CyberDawgs Advance to MDC3 Finals

UMBC’s intercollegiate Cyber Defense Team (the “CyberDawgs”) once again will be competing in the finals of the Maryland Cyber Challenge (MDC3) taking place on October 9th at the CyberMaryland 2013 conference in Baltimore. All three of UMBC’s teams are in the finals!

Competing against the three CyberDawgs teams will be two teams from UMUC, two from Towson, and one from Indiana Tech.

During the finals, teams will compete in a Capture-The-Flag/King-of-The-Hill hybrid event where they must attempt to gain (and maintain) control of other systems on the network – which are also being targetted by other teams seeking to gain and ‘own’ them as well.

Each member of the first place team will receive a $5,000 cash prize. and members of the second place team each receive $2,000. For the third consecutive year, cash prizes for the students are provided by the National Security Agency in the hopes of furthering students’ cybersecurity education and professional training. (UMBC is a co-founder of MDC3.)

CSEE faculty Richard Forno and Charles Nicholas serve as faculty advisors to the team.