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For more than 30 years, Cabling Installation & Maintenance has provided useful, practical information to professionals responsible for the specification, design, installation and management of structured cabling systems serving enterprise, data center and other environments. These professionals are challenged to stay informed of constantly evolving standards, system-design and installation approaches, product and system capabilities, technologies, as well as applications that rely on high-performance structured cabling systems. Our editors synthesize these complex issues into multiple information products. This portfolio of information products provides concrete detail that improves the efficiency of day-to-day operations, and equips cabling professionals with the perspective that enables strategic planning for networks’ optimum long-term performance.

Throughout our annual magazine, weekly email newsletters and 24/7/365 website, Cabling Installation & Maintenance digs into the essential topics our audience focuses on.

  • Design, Installation and Testing: We explain the bottom-up design of cabling systems, from case histories of actual projects to solutions for specific problems or aspects of the design process. We also look at specific installations using a case-history approach to highlight challenging problems, solutions and unique features. Additionally, we examine evolving test-and-measurement technologies and techniques designed to address the standards-governed and practical-use performance requirements of cabling systems.
  • Technology: We evaluate product innovations and technology trends as they impact a particular product class through interviews with manufacturers, installers and users, as well as contributed articles from subject-matter experts.
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  • Physical Security: Focusing on the areas in which security and IT—and the infrastructure for both—interlock and overlap, we pay specific attention to Internet Protocol’s influence over the development of security applications.
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Champion Emerges in U.S. Department of Energy’s 2024 Cyberforce® Conquer the Hill®— Reign Edition

After hours of cool-headed puzzling and problem-solving, Hunter Wittenborn, a student from the University of Alabama at Huntsville, emerged as champion of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) 2024 CyberForce® Conquer the Hill® — Reign Edition Competition. Hosted by DOE’s Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER) and Argonne National Laboratory, Wittenborn competed with some of the brightest young minds studying cybersecurity to tackle a series of challenges in a video game style escape room.

The Reign Edition competition is part of DOE’s CyberForce® Program, which aims to develop the next generation of cyber defenders for the energy sector. Through hands-on individual and team competitions, the program highlights the nexus of critical infrastructure and cybersecurity.

In this year’s contest, 149 students from 77 universities and colleges entered a virtual escape room to help their character, DUDE, conquer five levels of varying technical skills and challenges in order to escape. Not every challenge provided immediate progression or support and students had to use cybersecurity, computer science, mathematics, and critical thinking skills to traverse to the next level. Wittenborn helped DUDE escape all five levels in the fastest time and was declared the Reign champion.

“I am excited to see another successful Conquer the Hill Reign competition and the ingenuity and hard work of this year’s competitors,” said Puesh M. Kumar, Director of CESER. “Competitions like Reign enhance skills and drive interest in joining the nation’s rising cyber energy workforce. Congratulations to the winner, Hunter Wittenborn from the University of Alabama at Huntsville!”

“Reign provides a unique and fun educational opportunity for students to absorb complex topics in a relatable way,” said Amanda Theel, national laboratory lead of the CyberForce Program and group leader of Workforce Development in Argonne’s Strategic Security Sciences division. “Ideally, these students can take what they learned in a competition and use that experience to build confidence within this field.”

The need for workers with sophisticated cyber skills is increasing. From January 2023 to January 2024, there were only 82 workers available for every 100 cybersecurity job openings in the U.S., according to 2023 CyberSeek data from the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

The CyberForce Program includes the team-based CyberForce Competition®, webinars, virtual career fairs, and an online workforce portal. Students develop skills, find job opportunities, and stay informed about upcoming events and training.

For more information about the CyberForce Program and upcoming events, please visit the CyberForce website.

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Christopher J. Kramer

Head of Media Relations

Argonne National Laboratory

Office: 630.252.5580

Email: media@anl.gov

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