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Overview

The eCitadel Open (formerly CyberDiscord) is a free-to-play cyber defense competition that allows anyone to participate. Teams compete by securing provided Windows and Linux based virtual machines, maintaining critical services, resolving injects, and solving cybersecurity-related challenges. Teams accumulate points for addressing each scored issue and must race against the clock to accumulate as many points as they can before time expires.

Game Play

At the beginning of eCitadel events, teams are provided with a set of virtual machines each worth 100 points. To score points, teams must address the security related issues on each of those virtual machines. Teams may need to find and remove a persistent threat, correct permissions on the root directory of a webserver, or restrict remote access to the Windows Registry. Team actions are scored in near real-time by automated agents providing direct feedback to competitors for both positive actions (that accumulate points) and negative actions (that result in penalties and a loss of points).

Benefits for Competitors

The eCitadel Open provides an excellent opportunity for teams to practice security, forensic, configuration, and system administration tasks. The defensive and administration skills developed and exercised in eCitadel help prepare students for other events such as CyberPatriot or the Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition.

Team Composition

eCitadel teams consist of 2 to 4 players. Competitors may only participate on a single team during each eCitadel event.

Hardware and Network Requirements

There are no minimum hardware requirements to participate.