A team of Charles Sturt University (CSU) Bachelor of Information Technology students is taking up the challenge to prevent cyber crime. On Tuesday 7 May the students from the School of Computing and Mathematics  at CSU in Wagga Wagga will take part in the Cyber Security Challenge Australia, a national competition run by the Australian Government and Telstra to boost skills and highlight careers in information and communications technology. In the 24-hour challenge students will have to identify vulnerabilities in a fictitious computer network and recommend strategies to fix the problems. This is the second year CSU has participated and Senior Lecturer Dr Tanveer Zia said the team is well prepared. “One of the team members took part last year so we have the advantage of having someone with good understanding of what is expected,” he said.  “The competition gives students the opportunity to integrate their learning into practice and experience a real life scenario.”