[1][2] Founded in 2003 as a university-wide research center, it involves more than 50 faculty and 100 graduate students from different departments and schools within the university.
[6][7][8][9][10] picoCTF is a cybersecurity capture the flag competition hosted by CyLab.
Established in 2013, the event is run annually over a period of two weeks and is geared towards high schoolers, billing itself as the largest high school cybersecurity event in the United States; the inaugural edition had 6,000 participants and 39,000 people competed in 2019.
[11] The challenges, which are modeled around real-life cybersecurity problems, are themed around a different storyline each year.
[12] The program aims to get high schoolers interested in computer security, offering cash prizes.