Socal Cyber Cup

Socal Cyber Cup is a cybersecurity competition for middle school, high school, and community college teams in Southern California. It was the club's first year at the Cyber Cup, and three teams from NHS Cybersecurity Club competed at the qualifying round (which was the traditional jeapordy CTF similar to NCL). One of the three teams, named Henry is god, made it to the finals, where the 8 members worked to defend servers from live automated attacks. It ranged from various database systems, web servers, and a file sever. Henry is god won 3rd place in high school varsity division, winning $2500 for the club (and a gift card for each member as well!)



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National Cyber League

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National Cyber League is a nation wide CTF-style cybersecurity competition for high school and college students. It tests participants' cybersecurity knowledge and skills in various fields including open source intelligence, cryptography, password cracking, log analysis, network traffic analysis, forensics, scanning, web application exploitation, and enumeration and exploitation. Students are able to train and learn new materials from Gym, and practice solving challenges prior to the start of the actual competition. During the preseason, participants are tested in few areas and are placed in different divisions. During the individual round, all participants compete individually, while the team game allows students to form a team of up to 7 members, and allows members to collaborate to tackle on challenges together.


Cyberpatriot

Cyberpatriot is a cybersecurity competition for high school students created by the Air Force Association for K-12 students. In contrast to other CTF competitions, cyberpatriot differs in the sense that it is focused entirely on hardening operating systems, and getting awarded points for finding vulnerabilities and securing them (rather than looking for flags, as done in a CTF). Upon receiving Virtual Image of an OS (Windows or Linux), students would use a virtual machine software and work inside the OS to answer forensics questions, search for vulnerabilities, and make changes in the system to make it the most secure. In 2020-2021 season, two teams from Northwood's Cybersecurity Club have advanced to Platinum tiers (rest advanced to Gold Tier).



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Cybersecurity Summer Camp

From July 11th to July 13th, Northwood High School’s Cybersecurity club hosted a summer camp for elementary and middle school students new to the cyber realm. The camp kicked off with an introduction of the club and an inspiring guest speaker. With the help of Josh Chin, co-founder of cybersecurity consultant company Netforce, participants were able to capture a glimpse of the cybersecurity industry and how to become involved. Northwood students then presented a variety of topics including ethics, operational security, open-source intelligence, social engineering, cipher, and forensics before wrapping up for the first successful day of camp. The following day, club members continued to present more topics such as web application exploitation, log analysis, password cracking, and network analysis. Finally, the camp concluded on day three, and with their freshly-obtained knowledge, participants were put to the test with a jeopardy-style Capture the Flag.

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Above is Brian Yu's presentation on Steganography and Sydney Duong's presentation on Network Analysis.