Cyber Resources

Members of the CGA Cyber Team participated in the National Cyber League Fall 2022 Individual and Team Competitions, measuring skills in a wide variety of cyber disciplines ranging from web application hacking to digital forensics, cryptography, and reverse engineering. Underclass team members led the way in the individual competition, with our top scoring cadet (3/c Fulbright) finishing in the top 4% out of over 6,500 competitors across the country. In the team competition, a mixed team of upperclass and underclass cadets finished in a similar top tier of teams.

During 20-22 January 2023, 15 cadets from the CGA Cyber Team traveled to Washington, DC to learn, compete, and network at the Shmoocon 2023 Cybersecurity Conference. Cyber Team cadets attended keynote presentations, networked with CGCYBER Officers and industry processionals, and studied and competed in a variety of technical fields including reverse engineering, cryptography, and RFID exploitation. Some notable cadet achievements from the conference are:

• A team of underclass cadets were the first-place finishers of the Clarity Cybersecurity Cryptography Challenge, finishing the challenges hours before any other team in attendance did.
• 1/c Campbell worked collaboratively with prior CG Cyber officers to solve the RET2 Systems reverse engineering challenge, a prestigious and notable reverse engineering puzzle that no CGA cadet has solved in three years.

From 19-21 April 2023 the Cyber Team will compete in the National Security Agency’s annual National Cyber Exercise (NCX) against other service academies and senior military colleges. Multiple four-person CGA teams will compete in such areas as data analysis, digital forensics, reverse engineering, and policy. The event concludes on the final day with a six hour “live-fire” attack and defense event.