Texas A&M placed third at the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (CCDC). In this competition, 8 regional champion teams competed to protect their corporate networks from intruders, and keep all network services running. Congratulations to Texas A&M’s team members:

CCDC is a unique competition for full-time college students.  Students are “hired” as the new IT department for a corporation and asked to provide services and protect the network.  During the competition, teams are under constant attack from a “Red Team” of experienced network security professionals acting as hackers. This competition has grown from five Southwest schools in 2005 to include 65 schools from across the Nation.

Texas A&M has won four Southwest regional competitions, and competed at three national competitions. Even though CCDC is more challenging each year, Texas A&M has met the challenge by placing in the top three at each national tournament in which they have competed.