| title | NECCDC 2020 |
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| description | This years theme of Visibility, emphasizing the importance of maintaining an unobstructed view into security controls and incident responses. Participants were tasked with improving network awareness through asset inventory, log analysis, and SIEM systems. |
| weight | 7 |
| date | 2020-01-01 |
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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.
The 2020 NECCDC was hosted as a remotely accessible virtual event during March 21st and 22nd, 2020. This was due to the global COVID-19 pandemic taking place at the time.
The theme of NECCDC 2020 was visibility
In the Cybersecurity Industry, visibility can be defined as:
The facilitation of an unobstructed view into the operation of security controls and ease of organized access to information relevant to responding to security incidents efficiently.
- Inventory of assets and services
- Development and documentation of consistent technology processes
- Awareness of activity on various systems involved in providing services
- Log collection and analysis systems
- Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
- Network Intrusion Detection Systems
Visibility is the foundation for awareness of anomalies, completed by an organization's ability to implement effective security controls, and respond well to incidents:
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| {{< image src="/images/league-members/rit_vertical.svg" alt="RIT" width="25vw" height="auto" link="https://www.rit.edu/">}} | {{< image src="images/university-at-buffalo.png" alt="University of Buffalo, SUNY" width="25vw" height="auto" link="https://www.buffalo.edu/">}} | {{< image src="/images/league-members/albany-stacked.png" alt="University at Albany, SUNY" width="23vw" height="auto" link="https://www.albany.edu/">}} |
| Regionals |
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| {{< image src="/images/league-members/northeastern.svg" alt="Northeastern University" width="23vw" height="auto" link="https://www.northeastern.edu/">}} |
| {{< image src="/images/league-members/umass_lowell.png" alt="University of Massachusetts Lowell" width="12vw" height="auto" link="https://www.uml.edu/">}} |
| {{< image src="/images/league-members/champlain.jpg" alt="Champlain" width="30vw" height="auto" link="https://www.champlain.edu/">}} |
| {{< image src="/images/league-members/pace.png" alt="Pace University" width="20vw" height="auto" link="https://www.pace.edu/">}} |
| {{< image src="/images/league-members/west_point.png" alt="United States Military Academy West Point" width="13vw" height="auto" link="https://www.westpoint.edu/">}} |
| {{< image src="/images/league-members/umaine.png" alt="University of Maine" width="25vw" height="auto" link="https://www.umaine.edu/">}} |
| {{< image src="/images/league-members/new_haven.png" alt="University of New Haven" width="13vw" height="auto" link="https://www.newhaven.edu/">}} |
| Qualifiers |
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| {{< image src="/images/league-members/utica.png" alt="Utica University" width="18vw" height="auto" link="https://www.utica.edu/">}} |
| {{< image src="/images/league-members/wentworth.png" alt="Wentworth Institute of Technology" width="23vw" height="auto" link="https://www.wit.edu/">}} |
| {{< image alt="Syracuse University" src="/images/league-members/syracuse.png" width="20vw" height="auto" link="https://ischool.syr.edu/" >}} |
| {{< image alt="University of Southern Maine" src="/images/league-members/southern_maine.png" width="30vw" height="auto" link="https://usm.maine.edu/tech/" >}} |
| {{< image src="/images/league-members/umass_amherst.png" alt="University of Massachusetts Amherst" width="30vw" height="auto" link="https://www.umass.edu/">}} |
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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| Gold Sponsors |
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| {{< image alt="Spirent" src="images/spirent.png" width="25vw" height="auto" link="https://spirent.com/" >}} |
| Silver Sponsors |
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| {{< image alt="AWS" src="images/aws.png" width="18vw" height="auto" link="https://aws.amazon.com/security/" >}} |
| {{< image alt="Palo Alto Networks" src="images/paloalto.jpg" width="18vw" height="auto" link="https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/services/education/academy" >}} |
| {{< image alt="780th Military Intelligence Brigade" src="images/780th_military_int_brigade.png" width="18vw" height="auto" link="https://www.inscom.army.mil/msc/780mib/index.html" >}} |
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| Bronze Sponsors |
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| Supporter Sponsors |
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Over the course of the competition teams will need access to an array of documents containing information that will be important for their participation and practice. This page is a collection of those documents.
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