Baker College of Flint, Michigan has taken top honors at the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition hosted by the University of Texas at San Antonio. The annual competition featured six, eight member teams, that were asked to operate and maintain a business network that comes under hostile cyber attack.

Other winners at the third annual competition included Texas A&M University and the University of Louisville. The top prize for the winning teams included an invitation by the Department of Homeland Security to attend the March 2010 Cyber Storm III National Cyber Security Exercise in Washington, D.C.

The win was the first by a team from Baker. The school had competed previously in the collegiate cyber defense competition but had never made it past the regional level.

Each of the competing teams were required to perform typical business tasks as well as correct problems on their network. At the same time, competitors were faced with a network attack that generated live, hostile activity throughout the competition.