GAMIFIED CYBER CHALLEnGE EXPERIENCE MADE POSSIBLE BY TARGET

Build your portfolio, pump up your resume, add credibility to your LinkedIn profile, gain simulated real-world experience, and speak to the world of cybersecurity based on your National Cyber League (NCL) virtual competition/game experience!

WiCyS is pleased to announce a partnership with Target and International Consortium of Minority Cybersecurity Professionals (ICMCP) to bring this gamified cyber challenge experience to the WiCyS student community and beyond!

This competition/game allows WiCyS and ICMCP student players to showcase and build their skills through simulated real-world scenarios. After the game, players will receive an NCL scouting report that identifies player’s strengths/weaknesses. WiCyS and ICMCP members can then share scores on resumes and LinkedIn to showcase growth, progress, determination, grit, and glory!

The NCL model of learn to play; play to learn makes it easy for newbies and advanced players to gain the most out of their experience. The modules include:

• Open Source Intelligence: Utilize publicly available information such as search engines, public repositories, social media, and more to gain in-depth knowledge on a topic or target

• Cryptography: Identify techniques used to encrypt or obfuscate messages and leverage tools to extract the plain text

• Scanning: Identify and use the proper tools to gain intelligence about a target including its services and potential vulnerabilities

• Log Analysis: Utilize the proper tools and techniques to establish a baseline for normal operation and identify malicious activities using logs from various services

• Network Traffic Analysis: Identify malicious and benign network traffic to demonstrate an understanding of potential security breaches

• Password Cracking: Identify types of password hashes and apply various techniques to efficiently determine plain text passwords

• Forensics: Identify critical pieces of evidence for unearthing the adversary or determining exactly what was stolen in an incident.

• Web Application Exploitation: Identify actionable exploits and vulnerabilities and use them to bypass the security measures in online services

• Enumeration and Exploitation: Identify actionable exploits and vulnerabilities and use them to bypass the security measures in code and compiled binaries

To learn more about NCL, go here: nationalcyberleague.org

Timeline:

• January 25: WiCyS/ICMCP Gamified Cyber Challenge Experience application opens

• February 16: WiCyS/ICMCP Gamified Cyber Challenge Experience application closes

• February 19: Acceptance letters + commitment form

• February 22: WiCyS/ICMCP recipients gain access to NCL training gym and private discussion board

• March 15 – 22: NCL Preseason

• March 26 – 28: NCL Individual Game

• April 9 -11: NCL Team Game

• April 30: WiCyS 2021 Scholarship Recipients Announced

• May 28: NCL competition/game closes and season ends

View the Gamified Cyber Challenge Press Release HERE