March, 2010

  • Photographs from 5th Mid-Atlantic Regional CCDC

    :: from Kevin Donnelly

    1. Once at site, click Events
    2. Then click CCDC 2010
    3. Enjoy!

  • Slides from Guest Speaker: Larry Pesce, PaulDotCom

    :: Larry’s PPT slides, “Making of the CCDC Badge and Access Control System” (680 KB)
    :: Larry’s PPT slides, “Ways to Hack the Badge…and a Few Other Goodies” (1.8 MB)

  • Building the CCDC Badge System

    :: by Larry Pesce (from PaulDotCom)

  • Physical Access: RFID Badges

    :: Part II from Paul Asadoorian, Red Team Coordinator

  • Slides from Guest Speaker: Alan Greenberg, Boeing

    :: Download Alan’s PPT slides, “Delivering Cyber Solutions” (2.2 MB)

  • How to Score at a Hacking Competition

    :: Part I from Paul Asadoorian, Red Team Coordinator

  • Mid-Atlantic Regional CCDC in the News

    :: (03/11/10)

    :: The Baltimore Sun (03/15/10)

  • Congratulations to the team from Towson University, winners of the 5th Mid-Atlantic Regional Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (CCDC) this past weekend in Columbia, MD.

    Asheville-Buncombe Technical College, NC, Community College of Baltimore County, Millersville University, PA, and University of Maryland Baltimore County competed against Towson March 12-13 with the winner earning a berth in the National CCDC April16-18,2010 in San Antonio, TX.

    Finals standings:

    1. Towson University
    2. Community College of Baltimore County
    3. Millersville University

  • Panel Moderator: Brad Bowers

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    :: Date: Saturday, March 13
    :: Time: 5:00-6:00pm
    :: Panel Discussion: Careers in Information Security

    Brad Bowers is an IT Security professional who is passionate about what he does.  Brad has over 10 years of information security experience working for military and large corporations. He has worked in many areas of Information Security with a focus in Incident Response, System Forensics, and Threat Intelligence.

    When not tinkering with embedded devices, Brad is an evangelist and frequent presenter on the importance of information security and risk management. Brad is a GIAC Advisory Board Member and contributor to the SANS Incident Handling and Hacker Exploits course material as well as a local mentor for several of SANS’s courses.

    Brad is a graduate of Drexel University and holds numerous professional certifications including the GIAC Intrusion Analyst (GCIA), Incident Handling and Hacker Exploits (GCIH), Forensic Analysis (GCFA), and CISSP.

    Brad is currently the Information Security Assurance Manager for a large financial institution where he is responsible for the business’ Information Security Practice including Threat Management, Incident Response, and Risk Mitigation.

  • The Making of the CCDC Badge

    This year’s custom laser-cut badges also double as an access card for the contest space. The badge features a contactless proximity access card based on passive RFID technology, to be used in conjunction with a custom-designed access control system modeled after many common single-factor physical access control systems used world-wide.

    The students get to take the badges home with them and are provided with all the information they need to inexpensively re-create the access control system. In doing so, they can learn how to defeat and secure similar systems they may encounter throughout their career.

    Be sure to check out Larry Pesce’s talk on “The Making of the CCDC Badge,” Friday, March 12 at 12:30pm.

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