The 2013 NECCDC – Lessons Learned
G. Markowsky, D. Johnson, A. Moody, R. Soucy, and W. Stackpole, The 2013 NECCDC – Lessons Learned, Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Security & Management, pp. 433 -439 http://sam.udmercy.edu/sam13/index.html, 2013.
Abstract:
After having run the 2010 NECCDC at the University of Maine, we had an opportunity to run the 2013 NECCDC at the University of Maine. In the process, we rediscovered some lessons we had learned the first time along with a number of new lessons. We feel that the NECCDC and similar cyber defense competitions are very important for motivating students and for bringing the academic cyber defense community together. We are committed to making sure that the competitions are well supported and continue to improve. We also realized that our past system of basically having each hosting institution essentially build the competition from scratch does not contribute to keeping the competition of high quality and improving. This article serves as a how-to for staging the NECCDC or a similar competition.