AIHEC Cyber Competition Objectives:

AIHEC Cyber Competition introduces and encourages students to explore computer science and cybersecurity education disciplines and careers. Students will explore cybersecurity concepts, attack vectors, coding principles, ethics, and more through a series of cybersecurity challenges. This competition will include but is not limited to Capture the Flag (CTF), Jeopardy style, and other educational toolsets as determined by the host committee and lead coordinator.

AIHEC Cybersecurity Competition Rules:

• Teams shall have at least one (1) member, but no more than five (5) members. A Tribal College may enter more than one team. A team must represent no more than one Tribal College or University.

• Every team must have an adult who is employed by the team’s academic institution, following the same exceptions outlined in the “Team/Institution relationship” section, who will act as the institution’s official liaison. They may solicit assistance or volunteers from their community as needed, but only the official school liaison is recognized by AIHEC Cyber Competition for the purposes of communication, discipline, and transmission of student data.

• Teams will be supplied with:

  • Logins to the game engine for all eligible participants

  • Network access is sufficient to complete the challenges and engage with the game engine.

  • A scoreboard identifying current team scores and rankings.

  • A table of approximately 24”x96” which must contain all team equipment within the vertical area bounded by the surface of the table, up to a height of no more than 30” above the surface of the table.

  • One power strip with at least five ground 110v plugins. laptops containing tools needed for the competition.​

• Participants will need to supply all computing equipment including laptops, monitors, keyboards, mice, or other input devices, and associated cables they wish to have for the competition.

• Note: The team is responsible for ensuring their computing resources can connect to/ function within the AIHEC Cyber Competition event network.

• Teams will gather information and attempt to breach a live system hosted at the competition.

• Points will be granted based on the following categories:

  • Reconnaissance

  • Scanning

  • Gaining Access

  • Maintaining Access

  • Clearing Tracks

  • Data Exfiltration

  • Teams must be able to demonstrate to judges how each category was accomplished.

• Teams are not allowed to sabotage each other during this competition.

• Three (3) independent judges will evaluate each team’s efforts.