Date: March 11th
Time: 12:30-1:00 PM
Presentation: “You are the Smart Meter!”

Larry is a Senior Security Consultant with NWN Corporation in Waltham, MA. He also diverts a significant portion of his attention co-hosting the PaulDotCom Security Weekly podcast, and leads the research efforts in many areas, including projects such as “Evil” USB thumb drives, hiding rogue access points, and tinkering with wireless, RFID, Cellular SIM cards and metadata. Larry has also presented at Shmoocon and DEFCON, and was a contributing author to “How to Cheat at Configuring Open Source Security Tools” and “Wireshark and Ethereal” and authored “Linksys WRT54G Ultimate Hacking” from Syngress.

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Date: Thursday, March 10th
Time:1:30-2:30 PM
Presentation: “Offensive Countermeasures: The Basics”

Paul Asadoorian is currently the “Product Evangelist” for Tenable Network Security, where he showcases vulnerability scanning and management through blogs, podcasts and videos. Paul is also the founder of PaulDotCom, an organization centered around the award winning “PaulDotCom Security Weekly” podcast that brings listeners the latest in security news, vulnerabilities, research and interviews with the security industry’s finest. Paul has a background in penetration testing, intrusion detection, and is the author of “WRT54G Ultimate Hacking”, a book dedicated to hacking Linksys routers.

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The following terms are used to describe the various teams in the CyberWatch Mid-Atlantic Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (MA CCDC):

:: Gold Team/Operations Team: competition officials that organize, run, and manage the competition.
:: White Team: competition officials that observe team performance in their competition area and evaluate team performance and rule compliance.
:: Red Team: penetration testing professionals simulating external hackers attempting to gain unauthorized access to competition teams’ systems.
:: Black Team: competition support members that provide technical support, pick-up and deliver communications, and provide overall administrative support to the competition.
:: Blue Team/Competition Team: the institution competitive teams consisting of students competing in a CCDC event.
:: Team Captain: a student member of the Blue Team identified as the primary liaison between the Blue Team and the White Team.
:: Team Co-Captain: a student member of the Blue Team identified as the secondary or backup liaison between the Blue Team and the White Team, should the Team Captain be unavailable (e.g. not in the competition room).
:: Team Representatives: a faculty or staff representative of the Blue Team’s host institution responsible for serving as a liaison between competition officials and the Blue Team’s institution.

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Each year, the CyberWatch Mid-Atlantic CCDC presents a new exercise scenario and cutting-edge technologies that mimic those in the real world. This year’s scenario involves student teams working for the Haven Electric CoOp (HEC), a national electricity provider. With operations spread throughout the United States, HEC is a leading electric grid manager and reseller of Power Management Units (PMUs).

Because of risky investments, HEC has fallen on hard economic times and has been acquired by the U.S. government. Given the unstable future of the company, most of the IT staff has left for other jobs, while those remaining are less than effective. As a result, the government has brought in contractors to replace all the IT staff. The student teams are these contractors.

The student teams will be charged with maintaining and securing the network, while providing critical services and responding to the demands of clients, end users, upper management, and others. As employees of HEC, the students will also have access to the HEC Credit Union, where they can conduct their day-to-day banking.

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