Don”™t be alarmed: Mercy College, which has campuses in Dobbs Ferry, Yorktown Heights, Manhattan and the Bronx didn”™t encourage students to become computer hackers in the underworld. What happened is the exact opposite.
The college encouraged a team of students with computer expertise to validate their cybersecurity knowledge and skills through participation in hacking simulations run by the National Cyber League. More than just a competition of computer skills, the NCL Games can be integrated into the classroom, so faculty members can coach and mentor their students.
In a crowded field of 184 teams participating in the NCL Games in the fourth quarter of 2017, the Mercy cyberteam finished 30th in the nation overall and fourth in a specialized category.
The National Cyber League is a nonprofit designed to provide training in cybersecurity and give students the opportunity to solve the kinds of computer security problems they”™ll face in the business world.
