ICTC, Air Force Association partnership will help Canadian youth learn cyber security skills

OTTAWA - The Information and Communications Technology Council (ICTC) is partnering with the Air Force Association’s (AFA) CyberPatriot program to bring cyber security competitions to schools across Canada.Taking on the name CyberTitan, the partnership between AFA and ICTC will join the United Kingdom’s CyberCenturion in what is becoming a family of CyberPatriot-hosted cyber defense competitions. The competition puts teams of high school and middle school students in the position of newly hired IT professionals tasked with managing the network of a small company. In the rounds of competition, teams are given a set of virtual images that represent operating systems...