of the courses was possible thanks to the choral involvement of 40 young instructors selected from the participants in CyberChallenge.IT, the only Italian path in Europe to strengthen training in cybersecurity, and among the athletes of TeamItaly: the Italian national hacker team. ethical.

All Olicyber participants will also be able to benefit from a path of evaluation of soft skills and aptitude peculiarities, through a series of evaluations based on play. On the other hand, only the first 40 who emerged from the competitions will be offered a personal and individual course of advanced training on the improvement of the Inner Game, which allows them to strengthen concentration even in situations of particular stress.

"We tried to draw the better from the difficulties of the pandemic, which suddenly required us all greater prudence and more time at home ", commented Paolo Prinetto, director of the National Cybersecurity Laboratory:" So we decided to create a new path - Olicyber - that would expand the enormous offers already made with CyberChallenge.IT. This should have been a 'pilot edition', yet from the enthusiasm and results found, it seems to already have a well-run machine ".


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