October Cyber Quest Events
Week of October 16th, 2023
NACRA Cyber Quest Fall 2023:
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During the week of October 16th 2023, the North American Cyber Range Alliance (NACRA) is offering a series of hands-on interactive cybersecurity workshops AT NO COST. The intent is to expose those interested in cybersecurity careers and those with experience in the field to the professional challenges that nation state and criminal adversaries present to those protecting our nation.
Everyone is eligible to participate, including those in high schools, higher education, business/public professional practitioners, invited guests and the community. These interactive workshops are made possible without cost through the generosity of 'Participating NACRA Organizations', and NACRA's 'Preferred Range Partners'.
Participants are expected to abide by ethical and professional standards similar to those required of any professional workplace.
Monday, 10/16 Cogent Workshop Instructions will be sent out [Cogent events]
Important Note about Cogent Events:
On Monday10/16 instructions will be sent out to valid email addresses. Event access starts at 9:00am Tuesday 10/17
Hundreds of $’s in Amazon eGift Cards awarded to Top 5 Players for Level 2 only (Pivot or Punt!)
See below for details.
Tuesday, 10/17 Workshop - 48 hours of access* starts 9:00am [Virtual]
Cyber Smack Down! Instructional Training on a real-world Attack
(Workshop - Level 1)
SKILL LEVEL – Beginner and Intermediate
Training: This is a workshop for those with a little, or a lot of cyber lab, and open source tools or range experience. Goal = Knock down the active attack. Be ready for some challenging twists. Don't worry, this defender workshop has plenty of HINTS. You are guaranteed to finish and to learn new tools and tactics.
Who should attend: Those who have been on labs and cyber ranges with good basic skills of 5 Phases of ethical hacking using recon, password cracking, running kali linux or similar hacking OS with all the tools. Participants may be a team or single participant.
*48 Hours: Participant's chosen sign-up date will begin the 48 hours of access to complete the Blue Team defense scenario. Live Support via MS-Teams begins each day at 10:00am and ends each day at 5:00pm PST.
[Oct 17-21 Available - Register for 1 Day Only]
Tuesday, 10/17 Competition - 24 Hours* [Virtual]
Pivot or Punt! You Must Stop the Attack (Advanced CTF) Competition
(Level 2)
SKILL LEVEL – Intermediate to Advanced
Competition: How good are you? Find out over 5 days of access to this Red Team CTF. Who will get the prize and brag rights? If you think only a CEH is your ticket, get some hands-on practice or go with the Cyber Smack Down Workshop instead. Or give it whirl and identify areas to work on. No help or hints provided here. Scoring is based on highest points and fastest time to remediate attacks.
Who should attend: This event is for those who eat and sleep cyber offense and defense - seasoned cyber defenders, pentesters and system incident responders (intermediate to advanced cyber skills). Participants may be a team or single participant.
*24 Hours per Day for 5 days: the event starts 9am Tues 10/17 and runs through 9pm Sat 10/21
[Oct 17-21 Available - Register for 1 Day]
Tuesday, 10/17 CISCO Workshop 9:00am - 3:00pm PST [Virtual]
Security Capture the Flag
SKILL LEVEL – Those with the basic understanding of cyber security practices and tools.
Join us for a virtual Capture the Flag event where you’ll have the chance to work through both Red Team and Blue Team objectives in a race for high score and best time. Learn to leverage open-source intelligence tools to gather information about suspected intruders, work to penetrate the DMZ of a target enterprise network and simulate an attempt to hack the endpoint of a CxO to experience the cyber kill chain phases of reconnaissance, weaponization, delivery, exploitation, and techniques like social engineering, phishing, etc.
[Oct 17 only]
Wednesday, 10/18 Workshop - 48 hours of access* [Virtual]
Cyber Smack Down! Instructional Training on a real-world Attack
(Workshop - Level 1)
SKILL LEVEL – Beginner and Intermediate
Training: This is a workshop for those with a little, or a lot of cyber lab, and open source tools or range experience. Goal = Knock down the active attack. Be ready for some challenging twists. Don't worry, this defender workshop has plenty of HINTS. You are guaranteed to finish and to learn new tools and tactics.
