'White hat hackers' compete
The two schools will be among 12 high schools from across Iowa who will compete Friday and Saturday in the Iowa High School Cyber Defense Competition at Iowa State University in Ames. In the contest, the teams will spend 15 hours running a computer security network for a fictional dot-com company and ensuring no unauthorized users, from ISU computer science students and a "supercomputer" designed to look for holes in the protection, enter the system, said Dominic Audia, City High's Cisco Network Academy instructor and a West High biology teacher who is overseeing the Iowa City high school teams.
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