On July 11-12, the "Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge", jointly organized by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the Atlantic Council, the Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy of the State Department of the United States of America (USA) and Tashkent Inha University, was held in the capital of Uzbekistan, Azernews reports.

Elkhan Seyidov, a member of the Non-Aligned Movement Youth Organization, participated in the international cyber competition.

The international competition, which was founded in Washington in 2012, aims to strengthen measures against cybercrime, which has become a reality in global cyberspace, to educate the next generation in the direction of information security, and to expand innovative technologies against existing cyber threats.

To date, the competition which had been conducted in 11 different parts of the world was held for the first time in Central Asia and the South Caucasus region. Talented student teams representing educational institutions of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan took part in the competition.

Young participants gained valuable experience in the technical and strategic aspects of cyber security by playing the roles of cyber security consultants in a simulation game of potential cyber-attack scenarios, as well as networking with top industry experts. At the end of the simulation game, the teams discussed innovative solutions to the cyber attack presented.