UK pledge is tip municipal in general cyber challenge

A 26-year-old Essex program developer has finished as a highest-ranked municipal and second
overall in a 2012 DC3 Digital Forensics
Challenge.

Chris Doman, kick some-more than 1200 cyber teams from 53 countries in a challenge, that forms one
of a competitions run by Cyber Security
Challenge UK.

He receives 7Safe training courses and a chance
to contest for £100,000s value of career-enabling prizes as partial of a Cyber Security Challenge
UK.

The 2012 DC3 Digital Forensics Challenge is designed and hosted by a US Department of Defense
Cyber Crime Centre (DC3).

Doman was second usually to a group of professionals from a US tellurian aerospace and defence
technology company, Northrop Grumman.

The UK contributed some-more participants than roughly any other country, and was good represented at
the tip of a personality board, with dual other UK amateurs, Matt Bartlett and Chris Moore, in a top
12.

The Cyber Security Challenge UK began in 2010 as a array of inhabitant competitions to find
talented people to accommodate a augmenting direct for skills in cyber security.

Now in a third year, a Challenge has broadened a range to act as a source of support and
guidance for anyone meddlesome in a profession.

The DC3 Digital Forensics Challenge is one of a subordinate competitions for a Cyber Security
Challenge UK’s face-to-face competitions.

The DC3 plea is deliberate one of a toughest debate competitions in a world,
and takes a form of several particular scenario-based exercises.

Chris Doman is a mechanism scholarship graduate, a former web developer, and a co-founder of Ignite
Research, a start-up he set adult in 2009 with a propagandize crony to tackle several projects regulating their
software expertise.

“Security has always been an interest. At propagandize we would tell mechanism confidence and operating
system pattern tutorials. However environment adult my possess association left me with reduction time to pursue this
interest.

“The Cyber Security Challenge has positively reignited my adore for cyber confidence and problem
solving. we did improved than we expected, and it’s given me a boost to start requesting for work in this
field,” pronounced Doman.

Later this month, Doman will take partial in a subsequent UK Challenge face-to-face play off, the
Sophos Malware Hunt.

The foe will see 30 amateurs from several practical initial theatre Challenge competitions
take on a purpose of forensics and counterclaim specialists operative for a UK Government.

They will contest for serve prizes, and a possibility to be crowned a UK Cyber Security
Champion during a Masterclass finale in March.

Doman will be assimilated during a Malware Hunt by his associate tip ranked UK possibilities from a DC3
competition, IT veteran Matt Bartlett, who finished ninth altogether and Chris Moore a fourth
year tyro during Durham University who finished 12th, a top ranked undergraduate in the
world.

Stephanie Daman, CEO, Cyber Security Challenge UK pronounced Doman’s success and a opening of UK
competitors is a absolute proof of a turn of pledge talent in a UK.

“Unfortunately for a contention like cyber confidence where employers are unfortunate to find new
talent, Chris’ story of an early seductiveness in a theme that wasn’t followed in after life, is
worryingly familiar.

“Without a opportunities supposing by a competitions like a DC3 Digital Forensics and the
Cyber Security Challenge UK, Chris and many others like him will be mislaid to a profession
completely notwithstanding their undoubted ability,” she said.

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