TikTok announced on Monday that it is joining forces as founding sponsors of the US Cyber Games, as well as the US Cyber Team led by Katzcy in collaboration with the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) program at the US Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
TikTok joins forces with US Cyber Games
US Cyber Games aims to inspire the next generation to achieve high competencies when it comes to cybersecurity skills and destigmatise cybersecurity by making the field diverse. Earlier this year the fraternity welcomed 18 to 26-year-olds who were afforded to join the games for free.
Just like a physical sports combine, each cyber athlete completed an aptitude evaluation, interviewed with multiple coaches, trained weekly, and competed in advanced competitions to build their portfolio of achievements, TikTok wrotes in a blog post.
“Welcoming TikTok as a partner will help advance education and awareness of opportunities in cybersecurity around the world, including both technical and non-technical roles for young people to join efforts to build a safer, more secure digital world,” Lisa Plaggemier, Interim Executive Director at the National Cyber Security Alliance, said.
Are the Games available in other countries?
TikTok said it is also exploring ways to support cyber athletes and teams in other regions around the world as they prepare to compete in Greece.
The cyber athletes will be competing in an event known as “Draft Day”, which will take place on 5 October 2021. After that, at least nine nations will be competing in Athens, Greece in challenges gauging web application and system exploitation, cryptography, reverse engineering, hardware challenges, forensics, and escape rooms. The top 20 athletes of the US team will be taking on countries around the world in December 2021.
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“It’s encouraging to see the US Cyber Games and International Cybersecurity Challenge receive widespread support from cybersecurity leaders across the public and private sectors,” said Plaggemier.
“The first ICC event is expected to enhance national and regional efforts worldwide, and we look forward to welcoming all nine teams to one of the best cybersecurity competitions yet,” Dr. Demosthenes Ikonomou, Head of Capacity Building Unit at the European Union Agency for CyberSecurity (ENISA) said.
