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3nd Pacific Rim Regional Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition
March 20 – 21, 2010
Highline Community College


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
    Don McLane – UWIT Tacoma
    Corrinne Sande — Whatcom Community College
    Brian Hay – University of Alaska
    Bob Bunge – DeVry University
    Christian Seifert – Victoria University of Wellington, NZ
    Michelle Moore – Microsoft
    Mike Acker - ISSA
    Rick Davidson - University of Washington
    Brady Bloxham - Idaho State University
    Dwayne Williams – National CCDC Advisor


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