UGA School of Computing’s Hack Pack Team Advances To NCAE Cyber Games National Invitational

UGA SoC's Hack Pack Team celebrating their win

This spring, UGA’s School of Computing’s The Hack Pack team placed second in the Southeast at the National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity (NCAE-C) Cyber Game and is advancing to the national invitational this  April.

Throughout six hours of competition, as part of the blue team, the Hack Pack defended critical infrastructure in a high-stakes, intense competition against the opposing red team. The red team launched many attacks across multiple platforms, including: FTP, DNS, ICMP, Web, and Postgres.