Edinburgh team compete in Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge competition

A team from Edinburgh Law School's 'Cybercrime and Cyber Security' Masters course competed in the flagship Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge international competition hosted by Johns Hopkins University, Washington D.C.

Arundhati Kale (Innovation, Technology and the Law LLM), Isabelle Jaber (Cyber Security, Privacy and Trust MSc, School of Informatics), Telma Seixas Fernandes (Law LLM) and Andrey Komarov (Global Crime, Justice and Security MSc) competed online as the 'Lothian Logic' team, coached by Dr Richard Jones (Senior Lecturer in Criminology).

Pitted against 41 other teams from the US and Europe, including from Duke University, University of Warwick, NYU, United States Airforce Academy, and United States Military Academy, the Edinburgh team reached the semi-finals after two intense days of competition.

The Challenge presented teams with a cybersecurity incident scenario with national and international implications, tasking them with crafting actionable cyber policy responses for government and industry stakeholders, and involving both written and verbal presentation.

Presenting their analyses to a panel of cyber security professionals, the team responded expertly to a complex and evolving cyber threat scenario, working cooperatively and against the clock to combine insights from their LLM and MSc programmes.