Midwest CCDC

Subcommittee Purpose (Judging)

As approved by CIAB, provide competition with accurate, objective judging and scoring. Ensure integrity of overall event. (white team with gold team member)

Primary Goals

1. Identify chief judge (gold team member)
2. Define how subcommittee score will be tabulated and propose to CIAB
3. Select and secure competition judging staff / team
4. Recommend process and procedure for overall judging processes
5. Ensure guidelines and rules of competition are being followed as set by CIAB
6. Monitor all scoring processes (red team, injects, services, other) during given competition
7. Establish team / judging communication mechanisms
8. Validate and confirm final scores
9. Judge all inject as provided by inject team
10. Mange all conflict resolution
11. Address adhoc injects
12. How would the judging team handle the following: How points are awards for injects completion?  Timing, all or none.

Subcommittee Purpose (Scoring)

Manage integrity and effectiveness of the scoring mechanisms and procedures for services and connectivity throughout competition. (white team with gold team member)

Primary Goals

1. Identify chief scorer (gold team member)
2. Define how subcommittee score will be tabulated and propose to CIAB
3. Select and secure competition scoring staff / team
4. Recommend processes and procedures for overall service scoring and logging
5. Implement all scoring software and equipment for regional competition
6. Design architecture and process  for redundant scoring systems
7. Provide training course for state competition scoring technicians
8. Create scoring toolkit with resources necessary to score competition (software, videos, instructions…)
9. Ensure guidelines and rules of competition are being followed as set by CIAB
10. Monitor all scoring processes (services, application, manual checks) during given competition
11. Establish scoring / judging communication mechanisms
12. Validate and confirm final scores within subcommittee

Subcommittee Purpose (Topology, Scenario and Team Packet)

Working with the host site manager, design competition topology including hardware, software and service selection including recovery processes.  Write event scenario and publish team packet for CIAB approval and distribution.

Primary Goals

1. Assist host site manager with topology implementation
2. Recommend processes and procedures for overall service scoring and logging
3. Implement all scoring software and equipment for regional competition
4. Design core architecture
5. Ensure guidelines and rules of competition are being followed as set by CIAB
6. Methodology for white (judging and scoring), red (threats), blue (student teams), gold (chief judge and event operators), green (hospitality), other organizers interaction and connectivity
7. Design IP address scheme and naming conventions
8. Design central infrastructure and select central services
9. Create topology document
10. Develop event scenario
11. Publish team packet

Subcommittee Purpose (Site Manager / Hospitality)

Act as facility management and coordinate all hospitality (green team)

Primary Goals

1. Create “greeter package” for each team and check-in processes for teams
2. Coordinate hotel needs for competition staff
3. Coordinate all food service activities to event agenda
4. Gifts and giveaways
5. Name tags
6. Trophies
7. Create and execute event surveys and feedback
8. Photos
9. Onsite help
10. Signage
11. Presentation equipment
12. Team invitation and travel information
13. Team packet distribution and management
14. Main team contact
15. Human resource issues and emergency contacts
16. Local site administrative liaison
17. Support local technology
18. Room assignments (teams, faculty, white room, red room, physical security, physical access, power distribution, troubleshooting and maintenance, breakout rooms, rest room
19. Core network access and wiring closet access
20. Local network administration
21. Provide detailed cable and implementation plan to topology team

Subcommittee Purpose (Injects and Business Analysis)

Develop injects and anomalies for team competition.  These will assess the skills and individual responses for each team. 

Primary Goals

1. Create inject and anomaly template
2. Develop regional injects and anomalies with the following scope:
   1. Administrative
   2. Service changes
   3. Testing
   4. Upgrades
   5. Assessment
   6. Technical plans
   7. Infrastructure changes
   8. New or improved security measures
   9. Applications
   10. Reporting and incident response
3. Design state competition inject database to assist state
4. Establish scoring criteria for priority, difficulty and time assessment of each inject or anomaly
5. Ensure judging team is educated on inject scoring metrics
6. Recommend processes and procedures for overall inject development
7. Ensure all injects reflect topology and equipment availability
8. Publish final inject book for CIAB review prior to competition
9. Coordinate injects with red team for planted or inserted vulnerabilities
10. Red team may request injects from inject team

Subcommittee Purpose (Red)

Provide competition with threats to CIA.   The Red team will create threats and evaluate responses to create a more “real-world” competition environment.

1. Identify chief red team lead
2. Define how subcommittee score will be tabulated and propose to CIAB
3. Select and secure competition red team staff and members
4. Recommend processes and procedures for all red team activity
5. Identify core red team toolset to include sponsor tools (not limited)
6. Acquire licenses to competition only use (ex Core Impact)
7. Work with site team to plant OS pre-competition vulnerabilities
8. Work with inject team prior to competition to create red team injects
9. Ensure guidelines and rules of competition are being followed as set by CIAB
10. Monitor all scoring processes (red team, injects, services, other) during given competition
11. Establish team / judging communication mechanisms
12. Validate and confirm final scores
13. Verify all activity meets agenda guidelines and propose a schedule of escalation

Subcommittee Purpose (Administration)

Coordinate all activities between CSSIA, host site, CIAB and MVCC financial systems.  Individual areas of attention will include final event agenda, financial issues, website, communications, event sponsorship and other administrative requirements and CIAB communications.  Administrative group will also coordinate CIAB meetings.

Primary Goals

1.  
   1. Information sharing
   2. News
   3. Share point for resources
   4. WiKi
   5. Public and Private
   1. Identify coordinators for each competition
   2. Sponsorship canvas and coordination
   3. Centralize sponsorship for big ticket sponsors together
   4. Establish invoicing procedures
   5. Create sponsorship marketing materials
   • Final event agenda and schedule
   • Finance and budgets
   • Expense guidelines
   • Website management
   • Communications
   • Coordinate event sponsorships
   • Establish repository of documents and secure access
   • Ensure each competition site establishes a budget for approval
   • Ensure each site has a main contact and points of contact for billing
   • Other admin tasks as defined