The fourth annual iteration of the Sanford Cyber Cup is scheduled for October 6 – 8, 2023. Participants should anticipate the following schedule:<\/p>\n
Winning undergraduate and graduate teams will each receive $2,000 split across the team.<\/strong><\/p>\n Questions? Contact Spencer Reeves at spencer.reeves@duke.edu.<\/p>\n Thanks to Paladin Capital Group, Unit 42 by Palo Alto Networks, and Trellix for their sponsorship of this program.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The third Sanford – Unit 42 Cyber Cup was held from October 21-23, 2022. Read about the competition and winning teams here<\/a><\/p>\n The second annual iteration of the Sanford Palo Alto Cyber Cup was held from October 23-24, 2021<\/strong>. As the university community took advantage of Duke Cyber Week to learn about cybersecurity and tech policy and its role in a wide array of disciplines and social debates, undergraduate and graduate students were invited to participate in a public policy cyberattack response simulation.<\/p>\n The Sanford Palo Alto Cyber Cup is a partnership between the Sanford School of Public Policy and Palo Alto Networks, a leading incident response, risk management, and digital forensics firm.<\/p>\n This annual competition challenged teams of students to develop and present policy recommendations designed to address a hypothetical, high-stakes cybersecurity scenario. Competitors grappled with both the immediate response to the cyber incident and the social and political fallout the event created. The winning team earned $2,000 and first-round interviews for a cybersecurity internship with Palo Alto Networks.<\/p>\n The inaugural Sanford-Crypsis Cyber Cup was held in October 2020 as a new partnership between the Sanford School of Public Policy and The Crypsis Grou<\/a>p, a leading incident response, risk management, and digital forensics firm (now part of Palo Alto Networks).<\/p>\n The competition is designed to challenge teams of students to develop and present policy recommendations designed to address hypothetical, high-stakes cybersecurity scenarios. The 2020 competition centered around a cyber incident targeting Duke Health system days before a high-ranking cabinet official was scheduled to undergo an operation.<\/p>\n Competitors were asked to develop a policy response drawing from federal, state, private sector, and military resources. Uncertainty about the actor behind the attack, adequate response strength, and proper authorities led to a complex scenario that forced teams to think outside of the box and innovate new policy responses.<\/p>\n Finalist teams advanced to a second round, where new developments revealed the actor behind the attack and drastically expanded the risk to US critical infrastructure. Teams had less than 30 minutes to develop a response to the rapidly-evolving scenario, simulating the uncertainty and short response time of an actual cyber incident.<\/p>\nInformation about the time commitment for the Cyber Cup is as follows:<\/h5>\n
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Previous Competitions<\/h1>\n
2022 Competition<\/strong><\/h2>\n
2021 Competition<\/strong><\/h2>\n
2020 Competition<\/strong><\/h2>\n