More mail from Miss Mary at Northrop Grumman
Greetings! This a reference list of known Cybersecurity competitions for students. Please spread the word to students who might be interested in participating.
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CyberPatriot by the Air Force Association (AFA) –
Website:
http://www.afa.org/CyberPatriotII.asp
Ages: High School
Challenges:
http://www.saic.com/cybernexs/#media-downloads
Dates: Open thru winter
Format: Teams
Target: Network defense
Sponsored by Northrop Grumman. CyberPatriot is a High School Cyber Defense Competition conducted by the Air Force Association. It is a competition in computer system & network defense ‐ where the competitors attempt to analyze the security state of the competition network and then must secure the systems while maintaining services and responding to attacks by a hostile Red Team. This is a preparatory program that encourages students to continue their security training in college and to compete in the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition. One of four CSIS / USCC Challenges.
CyberPatriot is a national high school cyber defense competition created to inspire high school students toward careers in cybersecurity or other science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines critical to our nation’s future. Three qualification rounds are designed to test each team’s ability to find and remediate vulnerabilities that are pre-configured into one or more VMware images (called Target Images). The SAIC CyberNEXS competition environment will be used for these competitions. The teams are assessed points by the CyberNEXS scoring system. Each team will start with a set of identically configured Targets.
The final competition of the 2010-2011 season will take place at AFA’s CyberFutures Conference at the Gaylord National Hotel and Convention Center, National Harbor, Md. April 1-2, 2011.
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NETWARS – SANS Network Attack competition
Website:
http://www.sans.org/netwars/
Ages: High School through post-graduate
Dates: Open registration
Format: Teams or Individuals
Target: Network and software vulnerabilities
The Network Attack Competition conducted by the SANS Institute: a competition in network vulnerability discovery and exploitation. This program will include substantial ethical and legal instruction. An essential tenet of the emerging US national strategy for cyber security is that offense must inform defense. Perhaps the single most important reason that America’s computers are so easily exploited is that the government and the companies in the critical infrastructure relied for security guidance on individuals who were not intimately familiar with how cyber attacks work. One of four CSIS / USCC Challenges.
NetWars - ng Competitions take place live at every National SANS Event.
· NetWars - ng at Cyber Defense Initiative (CDI) 2010: December 13th & 14th 2010
· NetWars - ng at SANS 2011: March 31st & April 1st 2011
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DC3 Forensics Challenge - Digital Forensics Security Treasure Hunt
Website:
http://www.dc3.mil/challenge/
Ages: High School through post-graduate
Challenges:
http://digitalforensics.securitytreasurehunt.com/
Dates: Open registration
Format: Teams or Individuals
Target: Digital forensics
The DC3 Challenge encourages innovation from a broad range of individuals, teams, and institutions to provide technical solutions for computer forensic examiners in the lab as well as in the field. Approximately 25 different challenges ranging from basic forensics to advanced tool development are provided to all participants. Each challenge is designed to be unique and separate from another. The DC3 Digital Forensics Challenges are conducted by the DoD Cyber Crime Center (DC3). They are a competition in digital forensics where, in increasingly challenging scenarios, contestants attempt to uncover evidence on digital media, just like you see on all of the crime scene investigative shows on TV. Whether it is an intrusion by a nation state, or a child pornography investigation, digital forensics is the key to answering the who, what, where, when, why, and how questions. One of four CSIS / USCC Challenges.
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SANS Security Treasure Hunt & Web Vulnerability Assessment Security Treasure Hunt
Challenges:
http://www.securitytreasurehunt.com/ &
http://webvulnassessment.securitytreasurehunt.com/
Ages: **ALL**
Dates: Open registration
Format: Individuals only
Target: Network and software vulnerabilities
Designed to help identify people with information security interest and skills. Participants will be challenged to identify security flaws on a target system and answer questions based on those issues. Everyone is welcome to participate. If you live in one of three states currently hosting competitions, and are eligible, you will also compete for a free seat to cyber summer camp. One of four CSIS / USCC Challenges.
If you are interested in being a sponsor, please contact Karen S. Evans, Director, US Cyber Challenge at
kevans@uscyberchallenge.org . If you would like to be a sponsor of the 2010 Summer Camps, please contact
sponsorship@uscyberchallenge.org.
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US Cyber Challenge Cyber Camps –
Website:
http://webvulnassessment.securitytreasurehunt.com/
Ages: 18 and over
Dates: Invitational only
Target: Network and software vulnerabilities
For the 2010 Summer Camps, please visit the Security Treasure Hunt Site. For this year, the competitors must be 18 years or older and reside in the participating state or be attending school in the state. Specific criteria are posted on the respective states' Web sites: In 2010, three camps were held in New York, California and Delaware (
http://www.dti.delaware.gov/informat...hallenge.shtml ). Camps held in New York and California will be overnight camps beginning on a Monday and ending on a Friday. The Delaware Camp will be held during the days only, Monday through Friday.
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Summary on the above programs, issued by the White House:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/files/docu...%205-8-09).pdf
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National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (CCDC) –
Website:
http://www.nationalccdc.org/
Ages: Collegiate
Format: Teams
Target: Network and software vulnerabilities
What the students face: You have just been hired as the network and security administrators at a small company and will be taking administrative control of all information systems. You know very little about the network, what security level has been maintained, or what software has been installed. You have a limited time frame to familiarize yourself with the network and systems and to begin the security updates and patches before the red team starts actively attacking your company. In the midst of all the commotion, you have to keep up with the needs of the business and user demands while maintaining service level agreements for all critical Internet services. Welcome to the first day of the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (CCDC).
Mid-Atlantic / Maryland Regional Coordinator for CCDC participation: Dr. Casey O'Brien at CCBC; phone: Email:
cobrien@ccbcmd.edu
National Competition, April 16-18th, University of Texas at San Antonio, TX -
CCDC is a three day event and the first competition that specifically focuses on the operational aspect of managing and protecting an existing “commercial” network infrastructure. Not only do tudents get a chance to test their knowledge in an operational environment, they will also get a chance to network with industry professionals who are always on the lookout for up and coming engineers