1. Palmetto Cyber Defense Competition 2017 Kick-Off Enterprise Meeting
1 November 2017
Jeff Sweeney PCDC Director
Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic (SSC Atlantic)
59500 Information Systems Security Operations (USN)
For PCDC Planning Purposes Only

2. PCDC 2017 PCDC is tentatively scheduled for Trident Technical College
Conf Code:
PCDC is tentatively scheduled for
Trident Technical College
On 8/9/10 April 2017

3. 2016 Results High School Collegiate Pro South Carolina– 2nd place
Palmetto Scholars Academy North Charleston - 1st place
Clemson–1st place
South Carolina– 2nd place
Porter Gaud –2nd place
Stratford- Goose Creek -3rd place
The Citadel –3rd place

4. PCDC 2016 Highlights Job offers went to several PCDC participants
Guest Speakers
South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley (open invite for future)
SPAWAR Systems Center Atlantic Commanding Officer Captain Scott Heller
General Eisner
General Brock
Cyber Forensics Challenge was extremely popular and successful
Job offers went to several PCDC participants
Teams enjoyed medical supplies delivery scenario

5. PCDC 2017 Status
Gold Team
Still working on developing scenario, possibilities:
Upgrade last year’s scenario
On-line Banking
SCADA/Train
Injects: Looking to balance very challenging reverse engineering/forensics related injects of 2016 with easier risk mitigation related injects of 2015.
Looking to upgrade equipment, providing specs, contacted CDWG
SPAWAR fully funded for PCDC 2017 government labor
Don’t currently predict any major schedule changes from 2016
Will start PCDC 2017 Enterprise meetings every two weeks in January

6. PCDC 2017 Status
Secretary of the Air Force, Deborah Lee James has tentatively accepted invitation to speak on Monday
PCDC swag bag stuff – Will better coordinate this year
2016: koozies, 8G thumb drives (TTC), SPAWAR water bottle/bags/pens
Still planning on Challenge coins and T-shirts
Have Sponsorship and High School focused brochures
MERCOM Raspberry PIs and kits?
Vetting
Sunday Collegiate Day- Need to gage interest to use SE Regional CCDC Remote Qualifier to open qualifying to entire state. Currently only one additional school has confirmed interest –Lander University in Greenwood
Two plasma displays inside front doors of auditorium
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7. PCDC 2016 Status
Don’t currently predict any major schedule changes for 2017
May not do National Guard classes this year?
National Anthem each day – POC: Ken Dilks
Honor Guard on Monday – POC: Ken Dilks
Will again imbed 1 student from each College for Pro Day and one from TTC for each Pro Team
Will again collect school song choices from each school
Current Industry Pro Day Team verbal commitments
SRC, CSRA, IMS, SAIC
SCANA Energy pending

8. PCDC 2017 Status Ashley Caldwell at Pearson:
Offered 10 test vouchers for Microsoft Tech Associate
Set up raffle for these, 2 Security + vouchers went to MVPs
Will contact to see if they interested in repeating
Cyber Forensics Challenge: Sponsorship open
Pro Day Q&A sessions will again be held. Dates TBD
Invitation to speak on Sunday is being extended to several people including Walter O'Brien, claimed to have hacked NSA at 13
Also looking at leaders from Dell, Google

9. PCDC 2017 Status Awards (Sat/Sun): AFCEA Updates – Ken Dilks: sponsors
1st place: $500 each, National Guard Backpack? and Challenge Cup for one year.
Top 3 places: Medals, team trophy.
Others (i.e. earbuds)
7 plaques (increase over 5 from 2016), medals and lanyards
MVP $1,000 on Saturday and Sunday
Additional cost for trophies since Pro-2-Serve sponsorship has ended
AFCEA Updates – Ken Dilks: sponsors
Will continue to emphasize recruitment, SSC Atlantic is looking for engineers and computer scientists

10. Sponsorship – Contact AFCEA
Point of Contact:
Kenneth R. Dilks, AFCEA PCDC Committee Chair

11. Recruitment
Students may send soft copy of resume to Ken Dilks at for distribution to sponsors
Students can also send their resumes and transcripts to for potential SPAWAR employment. Focusing mostly on Collegiate Juniors for next year graduation.
SPAWAR is looking to offer tentative on-the-spot (within 2 days) job offers for select students at the competition. Students need to bring hard copy of resume and transcripts.
Sign up and can you be notified of openings on USAJOBS:
Will have SPAWAR recruitment brochures at event
Colleges are permitted to be there on Saturday for recruiting high school students- afternoon is best time.

