Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition Club

The Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (CCDC) challenges students to defend network services against attacks by professional penetration testers (the "red team"). While the red team is trying to hack into each of the student networks, students are also given business tasks to perform such as adding users, changing web content, and creating budgets and project timelines. It makes for an exciting weekend! DeVry's Seattle campus sent a team to the first annual Pacific Rim Regional CCDC in 2008, and we are headed back for the 2009 competition on March 28-29. CCDC provides valuable career-oriented experience for our students and it gives them contacts with competition sponsors such as Microsoft, Cisco, and Napera.

Club Founded: November 28, 2007

Club Advisor: Professor Bob Bunge

Club President: Phil Almueti

Club Secretary: Craig Phillips

Club Meeting Times:  Wednesdays 4-6pm

Cybersecurity: The First Pacific Rim Regional Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition

Check out the video from the 2008 competition:Cybersecurity: The First Pacific Rim Regional Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition. The First Pacific Rim Regional Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition-or "Geeks Under Attack!"- tested students' ability to protect enterprise network and business information systems. Hosted by Microsoft and organized by Barbara Endicott-Popovsky, Director of the Center for Information Assurance and Cybersecurity at the University of Washington Information School, PRCCDC offered a challenging proving ground for nine teams of rising cybersecurity professionals. The documentary was funded by a generous gift from Microsoft.