CDT team win Cyber 9/12 competition.
In February 2018, a team from the CDT took part in the first Cyber 9/12 competition based in the UK, competing over three rounds and eventually winning the competition. The multi-disciplinary team, with backgrounds in small-medium business and IT management, cryptography, Philosophy, Politics, Economics (PPE) and Psychology was made up of Amy Ertan, Angela Heeler, Georgia Crossland and Lydia Garms. For the first round, several weeks before the event, the team were provided with an intelligence pack consisting of a collection of sources on a potential threat to the UK, involving a vulnerability to UK airports, manipulation of aviation financial markets, a new internet of things botnet, and a social media botnet. The team were tasked with preparing a 500-word brief summarising the scenario and a decision document to outline three potential policies in responses to this situation including a preferred option. On the first day, the team gave a ten-minute presentation on their pol...