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Coaches’ Meetings January 14 & 15, 2014

Air Force Association’s CyberPatriot The National High School Cyber Defense Competition

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CyberPatriot Commissioner

Bernie Skoch

Manager of

Competition Systems and Cyber Training

Ryne Smith

Competition Operations

Coordinator

(Vacant)

Manager of

Program Administration and Events

Rachel Zimmerman

Registration and

Middle School Coordinator

Leslie Walczak

Sponsorship and Outreach Coordinator

Rebecca Dalton

Director of Competition Operations

Frank Zaborowski

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Air Force Association AFA

CyberPatriot

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The Coach is the Backbone of the Competition

No team may compete in CyberPatriot until there is first a responsible adult willing to accept the following responsibilities.

(1) Competitor Protection. The coach is responsible for the protection and safety of their team’s competitors while involved in CyberPatriot activities. Access to minor students in a way that protects them, respects parental prerogatives, and follows legal statutes (e.g., Children's Internet Protection Act), is the coach’s responsibility. As the “gate keeper” for contact with the competitors, the coach is accountable for the interaction of “mentors or technical advisors” to the competitors.

(2) Competition Integrity. Ensuring the integrity of the competition is essential to the fairness of the competition. Once the competition begins, the coach must ensure that their competitors receive no assistance, except between competitors on the same team. The coach upholds the guiding and operating principles of the competition at the team level.

(3) Official Point of Contact. The coach is the official point of contact for a team. Official CyberPatriot competition and other correspondence is provided to coaches for further dissemination to their teams. It is key during competition that coaches monitor their e-mail for up-to-date information that competitors will not receive directly. The role of official point of contact cannot be delegated to the mentor.

(4) Abide by the CyberPatriot Coaches’ Agreement.

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Meeting is based around presentation.

Presenters will use Audio

Participants will use Chat

NO private chat rooms

Hold questions until the end, so everyone can concentrate on brief

Presentation will be posted at www.uscyberpatriot.org under the CyberPatriot VI tab/

CyberPatriot VI Documents

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This WebEx is provided by Cisco Systems

CyberPatriot

Events

GCCS Timeline Things to start thinking about:

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• Which six (five primary, one alternate) of your registered

competitors will attend the National Finals Competition?

• Who will act as Chaperone for the team?

• Coaches with multiple teams: who will act as the chaperones for

your second/third team?

Things we will ask for from National Finalists soon:

• Legal name and birth date of everyone (adults included) who will

attend the National Finals Competition

• Grade level and career aspirations for the competitors traveling to

the National Finals Competition

• A photo of the team (CyberPatriot / Team Shirts or Uniforms)

• A high-res (EPS) and regular-res (JPEG) version of the school or

organization’s logo

CyberPatriot

Outreach

GCCS Timeline Video Contest

1. Upload your video to YouTube

2. Send the video link to info@uscyberpatriot.org (Subject: #CPVI Video Contest)

3. We’ll screen each video, then post it to Twitter and Facebook

4. CyberPatriot fans and followers will vote for their favorite video

PRIZE for video with the most votes:

$100 Visa gift card, used for victory meal for the team

Is your CyberPatriot team the best team out there?

Prove it with a video! Submission deadline: January 31, 2014

GCCS Timeline Team Certificates

- Semifinalists:

Sent to team Coach starting February 1

- National Finalists: TBD

- State Recognition Round Winners:

Sent to team Coach or AFA State President starting March 1

- Regional Recognition Round: TBD

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Congratulations to CP-V Competitor

COURTNEY THURSTON for winning the NCWIT Award for Aspiration in Computing!

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@NCWITAIC

For more information visit: www.ncwit.org

www.aspirationsaward.org

CyberPatriot

Competition Operations

Sneak Preview Round • Sep. 21, 2013

Practice Round • Oct. 10 - 24, 2013

Round 1 • Nov. 15 - 17, 2013 • Backup: Nov. 22 - 24, 2013

Round 2 • Dec. 6 - 8, 2013 • Backup: Dec. 13 - 15, 2013

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Qualification

Rounds

The National Finals Competition: Mar. 26 - 29, 2014

*Note: Backup dates will be used only in case of a verified disaster, community emergency, or as directed by the Commissioner, CyberPatriot.

Semifinals • Practice: Jan. 9-15, 2014 (Tentative) • Competition: Jan. 17-19, 2014 • Backup: Jan. 24-26, 2014

State Recognition Round • Feb. 21-23, 2014 • Backup: Feb. 28 – Mar. 2, 2014

Regional Recognition Round • Practice: Feb. 24 – Mar. 6, 2014 (Tentative) • Competition: Mar. 7 - 9, 2014 • Backup: Mar. 14 - 16, 2014

CCS

CyberNEXS

All teams

compete in

Rounds 1 & 2

All teams compete except National Finalists

Top Division teams in each state compete

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Competition Windows (all times Eastern

– Friday, January 17: 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 a.m. Saturday

– Saturday, January 18: 8:00 a.m. – 11:59 pm

– Sunday, January 19: 10:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.

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• Coaches control images

• Team ID = 10 character hash different for each team

• Save scoring data files

• Four images: Windows 8, Windows Server 2008, Ubuntu, Cisco Networking

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Semifinals = Big Leagues

Avoid rookie mistakes -- they can cost teams big!

Lots of pressure. Integrity is key.

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• The six consecutive-hour competition period begins when the first image is opened.

• Teams exceeding the six consecutive-hour period will be penalized

• NO sneak peaks of images. Time starts when image opened.

• Only ONE instance of each image. Not an individual competition.

