05 — competitions

CTF & Competitions

[NCL]

National Cyber League

Blue Team Competitor. Participated in individual and team game brackets covering log analysis, network traffic analysis, password cracking, web application security, and digital forensics challenges.

Blue Team Log Analysis Network Forensics Web Security
Aug 2024
— May 2025
CTF
[DOE]

U.S. Department of Energy — CyberForce Competition

Competed in the DOE CyberForce Competition, a national collegiate cybersecurity challenge focused on defending critical infrastructure systems against real-world adversarial scenarios and red team attacks.

Blue Team Critical Infrastructure Incident Response Defence
November
2025
Federal CTF
[NCL]

0xFunCTF-2026

Blue Team Competitor. Participated in team game covering log analysis, network traffic analysis, password cracking, cryptography, web application security, and digital forensics challenges, CTFS.

Blue Team Forensic OSINT Cyrpotography
Feb 2026
CTF
[NCL]

NCAE Cyber games

Blue Team Competitor. Participated in individual and team game brackets covering log analysis, network traffic analysis, password cracking, web application security, and digital forensics challenges. Very similar to Cyberforce but no prep time.

[NCAE] NCAE Cyber Games page
Blue Team Log Analysis Network Forensics Web Security
February 2026
CTF

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Competition Profile

4 Competitions
Blue Team Focus
Federal DOE CyberForce
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NCL Fall Season 2026
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UIC Capture the flame in April 2026
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DOE CyberForce 2026
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