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Fifth Annual Pacific Rim Regional Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition

March 24-25, 2012

Highline Community College
2400 S. 240th St
Des Moines, WA 98198

Welcome to the Pacific Rim Regional Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (CCDC). In this competition, student teams are presented with a pre-configured systems of a fictitious company that they are tasked to operate. The evil red team, which sits next door, however, will attempt to vandalize and break into this network. The student teams need to defend against the attacks of this red team. In particular, the goals for each team are to:

• fulfill assigned business tasks (so-called injects)
• keep services operational
• prevent break-ins by the red team

Students are scored based on the goals above. The team with the most points of the two day event will be the winner of the Pacific Rim Regional Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition and will proceed to the National competition.

Our objectives for this event are:

• Build a meaningful mechanism by which institutions of higher education may evaluate their programs.
• Provide an educational venue in which students are able to apply the theory and practical skills they have learned in their course work;
• Foster a spirit of teamwork, ethical behavior, and effective communication both within and across teams;
• Create interest and awareness among participating institutions and students.

Mission:

The Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (CCDC) provides institutions with an information assurance or computer security curriculum a controlled competitive environment to assess their student’s depth of understanding and operational competency in managing the challenges inherent in protecting an enterprise network infrastructure and business information systems.

For more information on attending, participating, sponsoring, or volunteering for the Pacific Rim Regional Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition, please refer to the links above.

The Organizing Committee are:

Barbara Endicott-Popovsky – CIAC Chair
Lucas Reber—CIAC Infrastructure Director
Amelia Phillips, Highline Community College – Host
Kurt Giessel, Highline Community College – Network Operations
NIATEC Idaho State University—Technical Build
Bob Bunge, DeVry University – Lead Technical Advisor
Don McLane– Technical Advisor
Rick Davidson– Technical Advisor
Corrinne Sande, Whatcom Community College – Rules Committee Nationals
Mike Acker, ISSA
Nikki Howard, Idaho State University
Dwayne Williams, National CCDC Advisor
Jeff Scaparra,  SPAWAR Atlantic, Red Team Technical Consultant
William Kozma, SPAWAR Atlantic, Blue Team Technical Consultant
Corey Thuen, Idaho National Laboratories – Advisor
Andy Willmer, , University of Washington Information School, Sponsors
Jackie Holmes, University of Washington Information School – Logistics