Radford University’s Cyber Defense Club is ranked No. 37 out of 521 colleges and universities in the latest National Cyber League (NCL) power rankings. The ranking is based on the Radford club’s excellent performance at the NCL’s fall 2023 contest.
Radford senior Jimmy Ririe placed in the top 98% in the NCL individual competition. He ranked 228 out of 7,879 students and placed in the 100th percentile in the password cracking, enumeration and exploitation and web application exploitation categories.
While Ririe is excited about his individual performance, the cybersecurity and computer science and technology double major from Blacksburg, Virginia, is thrilled by his team’s achievements.
“We took 10th place overall in the password cracking category, and we’re developing tools that we believe will take us to first place this spring,” Ririe said. “Half the team were freshmen and sophomores, and if they’re performing this well now, I can’t wait to see what they do in a couple years.”
Filling out the Cyber Defense Club roster are Sam Williams, Mark Crosby, Owen Starr, Michael Plafcan, Adam Downs, Yohannes “John” Kidanu, Eliot Cole, Caleb Lang and Tanner Ketron. Professor and Director of the School of Computing and Information Science Prem Uppuluri coaches the team.
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