1. Palmetto Cyber Defense Competition 2018 Kick-Off Enterprise Meeting
25 October 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 2018 PCDC is scheduled for Trident Technical College
Dial-in: (877) , Conf Code:
PCDC is scheduled for
Trident Technical College
On 14/15/16 April 2018

3. Energizing and Developing our Cybersecurity Workforce for the Future
PCDC Goals
SSC Atlantic, the Navy’s East Coast Engineering Center, in collaboration with the South Carolina Lowcountry Chapter of the Armed Forces Communications Electronics Association (AFCEA) facilitates a cyber defense competition each spring. The goals are to:
Energize high schools, colleges, and their students to focus on the development of technical skills in the area of networking and cyber security that will help in preparation for exciting careers in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM).
Workforce Development: SSC Atlantic and our corporate partners collaborate and mentor in the areas of Red Teaming, Computer Network Defense, Cybersecurity & Network Development
Recruitment: SSC Atlantic and our corporate partners have been able to hire some of South Carolina’s best and brightest new professionals through PCDC
Energizing and Developing our Cybersecurity Workforce for the Future
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4. PCDC- 3 Days, Invitation Only
High Schools (Saturday)
Qualifying: Top 3 from previous year or top 5 in state in CyberPatriot
Mentoring on Cybersecurity, Networking, Operating Systems, Risk Mitigation, etc provided by teams of SSC Atlantic and corporate mentors working together
Continuing to increase training resources available to schools/mentors
90 minutes to secure network before hackers attack
Colleges (Sunday)
Qualifying: Top 3 from previous year or top 5 from SECCDC, reserve one slot for host and one for HBC
Q&A sessions provided
30 minutes to secure network before hackers attack
Pro Day (Monday)
Mixture of DoD and industry partner teams ($5K Diamond Sponsor)
Q&A sessions provided
15 minutes before hackers attack
Two college students embedded on each team – has resulted in multiple hires
The 6th Annual PCDC is tentatively scheduled for April 2018
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5. 2017 Participating Schools
High School – Saturday, 8 April
Collegiate – Sunday, 9 April
Porter Gaud- Charleston-1st
College of Charleston – 1st
Palmetto Scholars Academy – 2nd North Charleston - 1st place 2016
Clemson – 2nd
South Aiken - 3rd
Charleston Southern University- 3rd
Trident Technical College
Blythewood
Claflin University – 1st time qualifier
Wando – Mt. Pleasant
Stratford –Goose Creek, 3rd place 2016
ECPI University
South Carolina –2st place 2016
Home School Network
The Citadel – 3rd place 2016
Ashley Ridge – Summerville
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6. 2017 Pro Day Participants
Corporate
Government
NCDOC

7. Event Staff Teams (Gov’t, Corp partners & military)
Gold Team: competition officials that develop, run, and manage the competition scenario, network and architecture. Includes keeping the network running, developing injects, updating the scoring engine
Red Team: penetration testing professionals simulating external hackers attempting to gain unauthorized access to competition teams’ systems. Authorized to perform social engineering and offer deals. May imbed Trojan horses.
Blue Teams: These are the competing teams. They will need to display skills in the following areas: Technical skills, Teamwork, Communication, Crisis management, Leadership, Time management.
Mentors: Provide training to high school students for 10 weeks prior to the event in areas of Risk Mitigation, Networking, System Administration, Forensics, Firewall/Switches/Routers, Virtualization, etc. One SSC Atlantic mentor is assigned to each high school team during the competition to provide hands-off guidance
White team Judges: Monitor teams and enforce rules compliance
Gold Team Judges: Score injects and track overall scoring
Approximately 100 volunteers donate their time
Enterprise Meetings: one in Nov, one in Dec & every 2 weeks starting in Jan
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8. PCDC 2018
New key SSC Atlantic personnel/positions for 2018:
Scott Bell: Deputy Director, Co-Gold Team Lead
Scarlette Reid: Deputy Director, Collegiate Coordinator
Clarence Knight: Co-Gold Team Lead
New for 2017 that will be kept for 2018: Mugs & Sponsor plaques
New this year: PCDC polos for staff and sponsors
Other ideas: PCDC stickers/magnets, wireless ($15)/wired speakers ($11)?
Open to new ideas for swag, prizes
Close to bringing several 2017 participants on board SSC Atlantic
Programmable Drone competition may be the “Bridge to Far”
Augmented Reality
Updated MOA and Roles & Responsibilities drafted between AFCEA and SPAWAR
National Anthem: Paulatoria Jones will be invited back- she gave me goose bumps

