The Southeastern Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (SECCDC) is the Southeastern U.S. qualifying event for the Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition system – the largest college-level cyber defense competition in the world. The event is held annually in the San Antonio area. The 5th National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition is scheduled for April 16–18, 2010. In June 2005, members of the Kennesaw State University

Kennesaw State University

Kennesaw State University, also referred to as KSU, Kennesaw, or Kennesaw State, is a public, coeducational, comprehensive university that is part of the University System of Georgia. The university's main campus is located in Kennesaw, Georgia, United States, approximately north of Atlanta...

’s Center for Information Security Education attended their presentation and recognized the value of the program. KSU 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 the National competition hosted by UTSA.

While similar to other cyber security competitions in many aspects, the SECCDC (like all events aligned with the NCCDC) focuses on the operational aspect of managing and protecting (defending) 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 are assessed 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.

Governance

The SECCDC is governed by a Board of Advisors which operates under a set of published bylaws. In March 2010, the bylaws were amended by the Board and all participating schools to enable KSU as the default venue for future SECCDC events.

2011

• Dates: March 08, 09, and 10, 2011
• Hosting Location: KSU, Kennesaw GA, Clendenin Computer Sciences Building
• Winner: University of Louisville, KY
• Other Competitors:
  • Fountainhead College of Technology, TN
  • Kennesaw State University, GA
  • Mercer University, GA
  • Northern Kentucky University, KY
  • University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC
  • Georgia Southern University, GA
  • Southern Polytechnic State University, GA
  • Tuskegee University, AL
  • University of South Florida, FL

2010

• Dates: March 10, 11, and 12, 2010
• Hosting Location: KSU, Kennesaw GA, Clendenin Computer Sciences Building
• Winner: University of Louisville, KY
• Other Competitors:
  • Chattanooga State Community College, TN
  • Fountainhead College of Technology, TN
  • Kennesaw State University, GA
  • Mercer University, GA
  • Northern Kentucky University, KY
  • University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC

2007

• Dates:
• Hosting Location: University of North Carolina, Charlotte
• Winner:
• Other Competitors:
  • Kennesaw State University

2006

• Dates:
• Hosting Location: KSU, Kennesaw GA
• Winner:
• Other Competitors:
  • Kennesaw State University

Rules

The competition is held using a set of SECCDC Board of Director's approved rules. The current rules are found at http://infosec.kennesaw.edu/SECCDC/rules.html

Trivia

• In the year 2011, three new award categories were added to the SECCDC: Best in Service, Business and Defense. That year the team from the University of Louisville took home all three of the awards.
• In 2011, A key logger that had been in use for 3 years on the windows machines was found by the University of Louisville team. They are the first to have done so.

External links

• General Information: http://infosec.kennesaw.edu/SECCDC/index.html
• Competition Rules: http://infosec.kennesaw.edu/SECCDC/rules.html
• Bylaws: http://infosec.kennesaw.edu/SECCDC/Charter-Bylaws_SECCDC_031910.pdf