[COMPETITION]
Competition in cybersecurity plays a vital role for driving innovation and fostering talent. CyberUCI hosts competition teams for members who want to dive deeper into the competitive environment. We participate in the Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (CCDC), Hivestorm, and eCitadel. From Cyber's inception as an organization at UCI, we have consistently placed both regionally and nationally at major events.
The Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (CCDC) is the premier collegiate cybersecurity competition in the United States. Over 100 teams across different regionals and qualifiers compete every year. It is endorsed by Congress and sponsored by top defense companies, with winners receiving special attention as to recruitment. The scenario is that each college team, the Blue Team, inherits an identical corporate network and has to secure it against a live (not simulated!) team of penetration testers, the Red Team, otherwise known as “the hackers”, all while we are handed business tasks by the corporation who owns the network. It’s the best applied cybersecurity experience you can get in college.
UCI Advances to National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition
Cyber@UCI team places fourth in national cybersecurity competition