The headlines are full of stories about the growing number
of job opportunities for what
may be a too-small pool of young cyber-defenders and incident responders.
At Guidance Software, we support universities with our EnCase
Academic Program to help ensure that the up-and-coming generation of information
security specialists has the tools and technology they need to work like
seasoned professionals do. To that end, we are also proud to be a Gold sponsor
of the National Collegiate Cyber Defense
Competition (NCCDC).
Ten finalist teams from more than 180 colleges and
universities will participate in this national competition, held in San
Antonio, Texas from April 25-27. To support this valuable training exercise, we
supplied EnCase software network-wide, some EnCase training for all
contestants, and will staff the volunteer Red Team with an EnCase
incident-response expert.
About the Competition
The NCCDC website explains the event this way:
CCDC competitions ask student teams to
assume administrative and protective duties for an existing “commercial” network–typically
a small company with 50+ users, 7 to 10 servers, and common Internet services
such as a web server, mail server, and e-commerce site. Each team begins the
competition with an identical set of hardware and software and is scored 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. Throughout the competition an
automated scoring engine is used to verify the functionality and availability
of each team’s services on a periodic basis and traffic generators continuously
feed simulated user traffic into the competition network. A volunteer red
team provides the “external threat” all Internet-based services face and allows
the teams to match their defensive skills against live opponents.
We enthusiastically support everyone in the competition, and
wish everyone luck in learning how to fight the good fight against hackers,
crackers, and thieves.
Will You Be
Competing? Have a Comment? We welcome discussion in the Comments section
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