9. PCDC 2018
Gold Team
Looking at several options to upgrade network hardware to avoid problem encountered with solid state drives last year.
Scenario may include Pizza ordering (website, phone, ) & data breach
Expanded Orange team (four?) – volunteer opportunities
Considering Hybrid network architecture including Cloud (AWS) and on-site components
High Schools get 90 min, Colleges get 30 min and Pros get 15 min before attacked

10. PCDC 2018 James Ward (SRC) and Chris O’Rourke did a great job as VIP
speakers. We are currently soliciting offers for 2018 VIP speakers for Sunday and Monday.
Catering
Will continue staff catering, which saved us significant money, but need to identify lead to coordinate. Lot of effort
For 2017 all three caterers received very good reviews: Moe’s, Home Team BBQ and La Nortena. Open to other suggestions or can look into repeating.
May need portable frig for 2018
Captain Qu1rk
PCDC Mascot

11. 2018 Palmetto Digital Forensics Competition (PDFC), 14 April
Objective:
Solve as many forensic scenarios as possible within the allotted time and accumulate the most points possible
Participants were provided access to forensic scenario exercises ranging in difficulty. Each exercise required 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.
Started in 2016, expanded to 2 divisions in 2017: High School and Collegiate/Pro
Pre-Registration required to guarantee slot, info on PCDC website & Facebook
PDFC Lead, Bill Littleton received NISE approval to expand the competition beyond PCDC
Over 50 participants in Reserved slots for students from schools that finished in top 5-10 in CyberPatriot. Looking to offer slots to the top in 2018.
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12. Cyber-In-The Middle – Karen Cooke, Lead
PCDC’s Inaugural Middle School Program attended by almost 90 local middle school students on Day 1 of PCDC
Some looking to increase the number of students for 2018, but more could be too many
Influencing 7th & 8th graders before they decide on high school track
Curriculum had three - 45 minute modules:
PCDC Events (Red team, Blue team, Forensics)
Computer Deconstruction (and Reconstruction)
Into to Cyber (modified from Cyber Camp)
One session in morning (9-1200) and another in the afternoon (1-4 PM)
Huge success, students were very enthusiastic, asking lots of questions
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13. High Schools Congrats Champions Porter Gaud!
New rule to rotate mentors every two hours will be kept. It was well received by the students
Looking to increase quantity of Blue Team mentors that go out to schools starting in Feb for at least 1.5 hours/week. Can by gov’t or contractor, must have background check. Mentoring starts in early February
CyberPatriot registration closed on 8 October middle and high school teams registered this year compared to 100 last year.
Netlabs made available for training

14. Collegiate Day Will again utilize SECCDC Remote Virtual Qualifier
Will hold two Q&A Sessions in March.
Looking at Horry Georgetown Tech College, Lander and Coastal Carolina to enter qualifier for first time
Resumes can be sent to AFCEA: Greg Blackburn: , or
Congratulations, Clemson Tigers Football Team, National Champions!
Congratulations, College of Charleston, 2017 PCDC Champions!

15. Pro Day
Will again imbed 1 student from each College and 1 from TTC for each team
Looking to add additional government team for 2018
Returning Diamond teams get right of first refusal. Deadline TBD.
CSRA looking to threepeat? Never been done after two chances at HS and Collegiate levels
Will hold one Q&A session in March
Blue team briefs will remain
Will again allow 15 minutes before Red Team attacks

16. 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)– Clarence Knight ( )
Cyber-in-the-Middle-Karen Cooke ( )
Palmetto Digital Forensics Competition – Bill Littleton
( ),

17. Sponsorship – Contact AFCEA
Point of Contact: Greg Blackburn, AFCEA PCDC Committee Chair
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18. Thanks to our 2017 Corporate Sponsors!.

19. Thanks to our 2017 Corporate Sponsors

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

21. PCDC 2018 Primary POCs Jeff Sweeney, SSC Atlantic, PCDC Director,
Scarlette Reid, SSC Atlantic, Collegiate Coordinator, Deputy Director ,
Scott Bell, SSC Atlantic, PCDC Gold Team Tech Co-Lead, Deputy Director ,
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 ,

22. Wrap Up
Big Ideas?
Innovations?
Questions?