• If your team restarts an image, the original instance MUST be closed (and deleted)

• Tools must be free and available to ALL competitors

• NO snapshot functionality in VM Player

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• If VMware Player requires "taking control," then it is likely that another image process is running.

•Requesting or receiving outside help on-site or by other means (including Internet) will cause disqualification. •Creating backup copies of a CCS scoring client or an image folder is a violation of Paragraph 5013.4 of the CyberPatriot VI Rules Book. Only scoring data may be copied, per the instructions, as the last action before closing an image. •Copying software out of an image is a violation of Paragraph 5013 of the CyberPatriot VI Rules Book.

•Time already on image clock = Bad Checksum or a “Sneak Peak”

• Beware mix-up of Team IDs (Hashes)

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•Appeal notification due to Program Office via email at

info@uscyberpatriot.org by 11:59 pm Eastern January 19, 2014

•Appeals will NOT be considered without proper documentation

(e.g., school cancellation notice, principal’s letter, etc.)

•Format for appeals are in Appendix IV of the CyberPatriot

Rules Book

•Written appeals are due NLT 11:59 pm January 21, 2014

Grounds Not Considered for Appeals

• Loss of Internet Connection (have Plan B)

• Failure to Receive Competition Email.

Recruiting/Registration April – October

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Apr May Jun Jul Aug

National Finals Competition

Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar

Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar

Practice

Round Round 1 Round 2 50 Open Division

10 Middle School

Semifinals

Practice

Round

Round 1 Round 2 42 Teams

Semifinals

12 Finalist Teams

14 Finalist Teams

Open Division (Any High School) Middle School Division

All Service Division (JROTC/CAP/USNCC)

2 x Army JROTC 2 x Navy JROTC 2 x Marine Corps JROTC 2 x Air Force JROTC 2 x Civil Air Patrol 2 x US Naval Sea Cadet Corps 2 x “Wild Card”

State

Recognition

Round (SRR)

CyberPatriot Advancement Process

2 International

Exhibition Teams

(If no teams qualify in the Open Division)

Recruiting Pre-Registration January – April

Exhibition

Round

Exhibition

Round

Exhibition

Round

Exhibition

Round

Exhibition

Round

Exhibition

Round

Regional

Recognition

Round (RRR)

Qualification Rounds

Qualification Rounds

Semifinalists National Finalists All Teams All Teams

6 x Army JROTC 6 x Navy JROTC 6 x Marine Corps JROTC 6 x Air Force JROTC 6 x Civil Air Patrol 6 x US Naval Sea Cadet Corps 6 x “Wild Card”

Semifinalists National Finalists All Teams All Teams

1st Place

State Teams

Orientation Only Orientation Only Orientation Only

Orientation Only Orientation Only Orientation Only

Teams

not advanced

to Semifinals

Non-National

Finalists

Non-National

Finalists

No Middle School teams

in the SRR & RRR

2 Middle School

Pilot Teams

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• Top 12 Open Division teams

• Top two All Service Division teams from each category (Air Force JROTC, CAP, etc.) and two Wild Cards

• Top two Middle School Division teams

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National Finals Advancement

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• ALL teams may compete in the State Recognition Round (except National Finalist and Middle School teams)

• Top team from each state, territory, as well as the top Canadian, European, Asian, and virtual team advances to the Regional Recognition Round

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Non-National Finalists

CyberPatriot

Competition Systems

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• Sunday tech support will be offered by Adobe Connect chat ONLY

• Decryption password and hashes will be sent to Coaches at 9 a.m. on Friday

• Local scoring feedback will not be displayed without connection to server

• Team is responsible for tracking their time.

• Do not open images for any reason after six hours unless instructed by the CyberPatriot Program Office.

• Instructions on saving scoring data is in the Semifinals instructions

• Scoring Data file required for a score correction

• Public scoreboard will be available, but will not include Cisco scores

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• Image download and instructions will be sent in the coming days

• Must be completed in the same six consecutive-hour period

• Decompression and extraction is the same as CCS images

• Teams must enter Team ID (hash)

• Two components: • Cisco Packet Tracer • IP addressing (subnetting, supernetting, and all variable-length subnet masking)

• Scores must be manually submitted within the six-hour period. They will not appear on the public scoreboard

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If you do not enter

a valid Team ID,

local scoring

feedback will be

disabled. Verify

your team ID

(hash) and re-

enter it.

Scoring page will

be on the Cisco

image, but will not

display points

gained or lost

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Teams must

maintain a

connection to the

scoring server for

local scoring

feedback to be

displayed.

If you’re unable to connect to the scoring server, contact your IT dept. or network administrator.

Scoring page will

be on the Cisco

image, but will not

display points

gained or lost

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Penalties are now

assessed for actions

that run contrary to

the parameters of

the scenario (e.g.

disabling a service

on a web server).

Points lost to

penalties can be

regained by

corrective action. XXXX

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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• To back up scoring data in Windows:

•In the image, open Windows Explorer. •Navigate to C:\CyberPatriot\ScoringData. •Copy the ENTIRE contents of this directory into a .zip file. •Copy the .zip file to your host machine.

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• To back up scoring data in Ubuntu:

•Navigate to \opt\CyberPatriot\ScoringData. •Copy the ENTIRE contents of this directory into a .zip file. •Copy the .zip file to your host machine.

• Shut down images and do not reopen unless directed by the CyberPatriot Program Office

• Delete all four images

When your team is finished

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CyberPatriot Competition System

Control Delete

Treat as Examination Material

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• Recorded Cisco meetings and exercises on the training materials page of

uscyberpatriot.org

• Some materials require a password that can be obtained after Coach fills out

emailed license agreement

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Questions

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