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2009 MACCDC

2009 MACCDC Scenario

2009 Technologies and Systems

Working as IT staff for the fictitious company, TrainerCorp., the student teams assumed operational responsibility of a network that included:

  • SCADA-controlled systems (purpose-built especially for the competition)
  • VoIP/GSM-integrated system with two IP phones and one team captain cell phone
  • Thirteen physical systems running the following: Windows Server 2008 (Active Directory with 10,000 user accounts and Primary DNS), Windows Server 2003 (Exchange with 10,000 paired mailboxes), Windows 2000 Server (Legacy telnet server), Windows Vista (user desktops), Debian 4.0 (Team Dashboard), Fedora Core 7 (Nagios) and 10 (Moodle Server and Moodle DB), Red Hat 7.2 (Secondary DNS),
  • FreeBSD 6.2 (FreeNAS) and CentOS 4.3 (Asterisk)
  • Cisco ASA 5505 firewall, 2801 router, and 2950 switch

Hackers

In addition to keeping the TrainerCorp. network running, the student teams had to protect their networks from some of the best hackers: Seth Fogie, Rob Fuller (AKA mubix), Paul Asadoorian (AKA PaulDotCom), Brad Bowers, Brian Carty, Omar Fink, Seth Fogie, Rob Fuller, Russell Handorf, Scott Hazel, Ken Johnson, Michael LaSalvia, Jack Mannino, David Parillo, Jerry Shenk, and Josh Tornetta.

MACCDC 2009

Location:
Baltimore, MD

Date:
March 27-29, 2009

2009 Competition Video

Hunt Valley, MD (Damon’s). Scenario: TrainerCorp, leading provider of online courseware/training materials. Virtualized the Qualifying Round. CEO component added. Univ. of Pittsburgh won.

2009 Teams

Regional Final Team Standings
  1. University of Pittsburgh
  2. George Washington University
  3. James Madison University
  4. Community College of Baltimore County
2009 Qualifying Round Teams
  • Anne Arundel Community College
  • Community College of Baltimore County
  • George Mason University
  • George Washington University
  • James Madison University
  • Millersville University
  • Towson University
  • University of Pittsburgh

Sponsors & Supporters

National Science Foundation CyberWATCH Center White Wolf Security:
  • Tim Rosenberg
  • Dwight Hobbs
  • Joe DeCree
Volunteers:
  • Kerry McKay – George Washington University
  • Michael Dougherty – Bogdan Computer Services, Inc.
  • Becki Dorffner – Community College of Baltimore County
  • Jeff Yates – Community College of Baltimore County
Student Teams and Faculty from:
  • Anne Arundel Community College
  • Community College of Baltimore County
  • George Mason University
  • George Washington University
  • James Madison University
  • Millersville University
  • Towson University
  • University of Pittsburgh