The Northeast Collegiate Cyber Defense League, Inc., is a 501(c)(3) registered non-profit organization.
The NECCDL relies on the support of league member institutions and sponsors to provide administrative and organizational services for regional competitions. We would welcome your non-profit donation through PayPal.
For more information on becoming a League supporter, please get in touch with us at sponsor@neccdl.org
Interested in volunteering? Check out our volunteer page
The League’s Mission Statement
- Promote fair and equitable standards for cyber defense and technology-based competitions that can be recognized by industry
- Evaluate the defensive and responsive skills of each team under hardware, software application, and operating system configurations using a joint academic and industry rating scale
- Demonstrate the effectiveness of each participating institution’s academic security (and related) programs
- Executed by a preponderance of industry professionals
- Have industry recognition, participation, and acceptance in each competition
- Rate the effectiveness of each competition against a predefined standard of competition rules
- Provide a cooperative and competitive atmosphere among industry partners and academia in the area of cyber defense education
- Provide recognition for participating teams
- Increase public awareness of academic and industry efforts in the area of cyber defense education
- Facilitate the pipeline for the next-generation cybersecurity workforce
- Develop competitor skills to respond to modern cybersecurity threats