CCDC 2009

4th Mid-Atlantic CCDC

:: Qualifying Rounds: January 17 and January 24, 2009 (Lancaster, PA)
:: Final Regional: March 27-29, 2009 (Baltimore, MD)

The student team from the University of Pittsburgh won, what was by far, the most challenging Mid-Atlantic Regional CCDC to-date, besting teams from George Washington University, James Madison University, and last year’s Regional winner, the Community College of Baltimore County. With the win, the Pitt team will represent the Mid-Atlantic Region at the National CCDC, April 17-19 in San Antonio, TX.
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Qualifying Round Winning Teams

  • Community College of Baltimore County
  • George Washington University
  • James Madison University
  • University of Pittsburgh

2009 Technologies and Systems

Working as IT staff for the fictitious company, TrainerCorp., the student teams assumed operational responsibility of a network that included:
  • SCADA-controlled systems (purpose-built especially for the competition)
  • VoIP/GSM-integrated system with 2 IP phones and 1 team captain cell phone
  • 13 physical systems running: Windows Server 2008 (Active Directory w/10,000 user accounts and Primary DNS), Windows Server 2003 (Exchange w/10,000 paired mailboxes), Windows 2000 Server (Legacy telnet server), Windows Vista (user desktops), Debian 4.0 (Team Dashboard), Fedora Core 7 (Nagios) and 10 (Moodle Server and Moodle DB), Red Hat 7.2 (Secondary DNS),
  • FreeBSD 6.2 (FreeNAS), and CentOS 4.3 (Asterisk)
  • Cisco ASA 5505 firewall, 2801 router, and 2950 switch

Hackers

In addition to keeping the TrainerCorp. network running, the student teams had to protect their networks from some of the best hackers: Seth Fogie, Rob Fuller (AKA mubix), Paul Asadoorian (AKA PaulDotCom), Brad Bowers, Brian Carty, Omar Fink, Seth Fogie, Rob Fuller, Russell Handorf, Scott Hazel, Ken Johnson, Michael LaSalvia, Jack Mannino, David Parillo, Jerry Shenk and Josh Tornetta.

Photos

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Special Thanks

To all the teams for a great weekend and a huge thanks to all involved (you know who you are). Thanks for making the Qualifying and Regional rounds a huge success:

:: National Science Foundation
:: CyberWATCH Center
:: White Wolf Security:

  • Tim Rosenberg
  • Dwight Hobbs
  • Joe DeCree
:: Volunteers:
  • Kerry McKay – George Washington University
  • Michael Dougherty – Bogdan Computer Services, Inc.
  • Becki Dorffner – Community College of Baltimore County
  • Jeff Yates – Community College of Baltimore County

:: Student teams and faculty from:

  • Anne Arundel Community College
  • Community College of Baltimore County
  • George Mason University
  • George Washington University
  • James Madison University
  • Millersville University
  • Towson University
  • University of Pittsburgh

Hosted By

  • Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab (JHU APL)
  • CyberWatch Center
  • National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • Prince George's Community College (PGCC)