This repository contains cybersecurity challenges developed for the inaugural 2019 President's Cup Cybersecurity Competition. For more information about the President's Cup and why it was established, visit https://cisa.gov/presidentscup.
All of the challenge content can be found in the /individual and /team directories, each mapping to respective President's Cup competition. Each challenge sub-directory follows the following format:
{round}-{category}-{points}-{name}
The individuals and teams competitions each contained three successive rounds, with the first round being an open to Federal employees and memebers of the U.S. military. Each successive round downselected to ultimately determine a winner.
For the first two rounds, a gameboard was presented that contained categories from the NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework. Here are the acronyms used in this repository:
| Acronym | Challenge Category |
|---|---|
ai |
Analyze and Investigate |
co |
Collect and Operate |
om |
Operate and Maintain |
pd |
Protect and Defend |
sp |
Securely Provision |
tfc |
The Final Countdown |
The final round challenges were not organized by category. They are numbered 01-10 for this field.
For the first two rounds, challenges were worth points based on their location within the game board. This field is ommitted for the final round challenge directories.
The challenge name is the final part of the directory name.
Some of the challenges includes large files as a separate download. See the README.md in each challenge folder for the download location.
Some challenges could not be released as open source due to licensing restrictions or because they were designed to be delivered in a hosted environment. The rest of the 2019 challenges are located in this repo.
Copyright 2020 Carnegie Mellon University. See the LICENSE.md file for details.