About

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

  1. Promote fair and equitable standards for cyber defense and technology-based competitions that can be recognized by industry
  2. 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
  3. Demonstrate the effectiveness of each participating institution’s academic security (and related) programs
  4. Executed by a preponderance of industry professionals
  5. Have industry recognition, participation, and acceptance in each competition
  6. Rate the effectiveness of each competition against a predefined standard of competition rules
  7. Provide a cooperative and competitive atmosphere among industry partners and academia in the area of cyber defense education
  8. Provide recognition for participating teams
  9. Increase public awareness of academic and industry efforts in the area of cyber defense education
  10. Facilitate the pipeline for the next-generation cybersecurity workforce
  11. Develop competitor skills to respond to modern cybersecurity threats