Northeast Collegiate Cyber Defense League

The Northeast Collegiate Cyber Defense League (NECCDL) is an administrative body whose sole purpose is to facilitate the smooth running of NECCDC regardless of hosting institution. We include membership annually from ~20 higher education institutions and colleges across CT, MA, ME, NH, NY, RI and VT. The Northeast Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (NECCDC) is designed to provide a controlled competitive environment that will permit each participating institution to assess their students’ depth of understanding and operational competency in managing the challenges inherent in protecting enterprise network infrastructure and business information systems. NECCDC provides an opportunity for qualified educational institutions in the Northeast to compete in this environment and is part of a national organization (see www.nationalccdc.org), which provides a unified approach for nine regions across the country. Qualified educational institutions include those with information assurance or computer security curricula. COMPETITION GOALS To promote fair and equitable standards for cyber defense and technology-based competitions that can be recognized by industry To evaluate the defensive and responsive skills of each team under hardware, software application, and operating system configurations using a joint academic and industry rating scale To demonstrate the effectiveness of each participating institution’s academic security (and related) programs To be executed by a preponderance of industry professionals To have industry recognition, participation and acceptance of each competition To rate the effectiveness of each competition against a predefined standard of competition rules To provide a cooperative and competitive atmosphere among industry partners and academia in the area of cyber defense education To provide recognition for participating teams