Marco Squarcina’s Post

Top-10 finish for #TeamAustria at #ECSC2025! 🇦🇹🔥 After two intense days of Jeopardy and Attack/Defense challenges, our team secured 9th place overall, consolidating Austria's position among the top cybersecurity teams in Europe. As the coach, together with Manuel Reinsperger, I couldn't be prouder of this incredible group: Johannes Berndorfer Lukas Eschbacher Georg Felber Sebastian Felix Dominik Fluch Hannah Fluch Lea Holter Matthias Pleschinger Jannik S. Christoph Tantscher Thanks to Marcel Schnideritsch and Patrick Pirker for their precious support and the entire Austrian community for rooting from home. Last but not least, a big thank you to Joe Pichlmayr for being the backbone of our national program and believing in #ECSC more than anyone else. We are already planning for next year to keep improving and expanding the reach of our community in Austria. Stay tuned! A huge congratulations also goes to Team Italy 🇮🇹 for taking home the trophy this year! It's amazing to see some of the players who started with me back in 2018 (I was the Italian coach at the time) still competing and finally reaching the top. What a journey. So proud of you all ❤️ And of course, thank you Poland 🇵🇱 for hosting such a high-profile and well-organized competition. This event embodies the spirit of European collaboration that we all believe in. Let's keep building this community together! NASK CERT Polska Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) Technische Universität Wien TU Wien Informatics Cybersecurity Center TU Wien CyberChallengeIT CINI Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale per l'Informatica