NECCDC 2024

2024





Hosted By

Pace



Critical infrastructure, like power grids, water supply systems, transportation networks, and healthcare facilities, is essential for the functioning of our nation. Cyberattacks on these systems can disrupt daily life, compromise national security, and lead to significant economic and social consequences. Notwithstanding the immediate localized physical damage from dangerously high voltages, explosive gas or massive volumes of water, a successful critical infrastructure cyberattack could have longer-term impact across an area as large as a city, county, state or region.

To optimize production and meet business demand, critical infrastructure providers often maintain information systems that integrate information technology (IT) with operational technology (OT). Cybersecurity risk of these systems often results in tremendous financial impact and the implicit damage is hard to quantify. While the protection of their existing IT space is already challenging enough, cyber-defenders must now also grapple with the unfamiliar landscape of OT, whose systems and personnel typically have a fraction of the cybersecurity preparedness of their IT counterparts. Therefore, the theme of NECCDC 2024 is “Critical Controls, Protecting our Infrastructure”. Each Blue Team will be charged with safeguarding their familiar IT environment along with an interconnected industrial control system. A compromise in this environment can quickly become kinetic in a bad way, thus it is the responsibility of the competitors this season to mitigate the risk of this highly escalating scenario.

Please Save the dates for NECCDC 2024:
Regionals: Saturday - Monday March 23-25 2024


NECCDC would not be possible without the generous support of our sponsors. By becoming involved with this one-of-a-kind event, you have the opportunity to gain access to 100+ of the best and brightest students from colleges around the Northeast, observe the competitors in action, and promote your organization to maximize recruitment effectiveness as well as your increase exposure of your products and services.

INTERESTED SPONSORS: please see our how to sponsor page.

Vibranium Sponsors
NSF This competition is sponsored in part by National Science Foundation under grant number 2043095
Raytheon
Platinum Sponsors
Pace
Pace other
Silver Sponsors
Cisco Networking Academy
Paloalto networking academy
RSM
Crowdstrike
CISA
NSA
Bronze Sponsors
fortra
Supporter Sponsors
battele