Cyber Defense

The Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition is a blue team competition that gives students insight into what real-world attacks are like and how to defend against them. In CCDC, each team of eight must defend a company network against attacks from a professional red team and maintain the availability of services such as web sites, mail servers, and DNS.

Each team is given the same initial configuration, which typically includes an even mix of Linux and Windows machines. In addition to securing the initial network, competitors complete tasks such as setting up new services, performing vulnerability assessment, or providing documentation of company security policies.

Applied Cyber competes in the Western Region for CCDC, which organizes Invitational events in November and December, Qualifiers in February, and Regional Finals held in Anaheim in March or April. The top team from the Western Regional Finals advances to the National Finals, held in Texas in late April.

Who can participate?

The Invitational events are open to anyone and there is no limit on the number of people who can compete. The Invitationals take place in a virtualized environment and we compete from Stanford campus.

For all other events, up to 8 team members from the school roster may compete. The team roster can have up to 12 members and at most two of these can be graduate students.

Team Rosters and Accomplishments

2024

Roster: Kyla Guru (captain), Cody Ho, Joey Holtzman, Glen Husman, Donovan Jasper, Jeremy Kim, Aditya Saligrama, Kelechi Uhegbu, Paul Crews (alternate), Yasmine Mitchell (alternate), Brian Ni (alternate).

Placements:

  • 3rd place, WRCCDC Regional Finals, April 5-7, 2024.
  • 1st place, WRCCDC Qualifier, February 17, 2024.

2023

Roster: Kyla Guru, Cody Ho, Glen Husman, Donovan Jasper, Jeremy Kim, Aditya Saligrama, Andea Scott (captain), Kelechi Uhegbu, Yasmine Mitchell (alternate), Ben Tripp (alternate).

Placements:

  • 1st place (National Champions), National CCDC, April 28-30, 2023.
  • 1st place, WRCCDC Regional Finals, March 31-April 2, 2023.
  • 1st place, WRCCDC Qualifier, February 18, 2023.

2022

Roster: Cody Ho, Glen Husman, Pierce Lowary, Yasmine Mitchell, Aditya Saligrama, Andea Scott (captain), Kelechi Uhegbu, Eli Wald, Jeremy Kim (alternate).

Placements:

  • 3rd place, National CCDC, April 21-23, 2022.
  • 2nd place, National CCDC Panoply, April 23, 2022.
  • 1st place, WRCCDC Regional Finals, March 25-27, 2022.
  • 1st place, WRCCDC Qualifier, February 19, 2022.

2021

Roster: Raymond Hernandez, Cody Ho, Pierce Lowary, Yasmine Mitchell, Aditya Saligrama, Andea Scott (captain), Kelechi Uhegbu, Katie Watson.

Placements:

  • 2nd place, National CCDC Wildcard (Hivestorm), April 7, 2021.
  • 2nd place, WRCCDC Regional Finals, March 26-28, 2021.
  • 2nd place, WRCCDC Qualifier, February 6, 2021.

2020

Roster: William DeRocco, Raymond Hernandez, Glen Husman, Pierce Lowary, Antoni Rytel (captain), Andea Scott, Matthew Tan, Julia Thompson, Ashley Chen (alternate), Micah Murray (alternate).

Placements:

  • 3rd place, National CCDC, May 22-24, 2020.
  • 1st place, WRCCDC Regional Finals, March 20-22, 2020.
  • 1st place, WRCCDC Qualifier, January 25, 2020.

2019

Roster: Paul Crews, William DeRocco, Raymond Hernandez, Micah Murray, Pierce Lowary, Antoni Rytel (captain), Andea Scott, Matthew Tan, Andrew Fang (alternate), Lexi Kuppersmith (alternate), Juan Leis-Pretto (alternate), Joyce Xu (alternate).

Placements:

  • 6th place, National CCDC, April 23-25, 2019.
  • 1st place, WRCCDC Regional Finals, March 1-3, 2019.
  • 2nd place, WRCCDC Qualifier, February 16, 2019.
  • 2nd place, WRCCDC Invitational, January 26, 2019.

2018

Roster: Paul Crews, Colleen Dai, Travis Lanham, Albert Liang, Ali Malik, Wilson Nguyen, Antoni Rytel, Kate Stowell (captain), Matthew Tan, Kartik Chandra (alternate), Richard Chen (alternate), Robert Fernandez (alternate).

Placements:

  • 5th place, WRCCDC Regional Finals, March 23-25, 2018.
    • 1st place in Business Injects
  • 2nd place, WRCCDC Qualifier, January 29, 2018.

2017

Roster: Paul Crews, Brad Girardeau, Travis Lanham, Albert Liang, Mike Precup, Priyanka Sekhar, Kate Stowell (captain), Arthur Tsang, Colleen Dai (alternate), Caleb Kumar (alternate), Ali Malik (alternate), Wilson Nguyen (alternate).

Placements:

  • 2nd place, WRCCDC Regional Finals, March 24-26, 2017.
  • 2nd place, WRCCDC Qualifier, January 28, 2017.
  • 1st place, WRCCDC Invitational, November 12, 2016.

2016

Roster: Paul Crews, Caleb Kumar, Albert Liang, Travis Lanham, Brad Girardeau, Mike Precup, Kate Stowell (captain), Priyanka Sekhar, Nick Hershey (alternate).

Placements:

  • 4th place, WRCCDC Regional Finals, March 18-20, 2016.
  • 2nd place in Business Operations, WRCCDC Invitational, January 9, 2016.

Alex Keller has coached the team since its inception in 2016.