MCAST HackSpace in collaboration with MITA held a 1-day ECSC boot camp training session at the College’s Student House Building. A total of 17 participants attended the training session.

All participants followed training aimed at equipping them with the knowledge needed to compete in the National Competition, which commences on Saturday 18th June and finishes on Saturday 9th July.

Experts from Cyber Security Malta, provided the students with four workshops namely, training on reverse engineering, privilege escalation, memory forensics and web exploitation.

This training was part of a longer initiative which will see a group of shortlisted individuals receive online and onsite specialised training by local and international security professionals. A final group of ten participants will be selected by MITA to represent Malta at the European Cybersecurity Challenge, to be held Vienna, this September.

You can read more about this international competition via this link.