On March 1 - 3, 2008 , Kennesaw State University will be hosting the third Southeast Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition. In an effort to help facilitate the development of a regular, national level cyber security exercise, the Center for Infrastructure Assurance and Security at the University of Texas at San Antonio hosted the first Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (CCDC) for the Southwestern region in May 2005. In June 2005, members of the Kennesaw State University ’s Center for Information Security Education attended their presentation and recognized the value of the program. We immediately volunteered to create a similar event at KSU in 2006, to provide a regional competition to recognize the best team in the Southeast, and to work to sponsor that team to a National competition to be developed by UTSA.

While similar to other cyber defense competitions in many aspects, the SECCDC, as part of the CCDC, is unique in that it focuses on the operational aspect of managing and protecting an existing network infrastructure. While other exercises examine the abilities of a group of students to design, configure, and protect a network over the course of an entire semester, this competition is focused on the more operational task of assuming administrative and protective duties for an existing “commercial” network. Teams will be scored based on their ability to detect and respond to outside threats, maintain availability of existing services such as mail servers and web servers, respond to business requests such as the addition or removal of additional services, and balance security needs against business needs.

In 2006 - The University of North Carolina Charlotte won the SECCDC and went on to win at Nationals!

In 2007 - The University of Louisville won the SECCDC.

Call for Teams:

Click on the Team Info tab above for information on teams.

Teams as of 1/31/08

• Kennesaw State University, Georgia
• Mercer University, Georgia
• Southern Polytechnic and State Univerity, Georgia
• University of Alabama, Birmingham
• University of Louisville, Kentucky
• University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Check back often for additional information.

Call for Support and Sponsorships:

Click on the Sponsorships tab above for information on sponsorship opportunities.

For additional information contact
Dr. Mike Whitman at mwhitman@kennesaw.edu

This competition is sponsored in part by:

Platinum:

Gold:

Computer Science & Information Systems Dept

Silver:

Special Thanks to the National CCDC, and
the University of Texas, San Antonio's Center for Infrastructure Assurance and Security
for their endorsement and support for this competition.