National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (1st Place)
After years of training and preparation, I competed on the main roster for the University of Central Florida at the 2024 National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition - and we won. My primary responsibilities were to harden Linux systems, perform active response on compromised systems, file incident reports with the competition organizers, and write corporate policy documents to expand on our security strategy. We were assigned an extremely difficult redteam that constantly breached our defenses and required me to think on-the-fly to creatively defend our Linux endpoints.