2024 California Mayors Cyber Cup Second Place - Inland Empire/Desert Region Middle School Division
  • Type Experience
  • Level Foundational
  • Time Hours
  • Cost Free

2024 California Mayors Cyber Cup Second Place - Inland Empire/Desert Region Middle School Division

Issued by SynED

The earner of this badge was a team member that won second place in the Middle School Division at the 2024 California Mayors Cyber Cup on April 27, 2024. This cybersecurity competition featured the Cyber Skyline platform and was a 3-hour competition. SynED recognizes that the Earners of the award demonstrated their knowledge of the core concepts of cybersecurity in the competition offered by Cyber Skyline.

  • Type Experience
  • Level Foundational
  • Time Hours
  • Cost Free

Skills

  • Basic Concepts Of Cryptography
  • Cybersecurity
  • Encryption
  • Log Analysis
  • Network And Traffic Analysis
  • Open Source Intelligence

Earning Criteria

  • Registration in the 2024 California Mayors Cyber Cup via the Cyber Skyline game platform and participation in the full 3-hour competition.
  • Acquire skills through the Cyber Skyline game platform practice gymnasium and competition.
  • Achieve the second highest team score for the division.
  • 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.).

Standards

NIST 800-181 Workforce Framework for Cybersecurity (NICE Framework)
NIST 800-181, the Workforce Framework for Cybersecurity (NICE Framework), provides a set of building blocks for describing the tasks, knowledge, abilities and skills that are needed to perform cybersecurity work.