SEASON II

Sponsors & Partners

These sponsors and partners share our vision of bringing together and inspiring the very best cybersecurity athletes, building a stronger and more diverse community, and sustaining the United States’ world-class competitive edge. We thank them for their support.

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Sponsors & Partners

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The US Cyber Games depend on the generosity of our corporate and university sponsors. We all know that the success of our cybersecurity industry depends on sourcing and training talent to reduce the workforce gap. We’re seeking organizations to share our overall mission and sponsor the program!

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Founding Partners

PlayCyber, powered by Katzcy, delivers epic Cyber Games and Esports for fans, sponsors, and players. We are dedicated to bringing together and inspiring the very best cybersecurity athletes, building a stronger and more diverse community by delivering the world’s most exciting cyber games experience. Cyber Games are a fundamental element to developing the next generation of a diverse and well-qualified community of cybersecurity talent. Games not only help build a better workforce, but they also keep the current workforce sharp and maintain a thriving community of cyber professionals prepared for what the future might hold in cyber-attacks and possible disruptive innovations.

THE NICE PROGRAM AT THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY (NIST). NICE focuses on efforts to close the hiring gap in the cybersecurity workforce. We are led by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the U.S. Department of Commerce, and a partnership between government, academia, and the private sector focused on cybersecurity education, training, and workforce development. There are many ways to get involved. You can attend our events – the NICE Conference & Expo is held annually, typically in early June, and the NICE K12 Cybersecurity Education Conference is held annually in early December. The NICE Program Office also hosts free webinars as well as monthly working group meetings.

Founding Sponsors

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is the nation’s risk advisor, working with partners to defend against today’s threats and collaborating to build a more secure and resilient infrastructure for the future. CISA leads the effort to enhance the security, resiliency, and reliability of the nation's cybersecurity and communications infrastructure.

At Raytheon Intelligence & Space, we have aligned our corporate social responsibility platforms with our business strategy to make a lasting impact in the community. We help protect and create a sustainable environment, inspire students through STEM education, and support our veterans, service members and their families. Our employees live their values by volunteering in the communities where they live and work, as well as connecting with organizations we support across the business like Student Veterans of America, and Boys & Girls Clubs serving U.S. military bases.

CACI is a $6 billion company whose mission and enterprise technology and expertise play a vital role in our national security, safeguarding our troops, and enabling our government to deliver cost-effective and high-quality support for all Americans.

Leidos is a Fortune 500® technology, engineering, and science solutions and services leader working to solve the world’s toughest challenges in the defense, intelligence, civil, and health markets. The company’s 43,000 employees support vital missions for government and commercial customers. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $13.7 billion for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.

Platinum Sponsors

Microsoft’s Detection and Response Team, comprised of Incident Response professionals across the globe, is an agile group of responders who dedicate 100% of their career to investigating, disrupting, and thwarting malicious activity from determined human adversaries and advanced actors specializing in targeted exploitation.

The team provides multiple services designed to identify and mitigate targeted activity not typically found by commodity AV or IDS technologies. Backed by the power of Microsoft’s advanced security product stack, and one of the largest threat intelligence networks globally, the Detection and Response Team is uniquely positioned to assist organizations both proactively and in times of crisis.

We reshape the digital economy so everyone — individuals, financial institutions, governments and businesses — can realize their ambitions. We work to connect and power an inclusive digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments and businesses realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company.

Hack The Box is an online platform allowing you to test your penetration testing skills and exchange ideas and methodologies with other members of similar interests. It contains several challenges that are constantly updated. Some of them simulating real-world scenarios and some of them leaning more towards a CTF style of challenge. As an individual, you can complete a simple challenge to prove your skills and then create an account, allowing you to connect to our private network (HTB Net) where several machines await for you to hack them. By hacking machines, you get points that help you advance in the rankings.

Silver Sponsors

For three decades, Protegrity has delivered innovative, data-centric protection for the most sensitive data of the largest brands on the planet. Our industry-leading solutions allow businesses to finally tap into the value of their data and accelerate digital transformation timelines – without jeopardizing individuals’ fundamental right to privacy. We free businesses from the constraints associated with accessing and leveraging data to create better customer experiences, make intelligence-supported decisions, and fuel innovation. To make this vision a reality, we protect sensitive data anywhere and everywhere to create secure data agility that aligns with the speed of modern business. Data knows no boundaries and Protegrity's technology is built for data ubiquity.

