Collegiate cyber defense competitions in the CCDC tradition, run by TxCR. Student teams harden and operate a business network while an industry red team attacks it.
Open to student teams. Each team inherits the same company network and keeps it running for a full day while an industry red team attacks. Hosted with CYBR.SEC.Community.
[Registration is by invitation only]
Get notice when dates are announced, plus the rules, network diagram and results after each event.
CYBR.SEC.Community brings students, coaches and practitioners together to train, share tools and form teams.
[Community link to confirm]Teams join by invitation. Contact us for details about TCDC 1.
Read the rules and network briefing, assign roles and rehearse. [Prep materials to confirm]
Keep services up, complete business injects and write incident reports while the red team attacks. TCDC 1 is open to student teams.
The white team publishes scores. The red team walks through what it found and how.
[Quote from a participant, coach or red teamer goes here once collected after TCDC Alpha.]
You do not need prior competition experience. You need skills that fit the network, time to work hard with a team, and the aim of keeping real systems running.
Systems, networking, security and software students from any major.
Advisors who prepare teams and use results in their programs.
Practitioners who attack, observe and debrief with students.
Reviewers who watch the scoring and meet emerging defenders.
TCDC follows the collegiate defense model used by the National CCDC, so skills and habits carry over. Start at TCDC 1, step up to SMC if your college qualifies, then take the format to CCDC-style events. [Pathway to confirm]
An open day for student teams to defend the same network and be scored on the same rules.
A dedicated event for the senior military colleges, with its own scoreboard.
Regional and national collegiate defense competitions that use the same blue, red and white team format.
Standings, scoring detail and red team write-ups from past events.
Placement with uptime, injects, reports and red team hits for each team. [Data to add]
Common weaknesses seen across teams and how the best teams closed them. [Report to add]
Metric definitions, weights and the rules of engagement for the red team. [Document to add]