White Team

• Serve as impartial on-site evaluators for executing of blue team activities.
• Verify injection scenarios are completed.
• Provide judging services for competition activities.
• Can not have outside involvement or conflicting interest with any blue team.
• Are industry partners or sponsors.

Blue Team

• Each blue team will consist of college students from the same institution.
• Will consist of no more than eight team members during the competition.
• OR,
• May consist of eight team members and one team captain.
• Students from graduate and / or undergraduate programs who are participating in the cyber defense competition.
• Members sign a participation agreement, including statement of ethics and a profession conduct statement.
• Students must have completed a minimum of one semester in the participating institutions networking or security curriculum.
• Are not employed in any security role prior to enrollment into the participating institutions security or networking program.
• Students maintain a minimum of ½ time status (minimum of six credit hours) during the term the competition is conducted.
  

Participating Blue Teams

• Baker College of Flint
  
• Washtenaw Community College
• Davenport University - Kalamazoo
• Michigan Tech

Red Team

• Network penetration testers from industry.
• Scan and map the network of each competition team.
• Assess the security of each team network.
• Approved by the competition director.
• Capture the flag on each Blue Team network (source code acquisition, financial info, lose points).
• Follows rules of engagement for the competition.
• Objective is to penetrate each blue teams network.

Gold Team

• Administration and staff of the cyber defense competition.
• May issue or control the timing of injects.
• Manage event activities and events such as:
  
  Greet people
  Organize food, awards
  Assist in setting up the competition
  Assist with hotel / travel arrangements
  Can be members of participating schools

Chief Judge

• Final authority on scoring decisions or issues relating to equity or fairness of events or activities.
• Can not be from any institution that has a competing Blue team or have any interest in any team outcome.
• Can not be a current, previous or prospective academic advisory board member of any blue team institution.
• Ideally, should be a representative from industry.

Competition Director

• Coordinates activities during the event.
• Works with industry partners to orchestrate the event.
• Approves the Chief Judge.
• Approves responsibility assignments to white and gold team members.
• Has the authority to dismiss any team, team member or visitor for violation of competition rules, inappropriate or unprofessional conduct.

Faculty Representative

• A faculty member or representative of the participating Blue Team.
• May not provide any instruction to their representative Blue Team members during the competition hours.
• May assist in competition labors as directed.
• May not be involved in any scoring or decisions that involves a participating institution or blue team.