Georgian Students Win International Olympiad in Cyber Security

At the International Cyber Security Olympiad, students of the Scientific Cyber Security Association’s (SCSA) Sunday school have won first place.

The Georgian national team’s members Reziko Chaladze, Giorgi Chargeishvili, and Giorgi Papava created work in social engineering and won the Sixth International Students Olympiad: “Ways and Mechanisms of Ukraine’s information space protection from harmful information and psychological influences“.

The event was organized by the Odessa National Academy of Communications. Twelve teams from Ukraine, Georgia, Kazakhstan, and Poland have taken part in the Online Olympiad. “They created a very sophisticated 20-page work in social engineering. The work comprises a theoretical part of cyberattacks on various types of users.

They have also conducted research and analyzed what sort of attacks was popular in the world and Georgia and finally, identified several types of statistics. For instance, the majority of cyber attacks in Georgia over the past few years were carried out by the use of social engineering technologies and then the process was transformed into other stages. They also determined rules that users should employ for cybersecurity”, SCSA technical director Giorgi Iashvili noted. Our students aged 15-17 have elaborated mechanisms and determined two aspects: reasons why these attacks are carried out and how these attacks can be prevented, Iashvili noted. The mentioned school is one of the projects of the Scientific Cyber Security Association.