Earning Criteria

• Registration in the 2024 NorCalCyber Mayors Cup via the Cyber Skyline game platform and participation in the full 3-hour competition. All participants in the team have no prior experience in cyber competitions.
• Acquire skills through the Cyber Skyline game platform practice gymnasium and competition.
• Achieve the highest team score in the competition for a team where all players have no prior experience in cyber competitions.
• NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework K0001: Knowledge of computer networking concepts and protocols, and network security methodologies.
• NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework K0005: Knowledge of cyber threats and vulnerabilities.
• NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework K0018: Knowledge of encryption algorithms.
• NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework K0019: Knowledge of cryptography and cryptographic key management concepts.
• NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework K0024: Knowledge of database systems.
• NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework K0040: Knowledge of vulnerability information dissemination sources (e.g., alerts, advisories, errata, and bulletins).
• NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework K0042: Knowledge of incident response and handling methodologies.
• NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework K0052: Knowledge of mathematics (e.g. logarithms, trigonometry, linear algebra, calculus, statistics, and operational analysis).
• NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework K0056: Knowledge of network access, identity, and access management (e.g., public key infrastructure, Oauth, OpenID, SAML, SPML).
• NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework K0058: Knowledge of network traffic analysis methods.
• NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework K0145: Knowledge of security event correlation tools.
• NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework K0301: Knowledge of packet-level analysis using appropriate tools (e.g., Wireshark, tcpdump).
• NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework K0308: Knowledge of cryptology.
• NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework K0565: Knowledge of the common networking and routing protocols (e.g. TCP/IP), services (e.g., web, mail, DNS), and how they interact to provide network communications.
• NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework S0057: Skill in using protocol analyzers.
• NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework S0089: Skill in one-way hash functions (e.g., Secure Hash Algorithm [SHA], Message Digest Algorithm [MD5]).
• NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework S0156: Skill in performing packet-level analysis.
• NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework S0221: Skill in extracting information from packet captures.
• NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework S0298: Skill in verifying the integrity of all files. (e.g., checksums, Exclusive OR, secure hashes, check constraints, etc.).