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The Northeast Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (NECCDC) tests each team’s ability to operate, secure, manage, and maintain a corporate network. This competition creates as closely as possible, a realistic corporate administration and security experience - giving the competitors a chance to compare their education and training against their peers and the real world challenges that await them.
After two outstanding remote seasons, we were excited that the 2022 NECCDC Regional will be hosted on-site at Champlain College’s Burlington, Vermont campus.
Theme
The theme of the NECCDC 2022 Season is “The Hunt”. Student competitors are expected to be able to implement and maintain technologies that improve an organization’s network and service visibility.
As the industry has seen in the last several months, computer systems and the software that they run can become vulnerable. Systems may need to be secured with little planning or forethought, which presents a unique set of challenges to those tasked with their security. This is particularly true when security teams have little advanced warning to implement new changes that may interfere with the operability of organizational services. Endpoint detection and identity management become paramount while perimeter security and utilization of trusted systems become much more difficult. Similarly, supporting these systems and their users becomes more challenging when leveraging zero trust.
Concepts involved in the theme of “The Hunt” include:
- Relationship between host-based and network-based protection
- Evaluating trust relationships between systems
- Understanding the strategic objectives of adversaries in a highly agile environment
- Utilizing the SOC and NOC teams’ tools, techniques and procedures
Technologies and processes that often help support security:
- Robust authentication and access control systems
- Strong endpoint detection and monitoring
- Inventories and asset management
- Incident response tools
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Sponsor
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.
Sponsors have a chance for exclusive resume access, participation in the competition, active collaboration (in-kind donations, training, mentorship, inject development), sharing of job opportunities / company information, and networking with students during the event. Your contributions are essential in creating a better quality environment for our students to learn and grow while developing a pipeline for their future success.
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