Time: 22nd September, 2017  

Author: Office of Party and Government Affairs in College of Arts/ College of Information Sciences and Technology/College of Cyberspace Security 

Photographer: Wang Ya-jing 

JNU's XpOint Team and Mirror Team won first and second prizes in the higher education category of the second Guangdong Better Net Cup cyber security competition at JNU's Run Run Shaw Stadium on Sept. 23.  

(80 teams in the competition)

The competition was part of the fourth Guangdong cyber security publicity week, jointly organized by the Provincial Government's Cyberspace Administration, and the Guangdong Department of Education, Science and Technology Department, Public Security Department, Security Department and Communications Administration. It was undertaken by JNU's College of Cyberspace Security, the Guangdong Province Information Security Evaluation Center and Guangdong sub-center contractors of the National Computer Network Emergency Technology Coordination Center. It is the largest and the most effective high-level technical cyberspace security competition in China.

Since the kickoff on Aug.11, 206 teams from Guangdong had entered the competition, representing government units, key information infrastructure operators, network security enterprises, and colleges and universities. The topics included web penetration, binary vulnerability mining utilization, password analysis, forensic analysis, reverse analysis, security programming and other professional network techniques, with the topics determined by vocations.

The competition was hosted by JNU's College of Cyberspace Security, the first cyberspace security institute in Guangdong when it was established in July 2015. The college had successfully hosted the Better Net Cup competition again. The college also won the competition this year.

(Vice president Zhang Ronghua and deputy director Zeng Shengquan awarding prizes)