• Cyber Defense Competitions,  DevOps,  Solutions Architecture

    Wouldn’t you prefer a nice game of chess? – Designing and Running a Cyber Defense Competition in AWS

    In July 2018 Highline College and Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST) hosted the 3rd annual International Collegiate Cyber Defense Invitational (ICCDI). In 2017 the competition was held on the Highline College campus in Des Moines, WA and all participating colleges save one competed on campus. Eight students from Politeknik Negeri Medan in Indonesia competed remotely. The competition was run on Highline’s VMware infrastructure and the team in Indonesia connected via VPN and accessed the game environment through VMware Horizon virtual desktops. For the 2018 competition we would have teams of students at Highline and at NUST s well as Indonesia competing remotely again. With teams in at least three different…