The University of Virginia prevailed over nine other finalist teams to win the 2019 National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition and its coveted Alamo Cup. It is the UVA Cyber Defense Team'ssecond national titlein back-to-back years — despite last year being the first time UVA participated in the competition. The championship was held in Orlando, Fla., from April 23-25 with the national competition's top-10 college and university teams. UVA's team, all UVA Engineering students led for the second year by team captain Mariah Kenny, successfully protected the network of a fictional agriculture firm specializing in cryopreservation, crop research and development, and sustainable farming. The fictional company sustained multiple attacks orchestrated by ethical hackers using the same tactics and techniques as real-world bad actors. “It's absolutely incredible to be back-to-back winners,†Kenny said. “To win nationals in the first two years of competing shows that our team has something special.†Competing for the team in Orlando were Calvin Krist, Daniel Chen, Mariah Kenny, Roman Bohuk, Jack McDowell and Jake Smith, all computer science undergraduates; computer science Ph.D. student Jack Verrier; and Conner Steenrod, a mechanical engineering major. Will Mayes, Caroline Linkous and Sam Spelsberg, also computer science majors, were alternates for the national competition. Yonghwi Kwon, John Knight Career Enhancement Assistant Professor of Computer Science, advised this year's team.