The Cyber Defense Organization is excited to host our Great Dane Defense Competition (GDDC) this semester! This practical cyber defense competition welcomes competitors with any cyber experience! 

You will be placed on a team of 5 competitors, working injects (hands-on tasks) while also battling against our combined student/professional adversarial red team. 

This semester's competition theme is related to Hospitals and the medical industry, a fast-growing ransomware and cyber-attack target. Competitors will assume the role of security analysts within a medical facility, taking over from a previous team that didn't emphasize best practices. This has resulted in a multitude of risks associated with their network environment, allowing threat actors to exploit vulnerable application services. Competitors will be able to gain experience triaging and responding to active security incidents occurring in the network while working in a collaborative team environment.