QuintessenceLabs is at the forefront of quantum cybersecurity, providing the strongest data protection to keep your information safe against today’s and tomorrow’s threats. Our capabilities extend from quantum key generation and crypto-agile key management through to quantum key distribution, helping you build a quantum-safe future for your organization.

Bronze Sponsor

GD Mission Systems provides mission-critical solutions to those who lead, serve, and protect our world. We are a technology integrator and original equipment manufacturer (OEM) with deep domain knowledge in ground, sea, air, space and cyber. We have industry-leading technologies and a unique combination of products and capabilities that are purpose-built for high-consequence C4ISR and cybersecurity applications. Our technology and products are often built into platforms and integrated systems to make them smarter. With more than 60 years of proven performance, our agility dramatically improves speed of capability to mission.

Training / Platform Partners

PIPELINE PROGRAM SPONSOR

Binary Ninja is an interactive decompiler, disassembler, debugger, and binary analysis platform built by reverse engineers, for reverse engineers. Developed with a focus on delivering a high-quality API for automation and a clean and usable GUI, Binary Ninja is in active use by malware analysts, vulnerability researchers, and software developers across the globe. Decompile software built for many common architectures on Windows, macOS, and Linux for a single price, or try out our limited (but free!) Cloud version at https://cloud.binary.ninja.

The U.S. Cyber Range provides cloud-based infrastructure for educators, industry, and others, allowing them to offer tailorable hands-on cybersecurity training and education in order to increase the number of skilled cybersecurity experts across all sectors.

MetaCTF is a corporate cybersecurity training startup. We help companies run and manage engaging and hands-on cybersecurity training for technical employees that reflects problems engineers encounter in their day job. Organizations also use our platform to recruit skilled employees and market their cybersecurity offerings. Since 2014, we have held over 100 events and trainings globally.

Point3 Security is building the most widely used talent identification portal for employers who see personnel competency as a competitive advantage. Via our ESCALATE ecosystem, we provide game-based challenges that identify and cultivate cybersecurity talent for professional organizations. This allows us to introduce the right talent to employers by making connections based on how well that individual’s demonstrable skills align with those an employer requires for open work roles. #ItTakesAHuman

PIPELINE PROGRAM SPONSOR

Launched in 1989 as a cooperative for information security thought leadership, it is SANS’ ongoing mission to empower cyber security professionals with the practical skills and knowledge they need to make our world a safer place. We fuel this effort with high-quality training, certifications, scholarship academies, degree programs, cyber ranges, and resources to meet the needs of every cyber professional. Our data, research, and the top minds in cybersecurity collectively ensure that individuals and organizations have the actionable education and support they need.

Education Partners

Dakota State University (DSU) is located in Madison, S.D. Founded in 1881, DSU offers undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral programs through its colleges of arts and sciences, business and information systems, computer and cyber sciences, and education. DSU has a special focus on the development, application, implications, and impacts of computing, information technologies and cyber security in all areas of human endeavor. DSU has received multiple Center of Academic Excellence designations in education, research and regional resource development from the U.S. National Security Agency and U.S. Department of Homeland Security. DSU is home to the Madison Cyber Labs (MadLabs®), a cyber R&D hub with labs and institutes that explore and advance technology applications, workforce development, business expansion, economic growth, and policy improvement across multiple disciplines and fields.

Carnegie Mellon University - Information Networking Institute

Developers and refiners, hackers and scholars, future CEOs and founders – find your spark of genius at Carnegie Mellon University's Information Networking Institute (INI). The INI offers master's degrees in information networking, security, artificial intelligence engineering -information security and mobile and IoT engineering.

Fiscal Partner

Founded in 2012, the Women’s Society of Cyberjutsu (WSC) is a National 501(c)3 non-profit community, focused on empowering women to succeed in the cybersecurity industry. WSC’s mission is to advance women in cybersecurity careers by providing programs and partnerships that promote hands-on training, networking, education, mentoring, resource-sharing, and other professional opportunities. WSC serves thousands of women, men, and girls across the globe by bringing awareness to, and advancing careers in, cybersecurity. The WSC community includes information security professionals, IT professionals, programmers, computer scientists, and engineers, as well as women wanting to explore and join the field. Recognizing the importance of encouraging girls to embrace a future in STEM-related professions through its Cyberjutsu Girls Academy, WSC provides a unique hands-on curriculum focused on securing information technology.

Outreach Partners

AUSCF is a non-profit association for cyber professionals from the military, other federal agencies (e.g., DHS, FBI), and members of the civilian community and industry who also serve in the interest of national security within cyberspace. We provide education to our members, the public, the greater cyber community, and local and national lawmakers on cyber matters as it relates to U.S. national security. AUSCF advocates for positive changes to law and policy that better serve our membership and help to reduce the gaps between private and public cybersecurity efforts.

