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The University of North Texas is proud to host the 2007 Southwest Regional Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition. Here's how the contest works: Student teams (up to 8 full-time students) will be given pre-configured, running systems, networked into the contest infrastructure. These system supply a set of services to the network, and the goals for each team are to:

• Complete various business/technical tasks ("injects") which are given to the teams during the contest
• Keep the services running and available
• Keep attackers out -- a "red team" of attackers will be trying to cause trouble throughout the contest

The winner of this regional contest will receive an invitation to compete in the national contest, to be held April 13-15 in San Antonio, Texas.

Event Objectives:

• Provide an educational venue in which students are able to apply the theory and skills they have learned in their course work;
• Foster a spirit of teamwork, ethical behavior, and effective communication both within and across teams;
• Build a meaningful mechanism by which institutions of higher education may evaluate their programs.
• Open a dialog and awareness among participating institutions and students.
• Have fun!

Mission: The Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (CCDC) provides institutions with an information assurance or computer security curriculum a controlled competitive environment to assess their student's depth of understanding and operational competency in managing the challenges inherent in protecting an enterprise network infrastructure and business information systems.

The 2007 Southwest Regional CCDC is supported by the UNT College of Engineering and the Center for Information and Computer Security.