1st Pacific Rim Regional Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (Sponsored By The Honeynet Project)

The Honeynet Project was a proud sponsor of the 1^st Pacific Rim Regional Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition at the Microsoft campus last weekend. The CCDC was an educational event for graduate and undergraduate students in information security. In the competition, student teams were presented with a pre-configured system of a fictitious news company that they were tasked to operate and defend. A red team of penetration testers attempted to vandalize and break into the student's network. While attacks were launched on the student's networks, students were also tasked to fulfill common business tasks, for example setting up a HTTP proxy server or adding new users. Needless to say, the students were quite busy the whole two days.

There were nine teams competing (Eastern Washington, University of Idaho, Whatcom and Highline Community Colleges, University of Alaska, DeVry, and three UW teams from Informatics, CSE, and Tacoma's Institute of Technology). The winner of the competition was the team from the University of Washington's CSE department. Congratulations to them! (Pictures of the event can be found here: http://picasaweb.google.com/mischkajer/Ccdc200802?authkey=cEydFnlQaM0)

The event was organized by the Centre of Information Assurance & Cybersecurity headed by Barbara Endicott-Popovsky. Chris Hecker of the Alaska Honeynet Project and Christian Seifert from the New Zealand Honeynet Project volunteered and helped to organize the event.