ISTP participation at the Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge New York

The Cyber 9/12 Challenge is a competition designed to provide students across academic disciplines with a deeper understanding of the policy challenges associated with cyber crisis and conflict. The competition gives students a unique opportunity to interact with expert mentors and high-level cyber professionals. At the same time, they can develop valuable skills in policy analysis and presentation. The participants have to tackle various challenges, like assessing the impact of a major cyber attack or thinking through attribution and national responsibility. A panel of cyber security experts evaluates the performance. During this year's challenge, the students analysed and proposed responses to a global cyber incident affecting the space sector. They had to offer strategic policy recommendations to governments and representatives from the private sector.

This overlapping of technology and policy is exactly the ISTP's field of activity. Therefore, having two STP students on the Quadivirium team is not surprising. One of the ISTP representatives, Michael Andres, stated: 'The Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge in New York offered a very unique experience. It was fascinating to untangle all the US agencies and their overlapping competencies together with an incredible team of super nice people from Cyber Group. I would definitely love to compete again.'

The ETH team Quadrivium was trained by Cyber Group, a student organisation that aims to foster cyber-enthusiasm at ETH and supports teams logistically and with know-how. Quadrivium is composed of four students from different research fields. Marina Ivanovic and Michael Andres do their Master's at the ISTP, Johannes Eberle, a Physics student, and Yassmine Abdrabo, who is doing a Master in Computer Science. The team was coached by Philippe Panhaleux.