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Get out your brackets (again)!
Call it a techie version of the Final Four.
Two weeks after hosting the NCAA college basketball championship, San Antonio this weekend hosts another collegiate championship - the NCCDC or National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition.
Defending national champion Texas A&M University will try to retain its title as teams from across the country face off to decide who can play the best defense - computer network defense, that is - against opposing teams of would-be hackers.
In the tourney - the first round begins today - teams are responsible for running an operational computer network for a fictional business, complete with e-mail, Web sites, data files and users. They have to keep the network running as an opposing team tries to hack into the network and shut it down with computer bugs and other types of real-world computer maladies.
Along with the Aggies, other teams left standing from the field of 56 in this year’s April Madness include Mt. San Antonio College of Los Angeles (home of the Mounties, for those you playing along); the University of Louisville (that would be the Cardinals); Rochester Institute of Technology (Go Tigers!); Baker College of Flint, Mich. and the Community College of Baltimore County.
Apparently the Alamodome was booked this weekend. The cyber-tourney is being held at the Hilton San Antonio Airport Hotel.
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