Cyber Competitions

Cyber Competitions

National Cyber League (NCL)

The NCL provides students an ongoing virtual training ground for faculty and students to develop and validate cybersecurity skills using content aligned with individual and team games – which is scalable across many industry certifications, curricula, and job roles. In order to help players develop knowledge and hands-on skills, prepare for the NCL games, and the CompTIA Security+™ and EC-Council Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)™ certification exams, the NCL provides a series of hands-on preparatory lab exercises, hosted in its virtual Gymnasiums.

The NCL games measured and validated the following competencies:

– Open Source Intelligence

– Network Traffic Analysis

– Log Analysis

– Scanning & Reconnaissance

– Access Exploitation

– Cryptography

– Password Cracking

– Web Application Exploitation

– Enumeration & Exploitation

National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (CCDC)

CCDC is a tiered competition that exercises both technical business skills. CCDC focuses on the operational aspects of managing and protecting an existing “commercial” network infrastructure.  Teams secure, manage and maintain a small business network. Team members respond to business tasks called “injects”, while a live “Red Team” attempts to break into the system.

SkillsUSA

SkillsUSA offers many opportunities for growth through career competitions. Students can compete at the local or state level. State winners go on the national competition: The SkillsUSA Championships. Students can participate in a variety of competitions such as: