1. Palmetto Cyber Defense Competition 2017 Enterprise Meeting
9 March 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 scheduled for Trident Technical College
Dial-in: (877) , New Conf Code:
PCDC is scheduled for
Trident Technical College
On 8/9/10 April 2017
There are 30 days to go!
PCDC 2017 Enterprise meetings are now held every two weeks

3. 2017 Participating Schools
High School – Saturday, 8 April
Collegiate – Sunday, 9 April
Palmetto Scholars Academy – North Charleston - 1st place 2016
Clemson – 1st place 2016
South Carolina –2st place 2016
Porter Gaud- Charleston-2nd
The Citadel – 3rd place 2016
Stratford –Goose Creek, 3rd place 2016
Qualified through CyberPatriot:
Trident Technical College
Qualified through SECCDC:
Blythewood
Claflin University
Wando – Mt. Pleasant
ECPI University
South Aiken
Charleston Southern University
Home School Network
College of Charleston
Ashley Ridge – Summerville

4. 2017 Pro Day Participants Corporate Government NCDOC
U.S. Army Cyber Command

5. PCDC 2017
Hurricanes, Pirates, OH MY!

6. PCDC 2017 Status PCDC 2017 SPAWAR Logo Swag Bag
1 Challenge Coin (updated year and adding “V” to signify 5th year): ordered
T-shirt: Participant orders, still collecting Red and Gold team orders
PCDC/AFCEA logo Mug – ordering 250 (D. Donaldson)
Other sponsor logo swag items being accepted
PCDC Logo mini LED flashlights: being ordered
Looking to get badges by 5 April to add to bags, College names sent
Drones with Programming Kit: one for each HS, MERCOM ordering 4, other 4 will come from general fund?
Additional swag offered by ECPI & ?
Lunch orders in, just need to be delivered to Trish

7. PCDC 2017 Status
Gold Team
Work progressing at Parsons prestaging facility, weekly meetings on Tues
Display size 40” (135#) for quad display
Quad: Services, Nagios, Ocean/ships, team logo?
Design frozen on 3/7/17
VOIP expert – Atri Amin
Need Call Manager –status, still working it
Prep Guide updated with schedule, rules and
Security Onion info posted 24 Feb.
Diagram being updated and posted separately
James Burress assigned Nagios, loaded
Ships will not require intervention like trucks
from last year
Facebook pages updated with Forensics
Competition info, 2017 dates & 2016 pictures
Receiving lots of hits

8. PCDC 2017 Status
Critical Need: Sponsor pledges fulfilled. All items such as coins, PCDC logo items, trophies, medals, lanyards, being ordered. Still waiting on gold and red team T-shirt orders.
Dell: Laptops (online or Best Buy), 17”, 8G memory, 1 TB HD
Invitation to speak on Sunday will be made on Friday
Held TTC/SPAWAR/AFCEA coordination meeting on 27 Feb at TTC
Registration Packets received from all schools. Have T-shirt and meal orders
Music coordinator- Stephen Stills, awaiting song choices
100 extra chairs for Monday for keynote speaker- will replace Forensics Horseshoe
May be visited by Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and the Acting Secretary of Defense for Research.

9. PCDC 2017 Status Ashley Caldwell at Pearson:
Will again offer test vouchers for Microsoft Tech Associate (raffle off)
Again offering other give-aways
Briefed PCDC to Colorado Springs Chamber of Commerce delegation yesterday.
Volunteer Staff food provided in adjacent building: POCs: Debbie Donaldson and Karen Cooke
Saturday: La Nortena: confirmed
Sunday: BBQ: Home Team BBQ (can’t donate, $10.50/person w/mac&cheese and baked beans), Jim and Nicks?
Monday: Moes? Visiting Thursday.

10. PCDC 2017 Status Awards (Sat/Sun): Supplies:
1st place: $500 each, National Guard Backpack and Challenge Cup for one year.
LCE has provided mobile chargers for members of winning team each day
MVP $1,000 on Saturday and Sunday
New trophies sponsor – Life Cycle Engineering Challenge Cup
Order from All American Awards in Mt. Pleasant
Sponsor Appreciation plaques (25+)
Supplies:
CD/DVDs, printer cartridge, Dry erase makers
Larger white boards? Need better, free standing: nice to have

11. PCDC 2017 Status (Collegiate Day)
1st Q&A Sessions will be held on Wednesday, 15 March from 2-3 PM
Charleston SC
TOLL FREE * This has limited capacity. ONLY use if a local # was not provided for your geographical area above
ID/Reservation Number: 99166#
SECCDC Qualifier is in and we have a new school: Claflin
Received a request from professor at University of Maryland to compete
David Ferreira from Horry Georgetown Tech College plans on visiting and may enter qualifier next year
Will need name of students for Pro Day imbed
Will utilize qualifier again next year

12. Pro Day Status
Will again imbed 1 student from each College and 1 from TTC for each team
Army Cyber Team from Ft. Gordon: looking at 5 man team from Cyber Protection Brigade
Q&A sessions will again be held. Dates: March TBD
SCNG and NCDOC confirmed
May need to adjust schedule to accomodate Senator Scott
SC Cyber Proposal (Tom Scott): Hold Lock down Your Login Awareness Event for people in another room at TTC and combine for keynote speaker: Senator Tim Scott (still unconfirmed) Tonya Davis secured use of a room that hold 200+.
Industry Pro Day Team commitments:
SRC, CSRA, SAIC, SCANA Energy, Parsons 12

13. Information Bullets National Anthem: Paulatoria Jones
New rules to dissuade use of cell phones on campus to aid team
Will again imbed 1 student from each College and 1 from TTC for each team
Have Sponsorship, Collegiate, Pro Day and High School focused brochures on website if needed by anyone
No reach back to collegiate advisors available this year
Will need dividers from SRC again this year
Did you know High Schools get 90 min, Colleges get 30 min and Pros get no break before Red team hackers attack?
Bob Miller assigned task of monitoring snacks and lunches
Roll around chairs from TTC available on HS and Collegiate days only

14. 2017 Palmetto Digital Forensics Competition (PDFC)
Objective: Solve as many forensic scenarios as possible within the allotted time and accumulate the most points possible
Participants will be provided access to 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.
Sponsorship by BAH and Sentar
Holding meetings every couple weeks at SRC,
tomorrow is next
Pre-Registration required to guarantee slot (2 per
School)
2017 high school and collegiate/pro divisions: 1st 2nd & 3rd place prizes
1st place: Trophy and tablet, 2nd place Swiss Army Backpack, 3rd ODROID
Reserved slots for students from schools that finished in top 6-10 in CyberPatriot: Pinewood, Summerville, DW Daniels, Nation Ford, Lexington Composite Squadron:
Registration info posted on PCDC website & Facebook
PDFC T-shirts will list SENTAR and BAH as sponsors

15. Cyber-In-The Middle
PCDC’s Inaugural Middle School Program – Karen Cooke (Lead)
Received tentative approval from TTC
Trying to influence 7th & 8th graders before they decide on high school track
Must do consent waivers
Students must be accounted for at all times
Dave Coldren (SPAWAR) and James Weaver (ECPI) also helping
Curriculum will have minute modules:
PCDC Events (broken into 3 groups – Red team, Blue team, Forensics)
Computer Deconstruction (and Reconstruction)
Into to Cyber (modified from Cyber Camp)
One session in morning, another in the afternoon
ECPI looking at offering stipends to school reps/chaparones
Working on new logo – James Rajabi

16. Sponsorship – Contact AFCEA
Point of Contact:
Greg Blackburn, AFCEA PCDC Committee Chair

17. Saturday, April 8, 2017 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
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: SPAWARSYSCEN Atlantic ED and/or CO Capt Scott Heller
5:20 pm – 6:00 pm: Awards / Closing Ceremony

18. Sunday, April 9, 2017 Collegiate 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 – 8:15 am: Initial Injects / Secure the Network
8:15 am – 4:15 pm: Operate Network Under Hacker Attacks
4:15 pm - 4:30 pm: Red Team members visit Blue Teams
4:30 pm – 5:00 pm: Break/View Sponsor Booths
5:00 pm – 5:30 pm: Blue Team Presentations
5:30 pm – 5:45 pm: Red/Gold Team Debrief: Common Mistakes
5:45 pm – 6:10 pm: Keynote Speaker - James Ward?
6:10 pm – 6:35 pm: Awards / Closing Ceremony

19. Monday, April 10, 2017 Pro Day 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 – 7:50 am: Opening Ceremony
7:50 am – 4:30 pm: Operate Network Under Hacker Attacks
4:30 pm - 4:45 pm: Red Team members visit Blue Teams
4:45 pm – 5:00 pm: Break/View Sponsor Booths/Networking
5:00 pm – 5:40 pm Blue Team Briefs
5:40 pm – 5:55 pm: Red/Gold Team Debrief: Common Mistakes
5:55 pm – 6:15 pm: Keynote Speaker: Senator Tim Scott?
6:15 pm – 6:30 pm: Awards / Closing Ceremony

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

21. Thanks to our 2017 Corporate Sponsors!.

22. Thanks to our 2017 Corporate Sponsors

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

24. 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 ,
Payne, Ron, AFCEA Treasurer ,
Greg Blackburn, AFCEA PCDC Lead, Capt USN (Ret) ,
Tonya Davis, Trident Technical College ,
Marcy Hippey, AFCEA President ,
Dennis Wilson, SPAWAR, Blue Team Mentor Lead, High School Coordinator ,

25. Wrap Up
Big Ideas?
Innovations?
Questions?