Alanba Newspaper Announcing KCST Participation in CPTC

KCST students represented Kuwait by participating in the Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition (CPTC) held in Rochester Institute of Technology.

RIT University in Dubai, silicon oasis, Dubai was the hub that holds the competition of the ME region.

The aim is to prepare our students for their future jobs in cybersecurity domain, by providing them with hands-on experience in a real-world scenario. As it is not an easy task to provide our students with such an environment, CPTC offered this opportunity as it uniquely allows participants to practice technical and non-technical skills, they have learnt in an environment that resembles a real-world scenario.

CPTC was established in 2014, involving only local universities in NY, USA. In 2016, CPTC has become a USA national competition with universities from all over the USA clustered in three regions. In 2019, CPTC became international as it included, in addition to the new fourth region of the USA, the UAE as a fifth region. Starting with year 2020, all universities in the middle can participate as part of Middle East (ME) region. Moreover, two additional regions, Canada, and Europe, have been added.

The competition is held in two phases regional and global. For 2021, the regional competition was held on 23rd, October 2021 while the global one was 6th-9th of January 2021.

• Team Coach:Mr. Tareq Al Zayyat
• Team Captain:Abdulrahman Alotaibi
• Team Members:
  • Abdulrahman Serhan
  • Nourah Alshammari
  • Haya Alshammari
  • Ahmad Alshabani
  • Dania Abdelsamie
  • Lulwah Alkandari
  • Sundes Alawadh
• Supervised by:
  • Dr. Basil Al Othman
  • Mr. Tareq Al Zayyat
  • Ms. Hanan Al Sharjah
  • Ms. Shahad Al Shaher

Aljarida Newspaper Announcing KCST Participation in CPTC

KCST students represented Kuwait by participating in the Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition (CPTC) held in Rochester Institute of Technology.

RIT University in Dubai, silicon oasis, Dubai was the hub that holds the competition of the ME region.

The aim is to prepare our students for their future jobs in cybersecurity domain, by providing them with hands-on experience in a real-world scenario. As it is not an easy task to provide our students with such an environment, CPTC offered this opportunity as it uniquely allows participants to practice technical and non-technical skills, they have learnt in an environment that resembles a real-world scenario.

CPTC was established in 2014, involving only local universities in NY, USA. In 2016, CPTC has become a USA national competition with universities from all over the USA clustered in three regions. In 2019, CPTC became international as it included, in addition to the new fourth region of the USA, the UAE as a fifth region. Starting with year 2020, all universities in the middle can participate as part of Middle East (ME) region. Moreover, two additional regions, Canada, and Europe, have been added.

The competition is held in two phases regional and global. For 2021, the regional competition was held on 23rd, October 2021 while the global one was 6th-9th of January 2021.

• Team Coach:Mr. Tareq Al Zayyat
• Team Captain:Abdulrahman Alotaibi
• Team Members:
  • Abdulrahman Serhan
  • Nourah Alshammari
  • Haya Alshammari
  • Ahmad Alshabani
  • Dania Abdelsamie
  • Lulwah Alkandari
  • Sundes Alawadh
• Supervised by:
  • Dr. Basil Al Othman
  • Mr. Tareq Al Zayyat
  • Ms. Hanan Al Sharjah
  • Ms. Shahad Al Shaher

2nd Annual Cyber Security Week

introducing Kuwait’s first Cyber Security Centre, The college announced the establishment of the first cyber security center that provides education, research, training among various levels ranging from intermediate to advanced training which aids in enhancing the security of digital infrastructure in all sectors and raising cyber security awareness through the Hackers Club. Furthermore, the ceremony highlighted the initiative to establish the first cyber security major among the current colleges and universities.

Cyber Accelerator Program

The Accelerator supports the growth of start-up cyber companies who aim to bring new ‘better, faster and cheaper’ security products to market. It aims to support the emerging cyber security industry within the Kuwait, encouraging skills, jobs and growth. Cyber Accelerator Program Was held twice, round one in 2020 and round 2 was announced on the 19th of December 2021 and taking place from 24th January to 17th March.

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