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MPICT and 3 other NSF ATE Centers,
CSSIA in
Illinois,
Cyberwatch in Maryland and the new
Cyberwatch West at Cal Poly Pomona, are joining forces to
make ICT security education more fun and engaging and to give
ICT security students more real world, hands-on experiences in
securing complex ICT systems through creation of a National
Cyber League (NCL).
The NCL is being positioned alongside other security
competitions (like
Cyber Patriot, optimized for high schools, and the
National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (CCDC),
optimized for 4-year colleges and universities). The NCL is
optimized for community colleges and 4-year colleges and
universities.
In addition to cyber-competition tournament play, the NCL will
have regular season play, with a series of weekly individual
and team activities via remote, hosted computer laboratories
to prepare teams for end of season and other tournament
competitions.
24 teams will participate in the Spring 2012 pilot season, 8
teams from each division. Activities and competitions will be
aligned to CompTIA Network+ and CNSS 4011 standards.
CyberWatch, CSSIA, and CyberWatch West will each take
responsibility for the content of two of the six regular
season games, and each will provide a virtual, hosted
competition lab environment.
There will be a six week, virtual, regular season (April
11-May 27), followed by a one week virtual playoff and a
face-to-face virtual championship game.
Weekly play will be scored. Points and position in each league
will be posted on the NCL website at
http://nationalcyberleague.org.
The top team in each league plus one wild card team will
compete in a National Playoff, conducted remotely in a hosted
lab environment, May 28–June 3. There will be two head-to-head
competitions between two teams.
The two winning teams of the virtual playoff will travel to
compete in a virtual championship conducted live from the 2012
Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education (CISSE)
Conference in Orlando on June 10, 2012.
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