12. Saturday, April 9, 2016 High School Competition Schedule
7:00 am – 7:30 am: Registration
7:15 am – 7:20 am: Team location drawing
7:20 am – 7:30 am: Blue Teams Briefing
7:30 am – 7:45 am: Opening Ceremony
7:45 am – 9:15 am: Initial Injects / Secure the Network
9:15 am – 3:30 pm: Operate Network Under Hacker Attacks
10:00 am – 11:00 pm: National Guard Presentation:
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm : National Guard Presentation:
3:30 pm – 4:00 pm: Red Team members visit Blue Teams
4:00 pm – 4:30 pm: Break/View Sponsor Booths
4:30 pm – 5:00 pm: Blue Team Presentations
5:00 pm – 5:15 pm: Red/Gold Team Debrief: Common Mistakes
5:15 pm – 5:20 pm: South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley
SPAWARSYSCEN Atlantic CO Captain Scott Heller
5:20 pm – 5:55 pm: Awards / Closing Ceremony

13. 2017 Cyber Forensic Challenge
Objective: Solve as many forensic scenarios as possible within the allotted time and accumulate the most points possible –
Participants will be provided access to a forensic scenario exercises ranging in difficulty. Each exercise will require the participant to utilize different forensic techniques to uncover a designated “flag”. Flags will be unique to each scenario which can range from date/time stamps, hashes, passwords, etc.
Challenge examples:
Hidden data: Find a specific “Key” word
Hashing: Identify the correct hash of a file
Metadata: Identify a particular embedded metadata element
Data Recovery:Recover a specific filename
Password Cracking: Malware, PCAP, Memory Analysis
Any attendee at the PCDC event may compete
Automated scoring issues to be resolved
Will get word out to high schools
2017 will have two separate divisions: high school and collegiate/professional
Planning on doubling the capacity of allowable participants for 2017 (50-60?)
Excludes PCDC Staff, SPAWAR Employees and High School PCDC team members
Individual participation only: Cannot receive help from others

14. PCDC 2017 Team Leads (843-218-3934), william.p.littleton@navy.mil
Red (hackers)– Sam Cappella/Bryan Rhodes ( )
White (judges) – Andrew Osti ( )
Blue (mentors)/High School Coordinator – Dennis Wilson ( )
Gold (network infrastructure)– Scott Bell ( )
Cyber Forensics Challenge – Bill Littleton
( ),

15. TEAM PCDC 2016

16. Thanks to our 2016 Corporate Sponsors!. 16

17. Thanks to our 2016 Corporate Sponsors
Dilks - Simone, Inc 17

18. Important Links PCDC Website: pcdc-sc.com
PCDC Facebook:
PCDC Twitter:
Cyber Patriot:
AFCEA:
#PCDC

19. PCDC 2017 Primary POCs Jeff Sweeney, SSC Atlantic, PCDC Director,
Bob Miller, SSC Atlantic, PCDC Deputy Director ,
Vince Van Houten, SSC Atlantic, PCDC Facilitator, Collegiate Coordinator ,
Scott Bell, SSC Atlantic, PCDC Gold Team Tech Lead ,
Whitney Bridges, AFCEA Treasurer ,
Ken Dilks, AFCEA PCDC Lead, Dilks-Simone, Inc ,
Tonya Davis, Trident Technical College ,
Don Pearsall, AFCEA President ,
Dennis Wilson, SPAWAR, Blue Team Mentor Lead, High School Coordinator ,

20. Wrap Up
Thoughts?
Big Ideas?
Innovations?
Questions?
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