Find out what happens when 70 universities and 1000 volunteers participate in a cyber security competition

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Presented at BSidesKnoxville 2019 by

Raymond Borges

Chris Craig

Jeff Nichols

This talk will describe the full competition environment and structure, the various ways that this competition helps with workforce development, datasets captured competition day, and the relationships between businesses, universities, military, and laboratories that are a part of this competition. In addition, for this B-Sides talk, we will describe the technical details behind the competition. Especially interesting to the audience will be:The role of the Red Team attackers. In the most recent competition the Red Teams operated as an inside threat.The technical details for how Azure was used to facilitate the hybrid structure of the competition.The preparation of the computer systems given to the students.The ICS devices and how SCADA protocols are implemented for the contest.Some overall story arcs of how vulnerabilities were built-in, found, and exploited.The competition put the students into the scenario of being new employees in an unfamiliar environment, charged with supporting and protecting a vital business, using systems that they did not set up. This scenario describes what most security professionals face often in their careers.