Minnesota and Wisconsin CCDC 2008 Review
On February 9-10, 2008 Inver Hills Community College at Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota hosted the Minnesota Wisconsin Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition.
On February 9-10, 2008 Inver Hills Community College at Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota hosted the Minnesota Wisconsin Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition.
On the cyber-battlefield, the only evidence of the recently completed war games are a few empty tables, drained coffee cups and spent soda cans. For the warriors, the week after means catching up on sleep and reinforcing lessons learned. The carnage took place over the March 24-26 weekend when the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign hosted a new breed of war games--the Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (CCDC).
"All the teams competed well, and I hope they all learned something from the experience," explained Susan Hinrichs, a research professor at the Information Trust Institute (ITI), and co-organizer of the regional event.