Who should attend: Those who have been on labs and cyber ranges with good basic skills of 5 Phases of ethical hacking using recon, password cracking, running kali linux or similar hacking OS with all the tools. Participants may be a team or single participant.
*48 Hours: Participant's chosen sign-up date will begin the 48 hours of access to complete the Blue Team defense scenario. Live Support via MS-Teams begins each day at 10:00am and ends each day at 5:00pm PST.
[Oct 17-21 Available - Register for 1 Day Only]
Wednesday, 10/18 Competition - 24 Hours* [Virtual]
Pivot or Punt! You Must Stop the Attack (Advanced CTF) Competition
(Level 2)
SKILL LEVEL – Intermediate to Advanced
Competition: How good are you? Find out over 5 days of access to this Red Team CTF. Who will get the prize and brag rights? If you think only a CEH is your ticket, get some hands-on practice or go with the Cyber Smack Down Workshop instead. Or give it whirl and identify areas to work on. No help or hints provided here. Scoring is based on highest points and fastest time to remediate attacks.
Who should attend: This event is for those who eat and sleep cyber offense and defense - seasoned cyber defenders, pentesters and system incident responders (intermediate to advanced cyber skills). Participants may be a team or single participant.
*24 Hours per Day for 5 days: the event starts 9am Tues 10/17 and runs through 9pm Sat 10/21
[Oct 17-21 Available - Register for 1 Day]
Thursday, 10/19 Workshop - 48 hours of access* [Virtual]
Cyber Smack Down! Instructional Training on a real-world Attack
(Workshop - Level 1)
SKILL LEVEL – Beginner and Intermediate
Training: This is a workshop for those with a little, or a lot of cyber lab, and open source tools or range experience. Goal = Knock down the active attack. Be ready for some challenging twists. Don't worry, this defender workshop has plenty of HINTS. You are guaranteed to finish and to learn new tools and tactics.
Who should attend: Those who have been on labs and cyber ranges with good basic skills of 5 Phases of ethical hacking using recon, password cracking, running kali linux or similar hacking OS with all the tools. Participants may be a team or single participant.
*48 Hours: Participant's chosen sign-up date will begin the 48 hours of access to complete the Blue Team defense scenario. Live Support via MS-Teams begins each day at 10:00am and ends each day at 5:00pm PST.
[Oct 17-21 Available - Register for 1 Day Only]
Thursday, 10/19 Competition - 24 Hours* [Virtual]
Pivot or Punt! You Must Stop the Attack (Advanced CTF) Competition
(Level 2)
SKILL LEVEL – Intermediate to Advanced
Competition: How good are you? Find out over 5 days of access to this Red Team CTF. Who will get the prize and brag rights? If you think only a CEH is your ticket, get some hands-on practice or go with the Cyber Smack Down Workshop instead. Or give it whirl and identify areas to work on. No help or hints provided here. Scoring is based on highest points and fastest time to remediate attacks.
Who should attend: This event is for those who eat and sleep cyber offense and defense - seasoned cyber defenders, pentesters and system incident responders (intermediate to advanced cyber skills). Participants may be a team or single participant.
*24 Hours per Day for 5 days: the event starts 9am Tues 10/17 and runs through 9pm Sat 10/21
[Oct 17-21 Available - Register for 1 Day]
Thursday, 10/19 CISCO Workshop 9:00am - 3:00pm PST [Virtual]
Cyber Resilience Workshop
SKILL LEVEL – Beginner and Intermediate: Those with the basic understanding of cyber security practices and tools.
The Cyber Resilience Workshop (CRW) has been built based on the Cisco Security Integrated Threat Defense (ITD) architecture and solutions. Students will experience life-like cybersecurity situations in a virtualized lab environment, where they play both roles of attacker and defender. Utilizing an environment that models after enterprise networks, students will learn how their environments get compromised, security breaches get detected, and how to respond with maximum effectiveness.
