Your 2016 National Cyber Defense Competition winners are:
1st place: Team 2: Watching the Watchers
2nd place: Team 9: 404 Team Not Found
3rd place: Team 15: Nullify from UNO
Congratulations teams on your success in this year’s competition. Thank you to all of the teams that participated. We hope you enjoyed the competition and that we see you again next year.
We would like to give a big thanks to all of the sponsors and volunteers that made this event successful.
On February 13th, the winners of the Fall CDC and the Community College CDC as well as teams from universities all over the country will be participating in the 2016 National Cyber Defense Competition. As always teams will face the ultimate test of their cyber security skills as the red team attempts to bring down their defenses and steal their flags.
However, this year there’s an added twist. For the first time the National CDC will be a cyber-physical competition. This means the systems that the teams are securing will also control a power station and water distribution plant simulated with hardware. The work the teams put in will make the difference between darkness and light for the population of this simulated town.
The 2016 National CDC is sure to be a unique and challenging experience for everyone involved.
The National Cyber Defense Competition was this Saturday. Thank you to the eleven teams that competed!
First Place (left): Team 2 Smash the Stack from Iowa State University
Second Place (right): Team 7 Team GNU/Awesome from Iowa State University
Third Place (left): Team 4 Behind 9 Proxies from Kansas State University
Team 1 CARL (right)
Team 2 Smash the Stack from Iowa State (left)
Team 3 CatBear from Northwest Missouri State University (right)
Team 4 Behind 9 Proxies from Kansas State University (left)
Team 5 Flaming Trex from Kirkwood Community College (right)
Team 7 Team GNU/Awesome from Iowa State University (left)
Team 8 BROForce from University of Nebraska Omaha (right)
Team 9 403 Forbidden from University of Northern Iowa (left)
Team 10 Children of the Kernel from Upper Iowa University (right)
Team 11 sI Train from University of Northern Iowa (left)
Team 12 99 Problems But Security Ain’t One from Des Moines Area Community College (right)
Hey everyone,
We made the news! The local TV stations picked us up:
13 (WHO): http://whotv.com/2014/02/09/cyber-defense-competition-teaches-internet-data-security/
8 (KCCI): http://www.kcci.com/news/central-iowa/iowa-state-hosts-national-cyber-defense-competition/24372266
So did the newspapers:
Ames Tribune: http://amestrib.com/news/isu-s-cyber-defense-competition-provides-real-life-experience
Iowa State Daily: http://www.iowastatedaily.com/news/article_4e9dde66-9135-11e3-b825-001a4bcf887a.html
The four provided images are now available for download. Keep in mind these images have vulnerabilities and should not be run in sensitive environments!
NCDC13_Web | NCDC13_Shell | NCDC13_Exchange | NCDC13_DC
These files are also mirrored here.
The VMs can be run using the free VMware Player or the non-free VMware Workstation, which may be provided by your academic institution. If you’d like to run these on a local ESXi server instead, grab VMware vCenter Converter Standalone to convert them to the correct format. (You’ll need to register a free account with VMware to download ESXi and vCenter Converter).