Cyber 9/12 Student Challenge - 20-21 April 2017. Geneva, Switzerland
The Cyber 9/12 Challenge is a scenario-driven policy competition for teams of students, organised by the Atlantic Council and hosted at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy. Royal Holloway was represented by Team CDT Mavericks, comprising Ela Berners-Lee, Andreas Haggman, Rory Hopcraft and Pip Thornton. A week before the event we received a briefing pack containing intelligence reports and news stories about an unfolding threat of ransomware against medical devices. We were required to digest this information into a short, written summary and construct a Decision Document containing four proposed policy options to tackle the situation. On the first day of the competition we were put before a panel of six judges to present our policy alternatives, including our recommended option. The judges were given two minutes to read our Decision Document after which we had ten minutes to give an oral presentation, followed by ten minutes of rigorous questions and answers from the judges.