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Palmetto Cyber Defense Competition 2019 Kick-Off Enterprise Meeting Wednesday 24 October 2018

This enterprise meeting marks the start of the Palmetto Cyber Defense Competition (PCDC) 2019. The goals of PCDC are to energize and develop the cybersecurity workforce, and recruit talented professionals. The competition is invitation-only for high schools and colleges, with mentoring and training provided by SSC Atlantic and corporate partners. The 7th Annual PCDC is tentatively scheduled for April 13-15, 2019.

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Palmetto Cyber Defense Competition 2019 Kick-Off Enterprise Meeting Wednesday 24 October 2018

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  1. Palmetto Cyber Defense Competition 2019 Kick-Off Enterprise Meeting Wednesday 24 October 2018 Jeff Sweeney PCDC Director Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic (SSC Atlantic) 59550 Information Systems Security Operations (USN) For PCDC Planning Purposes Only

  2. PCDC 2019 Dial-in: (877) 492-7811, Conf Code: 702.185.7391 PCDC VII is scheduled for Trident Technical College On 13/14/15 April 2019 171 Days till PCDC PCDC VII 13-15 April, 2019

  3. 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 Now & for the Future TStatement A: Approved for Public Release. Distribution is unlimited (8 June 2017).

  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 7th Annual PCDC is tentatively scheduled for 13-15 April 2019 TStatement A: Approved for Public Release. Distribution is unlimited (8 June 2017).

  5. 2018Participating High Schools Palmetto Scholars Academy – North Charleston – 1st place Porter Gaud- Charleston – 2nd place Home School Network 3rd place Qualified through CyberPatriot: Wando Ashley Ridge Stratford South Aiken SC Governor’s School for Science & Mathematics

  6. 2018 Participating Colleges Clemson – 1st Place College of Charleston – 2nd Place University of South Carolina - 3rd Place South Carolina State University Charleston Southern University Trident Technical College The Citadel ECPI University

  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: Ethical hacking 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 Other Enterprise Meetings: 28 Nov, & every 2 weeks starting 16 Jan TStatement A: Approved for Public Release. Distribution is unlimited (8 June 2017).

  8. PCDC 2018 Staff PCDC Facebook page is up and has 2018 pictures loaded PCDC website is currently under construction

  9. PCDC Gold Team 2019 • Have already procured several new switches and routers • Has been meeting monthly all year • Will be utilizing a smaller Nutanix server to avoid power problems • Separate Gold Teams for VMs and network infrastructure • Scenario: Palmetto Cyber Defense College. Will protect and operate Collegiate network • Already utilizing Microsoft Azure Cloud

  10. PCDC 2019 • Key SSC Atlantic personnel/positions for 2018: • Scott Bell: Deputy Director, Co-Gold Team Lead • Scarlette Reid: Deputy Director, Collegiate Coordinator – unless someone else steps up • Clarence Knight/Jason Husk/Scott Bell: Co-Gold Team Leads • PCDC logo mugs again? • Sponsor plaques to be continued • Leaning towards not doing PCDC polos for staff this year • Still have PCDC stickers. Magnets this year? • Badge ribbon add-ons extremely popular • PCDC logo prizes: wireless speakers ($15)? • Open to new ideas for swag, prizes • Changing challenge coins to white backing? • National Anthem: PaulatoriaJones will be invited back

  11. PCDC 2019 • Tentative VIP Speakers for 2019 • Andy Green – Kennesaw State Professor, Cybersecurity Expert • Katie Arrington – SC State Legislator, US Congressional Candidate • Ann Johnson – Microsoft CVP for Cybersecurity • Catering • Will continue staff catering, which saved us $$, need to ID lead • Could use portable frig • Tentative offer from Lowes to provide snacks & beverages – B. Miller • Pepsi or Coke offer? --Stephanie Schumaker? • For 2018, all three caterers received very good reviews: Moe’s, Home Team BBQ and Chick-Fil-A. Open to other suggestions. Captain Qu1rk PCDC Mascot

  12. PCDC 2019 • Will start 45 minutes later (0815) and end 30 minutes earlier each day • PCDC Flags ($45-$300) • Will continue gift certificates for teachers • Color for Tshirts – many blue teams want blue • Champions will get banner to hang up. • Augmented Reality, Applings Studios – will probably return

  13. Monday, April 15, 2019Pro Day Competition Schedule • 7:45 am – 8:15 am: Registration • 7:55: Team location drawing • 8:00 am – 8:10 am: Blue Teams Briefing • 8:15 am – 8:35 am: Opening Ceremony • 8:35 am – 3:15 pm: Operate Network Under Hacker Attacks • 3:15 pm - 3:30 pm Red Team members visit Blue Teams • 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm: Break/View Sponsor Booths/Networking • 4:00 pm – 4:30 pm: Blue Team Briefs • 4:30 pm – 4:45 pm Red/Gold Team Debrief: Common Mistakes • 4:45 pm – 5:05 pm: Keynote Speaker: • 5:05 pm – 5:20 pm:Awards / Closing Ceremony

