Search Narrows for World’s Top Student Hackers and Cybersecurity Protectors: Countdown to NYU CSAW Finals

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After besting a record-breaking 3,500 teams from more than 100 countries, an elite corps of high school, college, and graduate students will advance to the finals of the world’s biggest student-led cybersecurity contest: the New York University Tandon School of Engineering’sannual CSAW games. …  The scale of CSAW, in this, its 15th year, is evident in its global reach: 397 finalists from around the world will travel to academic sites across four continents to compete in the final rounds November 8-11, 2018… More than bragging rights are at stake: NYU Tandon will offer more than $1 million in scholarships to all high school finalists in the CSAW Red Team Competition in Downtown Brooklyn. And the NYU Center for Cybersecurity will award full tuition and fellowships to first-place winners in three collegiate-level competitions at all of the hubs. (Scholarships are contingent upon admission to NYU Tandon and satisfactory academic progress.)