COMPETE.
CCDC, CTFs, and other competitions. defending live infrastructure, attacking services, and racing the clock.
MACCDC — 3rd Place (Final Year)
Wrapped up my final MACCDC with a 3rd place finish. The National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition has teams defending live infrastructure while completing business and technical injects under pressure. My role centered on the injects — I completed 30 across Windows and Linux servers, Palo Alto and Cisco firewalls, and a VyOS router over a 12-hour period.
Wicked6 CTF — 4th Place, Captained All-Women Team
Captained CCSO's first all-women team at Wicked6 — an attack and defense CTF where teams analyze source code from custom services, exploit vulnerabilities to capture flags, and patch services to defend against attacks. We had five services across Go, Rust, PHP, JavaScript, HTML, and a compiled binary. Placed 4th out of 10 teams.
CCDC Season — Qualifiers → Regionals → Wildcard
Competed in three rounds of CCDC: Qualifiers (2nd place out of 17), Regionals (2nd place at MACCDC), and the Wildcard Round (3rd place). A full competition season of defending live infrastructure against an active red team while completing business injects.
DOE CyberFire Competition
Competed in the U.S. Department of Energy's CyberFire competition, developed by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Pitted Penn State students against each other and the clock — racing to crack passwords, solve ciphers, and compromise vulnerable networks.