  14. 2019 Assignments • Trophy Plate update: ? • Honor Guard (Mon only): N. Campbell? • Help with medals during closing ceremony: Scarlette Reid? • Checks for winners: AFCEA treasurer • Palmetto Calzone CIO: Andy Green • Help with breakdown: K.Smith (Young AFCEANs)? • Collegiate & Pro Q&A lead: S. Reid? • Help with transporting equipment on 13 April: K. Smith (Young AFCEANs) • Photography: Joe Bullinger • Blue team packets: James Burres? • Swag Bag stuff: M. Rehr-Matash? • Badges: Jennifer Greenwell? • Gold Team judges: Dale Messer, Ron Prine? • Registration: M. Rehr-Matash • Social Media: Stephanie Schumacher? • CitM PCDC Module:TBD, need 2-3 • National Anthem: Paulatoria Jones • Catering: M. Hippey? &/or ? • Dividers: TBD • Music:? • MCs: J. Sweeney & ? • Orange Team: J. Burres? • Injects/Business Tasks: A. Osti • Blue Packet/Initial PWs copies: Sri • Honor Guard: Nina Campbell • Press Release: M. Rehr-Matash • Scrolling Display: J. Sweeney • Scrolling pictures: J. Sweeney

  15. 2019 Palmetto Digital Forensics Competition (PDFC), 13 April PDFC Lead, Bill Littleton Tentatively planning for Collegiate and High School competitions Sat, 13 April Planning on 60 participants at each of 3 sites: Charleston, Norfolk & DC. VTC awards ceremony Pre-Registration required to guarantee slot, info on PCDC website & Facebook Reserved slots for students from high schools that finished in top 6-15 in CyberPatriot Again planning on teams of up to 3 students each 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. TStatement A: Approved for Public Release. Distribution is unlimited (8 June 2017).

  16. Cyber-In-The Middle – Karen Cooke, Lead • PCDC’s 2nd Annual Middle School Program was attended by almost 90 local middle school students on Day 1 of PCDC • CitM 2019 starting coordination meetings soon • 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 TStatement A: Approved for Public Release. Distribution is unlimited (8 June 2017).

  17. High Schools • Congrats 2018 Champions: Palmetto Scholars Academy! • Will continue to rotate mentors every two hours • 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 3 October. 137 middle and high school teams registered for 2018/2019 in South Carolina. 6,387 teams worldwide • Netlabs made available for training

  18. Collegiate Day • Will again utilize SECCDC Remote Virtual Qualifier • Will hold two Q&A Sessions in March. • Tentatively adding two more teams: • One team external to South Carolina. Order of offer: Naval Academy, Winner of 2018 Service Academy Cyber Defense Exercise (AF), Top finishers in 2018 SECCDC. • One two year school (Georgetown Horry Technical College?). If more than one, then must compete through SECCDC. Top 2 year school earns Tech School Challenge trophy. TTC will offer Tech School PCDC workshop (Tonya Davis/SPAWAR colab) • Resumes can be sent to AFCEA: Greg Blackburn: 410-507-6098, blackburn45@gmail.com or PCDC@afceacharleston.org • Congratulations, Clemson, 2018 PCDC Champions!

  19. 191919 Trident Tech College Center PCDC Floor Plan 19 PDFC PDFC SPONSORS

  20. Pro Day • Will again imbed 1 student from each College and 1 from TTC for each team • Returning Diamond teams get right of first refusal. Deadline TBD • Title Sponsor is still open • CSRA is now GDIT, SAIC, SRC tentatively committed • Will hold one Q&A session in March • Blue team briefs will remain • Will again allow 15 minutes before Red Team attacks

  21. PCDC 2019 Team Leads • Red (hackers)– Bryan Rhodes (843-218-5986) • White (judges) – Andrew Osti (843-218-4815) • Blue (mentors)/High School Coordinator – Dennis Wilson (843-218-6580) • Gold (network infrastructure)– Clarence Knight (843-218-2404)/Jason Husk (843-218-3616) • Cyber-in-the-Middle-Karen Cooke (843-218-6050) • Palmetto Digital Forensics Competition – Bill Littleton (843-218-3934), william.p.littleton@navy.mil

  22. Sponsorship (Monetary) – Contact AFCEA Point of Contact: Greg Blackburn, AFCEA PCDC Committee Chair E-mail: PCDC@afceacharleston.org TStatement A: Approved for Public Release. Distribution is unlimited (8 June 2017).

  23. New In-Kind Sponsorship Levels • $5K or more: Innovator • $2500: Partner • $1500 Donor • $750: Contributor • $500: Supporter .

  24. Thanks to our 2018 Corporate Sponsors!

  25. Thanks to our 2018 Corporate Sponsors

  26. Important Links • PCDC Website: pcdc-sc.com • PCDC Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/PalmettoCyberDefenseCompetition • PCDC Twitter:https://twitter.com/PalmettoCyber • Cyber Patriot: http://www.uscyberpatriot.org • AFCEA: http://charleston.afceachapter.org/ • #PCDC

  27. PCDC 2019 Primary POCs • Jeff Sweeney, SSC Atlantic, PCDC Director 843-218-4282, jeff.sweeney@navy.mil • Scarlette Reid, SSC Atlantic, Collegiate Coordinator, Deputy Director 843-218-4489, scarlette.reid@navy.mil • Scott Bell, SSC Atlantic, PCDC Gold Team Tech Co-Lead, Deputy Director 843-218-6241, scott.h.bell@navy.mil • Payne, Ron, AFCEA Treasurer 843-267-1782, ron.payne@csra.com • Greg Blackburn, AFCEA PCDC Lead, Capt USN (Ret) 410-507-6098, blackburng45@gmail.com • Tonya Davis, Trident Technical College 843-574-6951, tonya.davis@tridenttech.edu • Marcy Hippey, AFCEA President 843-412-6739, marcy.hippey@IMS-CHS.com • Dennis Wilson, SPAWAR, Blue Team Mentor Lead, High School Coordinator 843-218-6580, dennis.r.wilson@navy.mil

  28. Wrap Up • Big Ideas? • Innovations? • Questions?

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