"A team of MBA students from the Singapore Management University (SMU) has clinched third prize in the NC State Grand Business Challenge held from 3-5 November 2016 at North Carolina (NC) State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. The case competition was focused on IT Security and sponsored by global healthcare company Merck.
SMU Team InnoVantage MBA postgraduate students Aravind Gopinath, Issac Tan, Lin Kuoyi, and Rohit Dewan (Team Leader) walked away with a prize of US$4000, after three days of rigorous competition. The SMU team entered the finals on 5 November to emerge third behind the teams from Rutgers Business School and Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.
Their winning proposal was to focus on the weakest link “people” among the three pillars of organisation – people, process and technology. The team targeted on “people” to plan a cyber-attack and then later identified various methods to defend against the attacks."