[Oct 19 only]
Friday, 10/20 Workshop - 48 hours of access* [Virtual]
Cyber Smack Down! Instructional Training on a real-world Attack
(Workshop - Level 1)
SKILL LEVEL – Beginner and Intermediate
Training: This is a workshop for those with a little, or a lot of cyber lab, and open source tools or range experience. Goal = Knock down the active attack. Be ready for some challenging twists. Don't worry, this defender workshop has plenty of HINTS. You are guaranteed to finish and to learn new tools and tactics.
Who should attend: Those who have been on labs and cyber ranges with good basic skills of 5 Phases of ethical hacking using recon, password cracking, running kali linux or similar hacking OS with all the tools. Participants may be a team or single participant.
*48 Hours: Participant's chosen sign-up date will begin the 48 hours of access to complete the Blue Team defense scenario. Live Support via MS-Teams begins each day at 10:00am and ends each day at 5:00pm PST.
[Oct 17-21 Available - Register for 1 Day Only]
Friday, 10/20 Competition - 24 Hours* [Virtual]
Pivot or Punt! You Must Stop the Attack (Advanced CTF) Competition
(Level 2)
SKILL LEVEL – Intermediate to Advanced
Competition: How good are you? Find out over 5 days of access to this Red Team CTF. Who will get the prize and brag rights? If you think only a CEH is your ticket, get some hands-on practice or go with the Cyber Smack Down Workshop instead. Or give it whirl and identify areas to work on. No help or hints provided here. Scoring is based on highest points and fastest time to remediate attacks.
Who should attend: This event is for those who eat and sleep cyber offense and defense - seasoned cyber defenders, pentesters and system incident responders (intermediate to advanced cyber skills). Participants may be a team or single participant.
*24 Hours per Day for 5 days: the event starts 9am Tues 10/17 and runs through 9pm Sat 10/21
[Oct 17-21 Available - Register for 1 Day]
Saturday, 10/21 Workshop - 48 hours of access* [Virtual]
Cyber Smack Down! Instructional Training on a real-world Attack
(Workshop - Level 1)
SKILL LEVEL – Beginner and Intermediate
Training: This is a workshop for those with a little, or a lot of cyber lab, and open source tools or range experience. Goal = Knock down the active attack. Be ready for some challenging twists. Don't worry, this defender workshop has plenty of HINTS. You are guaranteed to finish and to learn new tools and tactics.
Who should attend: Those who have been on labs and cyber ranges with good basic skills of 5 Phases of ethical hacking using recon, password cracking, running kali linux or similar hacking OS with all the tools. Participants may be a team or single participant.
*48 Hours: Participant's chosen sign-up date will begin the 48 hours of access to complete the Blue Team defense scenario. Live Support via MS-Teams begins each day at 10:00am and ends each day at 5:00pm PST.
[Oct 17-21 Available - Register for 1 Day Only]
Saturday, 10/21 Competition - 24 Hours* [Virtual]
Pivot or Punt! You Must Stop the Attack (Advanced CTF) Competition
(Level 2)
SKILL LEVEL – Intermediate to Advanced
Competition: How good are you? Find out over 5 days of access to this Red Team CTF. Who will get the prize and brag rights? If you think only a CEH is your ticket, get some hands-on practice or go with the Cyber Smack Down Workshop instead. Or give it whirl and identify areas to work on. No help or hints provided here. Scoring is based on highest points and fastest time to remediate attacks.
Who should attend: This event is for those who eat and sleep cyber offense and defense - seasoned cyber defenders, pentesters and system incident responders (intermediate to advanced cyber skills). Participants may be a team or single participant.
*24 Hours per Day for 5 days: the event starts 9am Tues 10/17 and runs through 9pm Sat 10/21
[Oct 17-21 Available - Register for 1 Day]
