Fox Cities Composite Squadron - Civil Air Patrol

Today four Cadets, from the Fox Cities Composite Squadron, competed in round I of CyberPatriot, a cyber defense competition for high school age students sponsored by the Air Force Association. There are two divisions- All Service, which includes CAP and JROTC cadets and the Open Division, which is for individual high school teams. The cadets/students learn about information assurance and security and then have to defend a server against a simulated attack. The attacks included viruses, trojans, and hacking attempts. They have to repel the attacks and harden the operating system against further attacks while maintaining availability of service (ex. a web server needs to keep serving web pages).

--- UPDATE 27 Oct 2010 ---

Congratulations to the FCCS team!

This past Saturday the FCCS CyberPatriot Team competed in the first round of the CyberPatriot competition.  Out of 661 teams in the All Services Division (JROTC and CAP) they placed high enough to get a bye for Round 2 and proceed directly to Round 3. This means they placed in the top 16 of the 150 CAP teams nationally and in the top 34 overall nationally! No other Wisconsin Wing team got a bye, and only two other teams in Great Lakes Region received a bye.

Congratulations to Cadets Donte Hall, Nick Sosinski, Zachary Hoffmann, and Bryce Sullivan for their performance in Round 1.  Cadets Caitlin Jackson, Mitchell Lichtenwald, and Matt Hackett are on the team as well, but were unable to compete in this round.

Also a thank you to Major Terrance Schmitt the team coach and mentor.