Cyber Defense

A team of three UCF graduate students thwarted cyberattacks on a fictional airport as part of an international cybersecurity competition, besting eight other teams to take top honors. Jeffrey DiVincent, Cameron Whitehead and Caitlin Whitehead came away with a first-place finish at the Aviation ISAC Student Cyber Challenge at the A-ISAC International Conference in Dublin,…

  A team of four UCF students won the 2023 AFCEA Augusta TechNet International Military and Collegiate CTF Competition. Thirty-five teams from eight countries competed in the 4-hour-long competition hosted by the Georgia Cyber Center. Twenty-seven of the teams represented elite military cyber units from the United States and seven other countries.  UCF’s team —…

  Congratulations to Cameron Whitehead for placing 1st in the 2023 DOE Conquer-the-Hill Reign Edition competition.  Cameron is a graduate student in the Master of Science in Digital Forensics program.  Earlier this year, Cameron won the 2023 DOE Conquer-the-Hill Adventurer Edition competition. Cameron also won the 2022 Reign competition and was a member of the Hack@UCF team…

The UCF Collegiate Cybersecurity Competition Team finished the Spring semester on May 5th with a 2nd Place finish in the Spring International Cyber League Collegiate Cup.

Amanda Theel, Director for the Department of Energy’s CyberForce Competition, visited UCF and toured the Lockheed Martin Cyber Innovation Lab on April 18th.

Congratulations to Cameron Whitehead (MS-DF) for finishing in 1st Place and to Caitlin Whitehead (MS-DF) for finishing in 3rd Place in the 2023 Conquer the Hill: Adventurer Competition on April 15th.

Congratulations to the UCF Collegiate Cybersecurity Competition Team and their coach, Dr. Tom Nedorost for winning the 2023 Information Security Talent Search Competition.

UCF Captures 3rd Place in Global Pen Testing Competition January 23, 2023 The C3 Team finished in 3rd Place in the Global Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition sponsored by IBM and held at RIT’s Global Cybersecurity Institute.   Each team took on the role of a small Penetration Testing company on a penetration testing engagement for a…

Congratulations to the UCF Collegiate Cybersecurity Competition Team and coaches for winning the 2022 WRCCDC Invitational on Saturday, December 3rd.

Congratulations to the UCF Collegiate Cybersecurity Competition Team and coaches Tom Nedorost and Martin Roberts for winning the Southeast Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition hosted by Augusta University at the Georgia Cyber Center on November 19-20th.