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NPS Cyber News and Events (selected items)
Invited talk: Vulnerability Equities Process, Neal Ziring, NSA, 30 Aug 2022, 1200-1300
NPS redesigned as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense (NCAE-CD), July 2022
NPS Joins USCYBERCOM Academic Engagement Network
NPS Launches “Cyberspace and Military Operations” Course Open to all Students
NPS Cybersecurity Expert Explores ‘Weapons of Mass Disruption’ in New Book
Internet Pioneer Vint Cerf Shares Insights with NPS
SFS Grad Turns Opportunity into Award-Winning Research
NPS Cyber Graduate Detects Active Vulnerability Through His Thesis Research
Students Break-In New Cyber Battle Lab
There are more stories in the NPS article repository.
Cyber Competitions
Winter Quarter 2022
Hack-the-Port
Focus: technical cybersecurity
Team competitions.
Team Registration by 22 Feb 2022. Done! The NPS away team has been registered.
Latest news: NPS Team is an official participant!
Contact the NPS Cyber Club if you are interested in playing on the at home team.
For an overview of maritime cybersecurity incidents, see A Retrospective Analysis of Maritime Cyber Security Incidents
Fall Quarter 2021-2022
National Cyber League (ended)
Focus: technical cybersecurity
Individual and team competitions.
Register at NCL by 08 October 2021
NUARI Decide (ended)
Focus: "C-Suite" cybersecurity decision making.
Training sessions: Tues, 2 Nov 2021 11-12 AM PDT or Thurs, 4 Nov 2020, 5-6 PM PDT
Exercise: Sat 6 Nov 2021, 11-3 PDT.
Work with NPS faculty to organize teams
President's Cup Finals (ended)
Focus: technical cybersecurity
After two fierce rounds, the 10 best individuals from each track, Track A and Track B, and the top 5 teams will compete to be called the best federal cybersecurity professionals.
Finals Preview: December 2nd 2021
Teams Finals Livestream: December 9th 2021
Both will be broadcast from cisa.gov/live.
Recordings will be available on CISA's YouTube Channel.
Recent Government Cyber Documents
DON Cyberspace Superiority Vision, October 2022
Memorandum on Improving the Cybersecurity of National Security, Department of Defense, and Intelligence Community Systems 19 Jan 2022
The White House also published a Fact Sheet on this memorandum 19 Jan 2022
Readout: White House Meeting on Software Security 13 Jan 2022
National Security Memorandum on Improving Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructure Control Systems 28 Jul 2021
Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity 12 May 2021
Cyberspace Solarium Commission Final Report 11 March 2020
CAE Tech Talks & Forums
20 January 2022
Time: 1:00 - 1:50 pm EST
Topic: IDS performance in constrained environments
Location: https://captechu.zoom.us/j/664120328
Time: 2:00 – 2:50 pm EST
Topic: Security Protection and Quality Control in Crowdsourcing
Location: https://captechu.zoom.us/j/664120328
We changed our name
Once known as the Center for Information Systems Security Studies and Research (CISR), the center's work has increasingly involved cyber operations. To reflect this, our name was changed to the Center for Cybersecurity and Cyber Operations (C3O) in late 2017.