Infrastructure
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.
Graphics
Our graphics subteam creates all of the digital art and designs to support our club's media presence and branding. Their work is displayed in our social media posts, flyers, stickers, presentations, and club merch, and they collaborate with all of our other subteams in their requests that involve artwork and designing.
Social Media
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.
Web
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, Sanity, and Vercel.
Outreach
Our outreach subteam supports and facilitates the club's external relationships, whether if its with other clubs, campus organizations & staff, clubs from other colleges and universities, or companies. They work closely with our graphics and social media subteams to support our club's branding and visibility, alongside developing sponsorship material for our outreach efforts.
CCDC
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.
CPTC
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.
CTF
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).
Research
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.