Over the course of 3 days, 4 WCTC freshmen from a variety of majors competed in the NCL ethical hacking competition. Despite their limited knowledge, the group, made up of Rae Baker, Jesse Quijano, Ron Long, and Nicholas Dzienis, came in 193rd out of 627!
The NCL is a defensive and offensive puzzle-based, capture-the-flag style cybersecurity competition. Its virtual training ground helps high school and college students prepare and test themselves against cybersecurity challenges that they will likely face in the workforce. All participants play the games simultaneously during Preseason, Individual Game and Team Game.
NCL allows players of all levels to enter. Between easy, medium and hard challenges, students have multiple opportunities to really shine in areas as they excel.
The NCL challenges are based on the CompTIA Security+™ and EC-Council Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)™ performance-based exam objectives and include the following content: Open Source Intelligence, Scanning, Enumeration and Exploitation, Password Cracking, Traffic Analysis, Log Analysis, Wireless Security, Cryptography, and Web Application Security.
When you compete in NCL you are provided with a scorecard that can then be used in your interviews or on a resume. Below is the WCTC group scores for the Spring 2018 Team Game. Be sure to keep an eye out for the next game in Fall 2018 so you can join the team! All skill levels are welcome. We will be holding meetings to discuss the challenge and to learn more skills that will be helpful for competing such as Kali Linux, Wireshark, Enumeration and Exploitation, etc. so stay tuned!
