Cybersecurity Interdisciplinary Incident Response Competition (CIIRC) 2024
Overview: The Central Texas Cyber Range located at Baylor University is hosting an interdisciplinary cyber competition that seeks to challenge students’ ability to work through complex, real-world, practical problems by placing them in leadership positions within a company that discovers it has been the subject of a cybersecurity breach. The competition will span multiple disciplines, such as IT, Legal, Communications, Business, Behavioral Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Political Science.
Teams are comprised of representatives from a collection of disciplines who must work together to provide a unified response. As a group, the team must identify and remediate a breach of their assigned network, propose a response to the breach, assess the relevant legal circumstances, and develop a communications plan to present it all.
When: October 18-20 2024. The competition will span two days, including a post-contest analysis for team feedback. This competition will be held virtually. Schedule will be distributed to accepted teams.
Team Size: Five students per team. Students must be a full-time undergraduate student in a four-year institution located in the United States. There will be a limit of 6 teams for the first year of the competition.
Registration of Interest: Submit this form to indicate your interest. The submissions will be evaluated and the teams selected for the competition will be notified at a later date. Please be sure to read all rules and instructions regarding registration and the competition found here.
Background information and Practice Materials: Click here to download information pertaining to the competition, suggestions for how to prepare/practice for the event, and examples of scoring rubrics for the competition.
All the costs for developing this competition have been provided by grants from the U.S. Department of Education (Grant Awards: P116Z220034 and P116Z230151).
For questions, contact CIIRC@baylor.edu.