{"id":237426,"date":"2026-04-30T09:16:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T13:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/wsu-student-team-takes-first-at-national-cyber-competition-wsu-insider\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T09:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T13:45:11","slug":"wsu-student-team-takes-first-at-national-cyber-competition-wsu-insider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/wsu-student-team-takes-first-at-national-cyber-competition-wsu-insider\/","title":{"rendered":"WSU student team takes first at national cyber competition | WSU Insider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.wsu.edu\/news\/2026\/04\/30\/wsu-student-team-takes-first-at-national-cyber-competition\/\">WSU student team takes first at national cyber competition | WSU Insider<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.wsu.edu\/news\/2026\/04\/30\/wsu-student-team-takes-first-at-national-cyber-competition\/\">https:\/\/news.wsu.edu\/news\/2026\/04\/30\/wsu-student-team-takes-first-at-national-cyber-competition\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-30 09:16:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"news.wsu.edu\">news.wsu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of Washington State University computer science students recently earned first\u00a0place in the 2026\u00a0VICEROY National Cyber Competition called The Guardian Prevails.<\/p>\n<p>The event was held during the annual VICEROY Symposium at the College of William &#038; Mary on April\u00a014.<\/p>\n<p>Drawing students from across the U.S., the competition requires students to solve realistic cybersecurity challenges. VICEROY, which stands for Virtual Institutes for Cyber and Electromagnetic Spectrum Research and Employ, is a Department of Defense-funded initiative designed to train students in cyber-spectrum skills, operations, and research. The competitions aim to help develop a skilled cybersecurity workforce for national defense, according to the initiative\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p>WSU team members who won the competition included Sean Hodgson, Adam Caudle, Cole Wilson, Justin Van\u00a0Der\u00a0Sluys, and Andy Sorge, undergraduates in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was an incredible opportunity to put our flexibility, ingenuity, and systems understanding to the test in high-stakes, realistic simulated environments,\u201d said senior Adam Caudle. \u201cIt\u2019s a testament to what can be achieved when a team brings their <span class=\"inline\">A-game<\/span>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This was an incredible opportunity to put our flexibility, ingenuity, and systems understanding to the test in high-stakes, realistic simulated environments.<\/p>\n<p>Adam Caudle, student<br \/>Washington State University<\/p>\n<p>The students are part of WSU\u2019s CySER (Cybersecurity Education and Research) Institute, which came about as a result of an initial $1.5\u00a0million award from the VICEROY Initiative in 2021. The program established a thriving cyberoperations research and teaching center at WSU, where training is provided to ROTC and DOD-skilled civilian workers in computer science and other majors in cyber basics, operations, or defense, offering bachelor\u2019s degrees as well as specialized certificates. Participating students receive training&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.wsu.edu\/news\/2026\/04\/30\/wsu-student-team-takes-first-at-national-cyber-competition\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WSU student team takes first at national cyber competition | WSU Insider https:\/\/news.wsu.edu\/news\/2026\/04\/30\/wsu-student-team-takes-first-at-national-cyber-competition\/ Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":237427,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/news\/uploads\/sites\/2797\/2026\/04\/VICEROYchamps.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237426"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237428,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237426\/revisions\/237428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}