CyberPatriot

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What is CyberPatriot?

Basic Information

- Established by the Air Force Association (AFA), CyberPatriot or the National Youth Cyber Defense Competition, is part of the National Youth Cyber Education Program, a program designed to inspire students from levels K-12 towards a career in cybersecurity. CyberPatriot, the nation's largest cyber defense competition, places high school and middle school students in Windows and Linux based environments, tasking these students with securing a virtual machine. All scenarios are designed to replicate real life threats, providing students with the training necessary to secure not only virtual machines, but physical hardware as well.

CyberPatriot Competition

- The CyberPatriot competition is composed of several rounds. Each of these rounds consists of several tasks, in which teams will partake in two challenges in earn points:

• Network Security Challenge
• Cisco Networking Challenge

Network Security Challenge

- The network security challenge tasks students in locating and eliminating vulnerabilities found in a variety of operation systems. Each vulnerability fixed grants the team points, placing them higher up on the leader board. Vulnerabilities can range from removing unauthorized users to uninstalling malicious software. Operating systems utilized in the CyberPatriot competition include the following:

• Windows 10
• Windows Server
• Ubuntu
• Debian

Cisco Networking Challenge

- The Cisco networking challenge on the other hand, tasks students with completing an online quiz. As well as configuring a virtual network utilizing the program Packet Tracer.

MHS CyberPatriot

- Maricopa High School is proud to partake in the nation CyberPatriot competition. Having competed for several years, we strive to aim higher each year. Go RAMs! The CyberPatriot program here at MHS is made possible by the (insert class name) and ROTC.

MHS CyberPatriot 2021 - 2022

Teams: Participating in the 2021-2022 competition, MHS currently has two registered teams, consisting of many awesome students, each bringing their own skills to the table. The MHS CyberPatriot team is managed and lead by the one and only Mr. Chamberlain!

- Coach:

- Team A / Warriors of the Net (The Dream Team)

- Team B / 24PinTech Alpha:

CyberPatriot Set-Up Process

- Before beginning the CyberPatriot competition, several steps must be completed. This steps include the following:

• Image Download: About a week before the competition, the images used will be available to download. Mr. Chamberlain will provide the document with download links and passcodes. Download these images to your computer and upload them to the network drive. This process can be completed the fastest if each student downloads one image. Not everyone needs to download the image as it will be available on the network drive.
• Location: Competitions will take place in the (insert classroom name) here at MHS. Students will typically arrive at the gate between culinary and the library at 9:00 a.m.
• Image Download and Set-up: Once seated at your computer, access the network drive and drag the image to your desktop. Using the provided decryption code, unlock the folder and extract it. Open VMWare and (insert instructions)
• Beginning the Round Image: Once you have booted up your virtual machine, enter your team's unique identifier. Congratulations, you have begun, this applies to all images. Your team will have 6 hours (check to see if right) to complete the images. Make sure to submit all images before the deadline, or your team will lose points.