Chilton CAP Completes Round Two in National Cyber Patriot Competition

-CLANTON AL- Civil Air Patrol cadets of Chilton County Composite Squadron participated in a second round of the 2011 National Cyber Patriot Competition Saturday, Dec 3. They are waiting an announcement of the teams that will go on to the next and final elimination round. Last year they did very well in rounds one and two, but fell short in round three and did not advance to the final round.

In each competition, students are provided one to three virtual machines. These machines contain several vulnerabilities that the students must detect and clean. These virtual machines can have Windows or GNU/Linux Operating systems. The team is timed to complete the test on competition day. Teams that find the most vulnerabilities pass on to the next round, and the winners of all three rounds compete in the National Championships in Washington, D.C.

Chilton Composite Squadron of Civil Air Patrol meets at the Clanton Fairgrounds building every Tuesday at 6 PM. Contact Major Gary Ernest for more information at 205- 280-1501

Civil Air Patrol: the official auxiliary of the U.S. Air Force, is a nonprofit organization with more than 61,000 members nationwide. CAP performs 90 percent of continental U.S. inland search and rescue missions as tasked by the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center and was credited with saving 113 lives in fiscal year 2010. Its volunteers also perform homeland security, disaster relief and counter‐drug missions at the request of federal, state and local agencies. The members play a leading role in aerospace education and serve as mentors to the nearly 26,000 young people currently participating in CAP cadet programs. CAP has been performing missions for America for 70 years. B Meyer, FMI: CAP