CICRA Warriors win Global Cyberlympics Defence Challenge

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Among top 10 teams from Asia to qualify for next round

CICRA Warriors – a team consisting alumni of CICRA Consultancies Ltd (CICRA) – has won the Defence Challenge of the Cyberlympics 2014 – an Olympic styled international competition amongst cyber security professionals. Global Cyberlympics Administration Team announced last week that CICRA Warriors has advanced to the next round of competition which will be the forensics challenge. The team is among top ten teams from Asia. The team members are Kushantha Gunawardana, Sajith Thennakoon, Suresh Rupasinghe, Vikum Thebuwana and Lasantha Thenuwara. All members of the team are Certified Ethical Hackers (C|EH) from the EC-Council, USA trained by CICRA, CICRA Director/CEO Boshan Dayaratne said.

Cyberlympics is an international cyber security competition with the objective of unifying Global Cyber Defense through the games organized by the EC-Council Foundation, USA. The Cyberlympics is endorsed by the International Multilateral Partnership Against Cyber Threats (IMPACT). IMPACT is the cyber security executing arm of the United Nations’ specialized agency, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). ITU Secretary-General Dr Hamadoun Touré is the patron of Global Cyberlympics, Mr. Dayaratne said. “Global Cyberlympics aspires to create an opportunity for ethical hacking to be accepted, practiced and demonstrated without any discrimination, across all geographical boundaries – for the purpose of understanding what it takes to protect and secure critical information and assets.” One key initiative for Global Cyberlympics is to foster an environment that creates child online protection through education, he said. CICRA is an accredited training center of the EC-Council. It delivers number of EC-Council training programs on cyber security in Sri Lanka, including Certified Ethical Hacker (C|EH), Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator (C|HFI), and Certified Security Analyst (E|CSA) leading to Licenced Penetration Tester (L|PT).