Cybersecurity is more than safeguarding servers, switches, and chips; it’s protecting identities and securing the cyber footprint of American citizens, government, schools, and businesses. Adversaries are more sophisticated. Cyber threats are never-ending.
NSA proactively collaborates with partners in government, private industry, and academia to guard the Nation against adversaries, and leverages the annual NSA Cybersecurity Exercise (NCX) to develop and showcase the next generation of cybersecurity leaders.
NCX is a year-round education, training and exercise program that culminates in a three-day cyber competition that challenges participating academy and military service college students in near full-spectrum cyber operations. This culminating cyberspace training exercise helps to develop and test cybersecurity skills, teamwork, planning, communication, critical thinking, and decision-making. NCX helps prepare the nation’s next generation of cyber leaders and warriors in defending the nation from an ever-increasing number of cyber threats. The winning school receives the coveted NCX trophy.