2026 Northeast CCDC

鈩癸笍 These are my personal thoughts, and they do not represent the official viewpoints of National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition or the Northeast Collegiate Cyber Defense League. 2026 Season When we started developing this season we did not have a host selected. Luckily, we have a connection at Middlesex Community College and the school was excited to host the competition. Here鈥檚 the thing: they鈥檝e never had a team compete and are a community college. (Four-year colleges 馃槄) Due to the delayed host selection the black team took the liberty of selecting the main competition theme. Initially, we were thinking of doing something purely in the restaurant industry, but it lacked CCDC worthy technology (sorry no smart air fryers). We settled on an MSP (ChefOps) that serves the hospitality industry. ...

March 28, 2026 路 Andrew

AWS RDS IAM Authentication

This guide will walk you through setting up AWS IAM authentication on your RDS Database, setup attribute based access control on your Identity Center roles. Then connect to that database using IAM with CLI and DataGrip clients. ...

July 24, 2025 路 Andrew

CloudFront SPA: Building an Automated CI/CD Pipeline

Automate the building and deployment of static frontend applications using an Argo Workflows pipeline and AWS CloudFront. Don鈥檛 run your frontend applications on servers or containers. Move your project to a content distribution network (CDN) and gain the following benefits: Increase application responsiveness Reduced operational overhead Improved Security ...

June 14, 2025 路 Andrew

2025 Northeast CCDC

Annual Northeast CCDC black team competition notes and infrastructure details. This covers how we set up the environment, qualifier and regional competitions (services and injects) and then some fun stats we collected along the way. ...

April 1, 2025 路 Andrew

CloudGoat SNS Secrets

Warning Spoilers Ahead! This is a write up the CloudGoat scenario sns_secrets and was created by the one and only Tyler Ramsbey. Another walkthrough of the scenario can be found on TryHackMe which uses the Pacu SNS modules, mines uses the AWS CLI. At time of writing this the scenario is still a GitHub Pull Request but its ready! ...

June 4, 2024 路 Andrew