Cybersecurity Olympiad, four Italian students awarded prizes

Two gold and two silver medals for the four Italian students on the podium of the International Cybersecurity Olympiad. This concludes the two-day event in Singapore that, from 22 June, hosted the first edition of the competition that saw the participation of around 150 talents from 30 countries around the world.

On the podium, therefore, was the team captained by Gaspare Ferraro and Matteo Rossi of the Cybersecurity National Lab of Cini, the National Interuniversity Consortium for Informatics, composed as follows: gold medal to Leonardo Mattei of the 'Antonio Labriola' Scientific High School in Rome and to Jacopo Di Pumpo of the I. T. S. O. S. 'Marie Curie' High School in Cernusco sul Naviglio.T.S.O.S "Marie Curie" in Cernusco sul Naviglio; silver medal to Alan Davide Bovo of the "Pascal Comandini" High School in Cesena and to Stefano Perrucci of the "Enrico Fermi" Technical Institute in Francavilla Fontana (Brindisi).

Thanks to its team, Italy was also the best scoring country and will host the 2027 edition of the International Cybersecurity Olympics.

"We are very proud of the excellent result achieved by our entire team in this first edition of the International Cybersecurity Olympiad in Singapore, which is also a result of the commitment we have been pursuing since 2021 with the organisation of the Italian Cybersecurity Olympiad," comments Gaspare Ferraro, National Coordinator of the Italian Cybersecurity Olympiad. "We hope that this result can serve as an example for students in Italian schools to embark on a path in this field," continues Matteo Rossi, newly elected member of the Scientific Committee at the International Cybersecurity Olympiad.

The event - hosted by the National University of Singapore, considered among the top 10 universities worldwide - saw participants compete in two days of individual CTF (Capture-The-Flag) competition on topics such as web security, reverse engineering, binary exploitation, digital forensics and cryptography.