Director's Trophy Winner
United States Military
Academy
Participants
United States Military Academy
United States Air Force Academy
Naval Postgraduate School*
Red Team
NSA
92nd Aggressor Squadron
Land Information Warfare Activity
Coaching
Staff
LTC Dan Ragsdale
COL Don Welch
Mr. Wayne Schepens*As
a graduate school, the Naval Postgraduate
School is not eligible to compete for the Director's Trophy.
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Cadet Participants
Todd Arnold
Rick Bell
Marcus Brakewood (Iron Eagle)
Jeremy Bukowczyk
Brandon Graves
Mike Herrington
Jeff Maranich
Mark McBride
Michael Mosby
Dennis Nishikawa
Adam Rankin
Amir Soofi
Matthew Vea (Iron Eagle)
Jason Wayne
Gene Yu
Iron
Eagle Award
The Iron Eagle Award is presented to the cadets who distinguish
themselves through their actions during the Cyber Defense Exercise.
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Overview
In
2001 the teams at each academy were given a ten-day window to
"secure the net" before the red teams initiated their
attacks. The Red Team accessed the networks at each academy through
a virtual private network (VPN).
The
exercise was conducted during the period 21 April through 11 May
2001. During the execution phase of the exercise, the NSA-lead
red team used commercial tools and a vast array of both well-known
and little-known attacks against the Cyber Defense Networks at
each academy.
After a week of attacks and subsequent evaluations, the USMA Black
Knights were deemed the team with the strongest security posture
and were declare winner of the highly coveted NSA Information
Assurance Director's Trophy.
In May 2001, Mr. Michael Jacobs, the NSA Information Assurance
(IA) Director, presented the trophy to BG Daniel J. Kaufman, Dean
of the Academic Board.
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