Subteams

The Infrastructure team is responsible for managing all aspects of our technical and hardware operations. They oversee the maintenance of our on-premise hardware located in our club's dedicated lab-space (ISEB 1550), and work with UCI's Office of IT to address networking issues that may impact our activities. The team manages environments for our competitive teams to practice and interactive demo environments used during workshops, enabling participants to gain hands-on experience. Additionally, the Infrastructure team manages and hosts various tools for internal club use to further support ongoing operations and facilitate member collaboration.

[Learn more: https://cyberuci.com/subteams/graphics]

Graphics is the face of Cyber@UCI! We bring the club’s ideas and events to life through creative design. Our team creates engaging content for the club’s Instagram and social media, designs custom merchandise for members including T-shirts, hoodies, keychains, and stickers, and collaborates with other teams on creative projects. From developing 3D assets and splines to designing event flyers and supporting club-wide initiatives, we help shape Cyber@UCI’s visual identity and make our ideas stand out.

Our social media subteam manages the Cyber@UCI Instagram and TikTok accounts (which you can both follow @cyberuci), alongside responding to any inquiries and requests that come through our various media channels. They also create shorts/reels as a part of our club's advertising efforts. They coordinate closely with our graphics and outreach subteams to maintain a communicative and visible media presence for our club.

Our web subteam develops and maintains our club's website, cyberuci.com. They work closely with every other subteam in the club to keep all of the information on the site up-to-date, including our competition accomplishments, news article features, club leadership, sponsorships, and contact points. The site is supported and developed with a variety of modern tooling and frameworks including Svelte, SvelteKit, and Sanity.

[Learn more: https://cyberuci.com/subteams/outreach]

Outreach extends Cyber@UCI's impact beyond campus. Our goal is to inspire the next generation of cybersecurity professionals. We bring free cybersecurity education into K-12 classrooms, invite guest speakers to share their journeys with our members, and build partnerships that support the club's efforts. Alongside our other subteams, we carry Cyber@UCI's mission outward, so the work of our competition teams, workshop leads, and members reaches beyond our own community.

Our research subteam is designed to support a diverse array of projects that our club members are interested in, with such projects often spawning from an individual's self-initiative and passion in a particular security-related topic. We also have the capability to work closely with ICS faculty who focus on various security research topics, including software security, system security, privacy, AI & security, security education, and more.

One of our primary Cyber@UCI verticals is competing in the Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (CCDC). Our CCDC team has consistently placed in the high ranks at both the regional, where we compete in the Western Region, and national levels, including a national championship in the 2024-25 season. Throughout the year, they prepare strategies and resources, hold intensive practices, and create networks emulating a corporate environment for mock internal competitions. The team typically holds training and tryouts in the Fall Quarter, and spends Winter and Spring Quarter preparing for qualifiers, regionals, and (hopefully) nationals.

With a comeback for the 2025-26 season after competing for the very first time 3 years ago, our Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition (CPTC) team focuses on offensive security centered around penetration testing engagements emulating a real-world environment, and we compete in the Southern California region for a shot at making it to CPTC Globals every year. The team holds training and tryouts typically in Spring Quarter, and spends all of Summer and Fall Quarters training for the regional event.

Our Capture The Flag (CTF) subteam is an open group that both focuses on facilitating our club members' participation in CTF events/competitions and teaching those new to CTFs on what are CTFs, the common categories, and how to learn and get involved. You can find our CTF team on CTFtime under the name "Cyber @ UCI", but our CTF team name is p3trpreter (pronounced similarly to the Meterpreter payload tool).