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Aggie Secure
Engineering Student Serv & Academic Prog; TAMU; https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14641/514; Department of Defense
Implement an Aggies Invent weekend for up to 60 students that focuses on design challenges prepared by the NSA.
Aggies Invent Challenge
Multidisciplinary Engineering; TAMU; https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14641/514; DOD-National Security Agency
Implement an Aggies Invent weekend for up to 60 students that focuses on design challenges prepared by the NSA.
Aggies Invent Challenge
Multidisciplinary Engineering; TAMU; https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14641/514; DOD-National Security Agency
Implement an Aggies Invent weekend for up to 60 students that focuses on design challenges prepared by the NSA.
Texas A&M University Aggies Secure Event
Computer Science; TAMU; https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14641/514; DOD-National Security Agency
1. Overview: Several times a semester Texas A&M Engineering students participate in an Aggies Invent competition. One of the goals of Aggies Invent is for student teams to rapidly create a working prototype over the course of a weekend to solve an ongoing engineering challenge. A problem that occurs during these rapid prototyping sessions is that the security of the product is often not at the forefront of each team’s mind. This issue has led to the idea for Aggies Secure. The Aggies Secure competition will take the more developed projects and prototypes from previous Aggies Invent competitions and give them to teams of Cybersecurity Students to do vulnerability analysis on. Each vulnerability found will be required to be paired with a write-up detailing the vulnerability and potential impact as well as potential remediations for the vulnerability. The overall goal for the competition is to give students experience in finding vulnerabilities in products and to make other engineering students more aware of the cybersecurity pitfalls that can occur during rapid prototyping. The competition will also bring both communities of students together and foster collaboration among the two. 2. Competition Structure: Prior to the Aggies Secure event one or more projects will be selected from the EnMed medical device Aggies Invent competition starting July 6th or the recently finished Assistive Technology Aggies Invent competition. At the beginning of the Aggies Secure event on October 26th each selected project will be presented to the student teams. The size of each student team will be 4-6. The student teams will then have the weekend to find and document as many vulnerabilities in these products as possible. Students will have full access to each project. This includes any source code, documentation, and working prototypes. Where possible each prototype will be replicated for each team so that they all have separate copies. During the competition each team will have access to tools to check out to aid in their vulnerability research. This can include items such as spectrum analyzers, multi-meters, oscilloscopes, or other instruments or tools (purchased for the event or provided by the sponsor). At the conclusion of the competition, each team will be required to turn in a report detailing each vulnerability found along with proposed remediations for each vulnerability. Each team will also present their findings along with any proof-of-concept demos to a panel of judges. Judging will be based on the number of vulnerabilities identified and demonstrated, the severity of each vulnerability found, and the efficacy of the proposed remediations. The scoring will be weighted more heavily towards the severity of each vulnerability rather than the number found. Each Aggies Invent team whose prototypes are being used for Aggies Secure will be invited to the presentations. Each Aggies Invent team will also be given the reports and proof of concept code after the end of the competition. The top three teams will receive a prize.