NECCDC

The Northeast Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (NECCDC) is designed to provide a controlled competitive environment that will permit each participating institution to assess their students’ depth of understanding and operational competency in managing the challenges inherent in protecting enterprise network infrastructure and business information systems.

NECCDC provides an opportunity for qualified educational institutions in the Northeast to compete in this environment and is part of a national ccdc, which provides a unified approach for nine regions across the country.

Competition Goals

  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 of 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

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