Cyber Club - 2014 Events & Results
NYU Cyber Security Awareness Week CTF Competition
New York University's Cyber Security Awareness Week's policy competition took place from 13-15 November 2014. It invited student teams from universities to submit policy proposals based on the upcoming problem of regulating and securing the "internet of things." Three teams from the US Naval Academy--the White Covers, FrostByte, and Team USNA--submitted proposals and made it to the final round last week. FrostByte took second place and Team USNA took third place.
Members of the participating USNA Cyber Teams submitted the following cyber policy proposals:
- Team USNA - "A Policy Proposal on the Security of Networked Consumer Appliances"
- Team FrostByte - "Is Your Milk Safe? Policy For A New Era Of Cyber Crime"
- The White Covers - "Policy Proposal Memorandum"
CDX 2014
Designed to fill the CAPSTONE requirement for the United States Military Academy's Information Assurance course in 2001, the Cyber Defense Exercise (CDX) pits teams of cadets from each of the five US service academies against security experts within the Department of Defense. Each team is challenged to design, implement, and manage an operational network of computers. Management of various platforms (Windows, LINUX, Solaris, FreeBSD, etc.) is required and services such as web, email, public key infrastructure, and database sharing must be provided. Students are encouraged to establish architecture, policy, and procedures that invoke a defense-in-depth and defense-in-breadth posture to keep the aggressors at bay. To keep the playing field level, security measures are limited to open source freely available tools. Strategies and techniques employed by the students that were tested on the CDX battlefield have provided industry, academia, and government with valuable lessons. These lessons are related to work in network mapping, port scanning, vulnerability scanning, password integrity checking, network monitoring tools, intrusion detection systems, host-based and network-based firewalls, and layer-two bridges.
Background
These documents contain broad information about the principles and significance of CDX:
- "Architecture of a Cyber Defense Competition"
- "What the CDX Challenge Is"
- "Collective Views of the NSA/CSS Cyber Defense Exercise on Curricula and Learning Objectives"