BlackGirlsHack was created to share knowledge and resources to help black girls and women breakthrough barriers to careers in information security and cyber security. The vision for Black Girls Hack (BGH) is to provide resources, training, mentoring, and access to black girls and women and increase representation and diversity in the cyber security field and in the executive suites.

Our mission is to achieve the consistent representation of women and underrepresented minorities in the cybersecurity industry through programs designed to diversify, educate, and empower. Cyversity tackles the ‘great cyber divide’ with scholarship opportunities, diverse workforce development, innovative outreach, and mentoring programs.

The iKeepSafe mission is to provide a safe digital landscape for children, schools, and families by supporting the protection of student privacy while advancing learning in a digital culture. To support this mission, we provide data privacy certifications to technology companies, educational resources to schools, and information to the community. iKeepSafe is the proud host of the NICE (National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education) K12 Cybersecurity Education Conference.

The Information Systems Security Association (ISSA)^® is a not-for-profit, international organization of information security professionals and practitioners dedicated to advancing individual growth, managing technology risk, and protecting critical information and infrastructure. It provides educational forums, publications, and peer interaction opportunities that enhance the knowledge, skill, and professional growth of its members.

Raices Cyber Org is a Hispanic Association in Cyber Security and Technology (HACS). Founded in 2021 to support the LatinX and Hispanic community we are a fiscally sponsored 501(c)3 non-profit. "The Stronger the Roots the Stronger the Tree" is the mantra behind Raíces. Our mission is to encourage and support the Hispanic and Latino cyber and technology community to achieve greater representation in the world. We are doing that with our four main pillars. Continued support and encouragement to and from the community, education for all career levels, access to valuable resources, constructive networking and the forming of STRONG bonds ("Roots").

Our mission is to create a world where no veteran pursuing a career in cybersecurity goes unemployed. We do this, first and foremost, through a world-class community of over 5,300 veterans working in or transitioning into cybersecurity. All of them have been in the shoes of those coming after them. Then we add first-rate training resources from our strategic partners, a jobs board from companies that want your talent, and provide our members the mentorship to get there.

The National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) builds strong public/private partnerships to create and implement broad-reaching education and awareness efforts to empower users at home, work, and school with the information they need to keep themselves, their organizations, their systems, and their sensitive information safe and secure online and encourage a culture of cybersecurity.

For more information visit https://www.linkedin.com/company/national-cyber-security-alliance.

Media Partners

We’re a cybersecurity-focused news service and a trusted, independent voice in the marketplace. We deliver concise, accessible, and relevant content, separating the signal from the noise in a burgeoning industry, overloaded with information and competing messages. Our news products are created by real people—analysts, experts, and writers with their ears to the ground. Of course, we use automation and create our own technologies to help us along the way, but the news we share has been carefully curated by people working hard and thinking about what matters to the users of cyberspace.

CTOvision, a division of OODA Loop, is an online reference for enterprise technologists. Published by Bob Gourley, and driven by a passionate group of writers and researchers with enterprise IT experience, CTOvision provides six newsletters including a daily CTO update, a daily FedCyber report, a weekly CTO summary, a weekly Government Big Data report, and several other specialty products.

ITSP magazine is a free online publication that focuses on technology, cybersecurity, privacy, the InfoSec community and the influence that all this has on our everyday lives – as businesses, individuals, and the society in which we live. We are At the Intersection of Technology, Cybersecurity, and Society™.

Simply Cyber brings information and security-related content to help IT or Information Security professionals take their careers further, faster. Current cyber security industry topics and techniques are explored to promote a career in the field. Topics cover offense, defense, governance, risk, compliance, privacy, education, certification, and conferences; all with the intent of professional development.

Cyber Insecurity is a digest of relevant and timely cybersecurity news stories, career information, and discussion about cyber security spanning a wide range of valuable information. Topics such as how to hack, how to conduct penetration testing & red team concepts, and how to be an expert pentester/hacker in the modern cybersecurity landscape. Blue team and cyber defense topics such as MITRE, threat hunting, purple teaming, and security operations concepts so that you are better prepared to defend against modern cybersecurity threats. We regularly bring industry leaders from a wide variety of backgrounds including threat intelligence, risk management, hacking, CISO's, and other cybersecurity professionals. Hundreds have entered into the career field or advanced their career based on our in-depth resume and LinkedIn information, or the experts we’ve introduced them to.