Fostering academic exploration in all areas of cyber security, defense, and response.
We are a passionate group of students dedicated to making a positive impact in the world of cyber security. Our goal is to train the next generation of cyber defenders by providing education, training, and hands-on experiences in digital forensics, incident response, and cyber defense; and to equip our students with the necessary skills and knowledge to protect individuals and organizations worldwide.
Shout-out to all the students who attended our C2 Detection for Threat Hunting last week hosted by Arturo Yundt-Pacheco!
We learned the techniques and tactics attackers use to control and communicate with compromised machines, and how to stop them in their tracks!
Thank you for attending our Threat Intelligence workshop last ̶l̶a̶s̶t̶ Thursday, hosted by BJ Anderson!
We explored how the pros use threat intelligence to identify, track, and hunt down hackers. And provided members hands-on practice to jump-start their careers in hunting the bad guys.
Join us tomorrow at 7:00pm to learn how Honeypots and Honeynets are used and deployed in corporate networks to trick and trap attackers!
Last Thursday, we hosted our OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) for Threat Hunting workshop led by Celina Rodriguez!
Students learned all about real-world methodologies and used their skills in a mock investigation to gather intel. We went over:
Thank you to all the students who attended, we'll see you text week!
Thank you to everyone who showed up to our Threat Hunting with SIEMs workshop!
We explored the fundamentals of threat hunting and SIEMs while giving students a hands-on, safe environment to work with real-world malware.
Students practiced parsing network traffic with Zeek, analyzed data with Malcolm, learned how to create custom Suricata rules, and discovered the value of Sigma rules in modern detection engineering.
Our next workshop is this Thursday at 7:00 pm. See y'all there!
Thank you to the awesome students who joined us for the Linux Fundamentals session this Saturday, hosted by BJ Anderson!
We explored the foundations of operating systems, introduced popular Linux distributions, and got hands-on with Linux commands, helping students get that initial foothold into their cyber careers.
Shout-out to everyone who attended our Resources Workshop hosted by Wyatt Skov!
We broke down the essential resources to get you further in your career. Learn with your peers and interact in fun demos at our workshops!
To find out what essential skills you need for a career in cybersecurity, come to our workshops every Thursday!
Thank you for attending the Network Fundamentals for Threat Hunting Workshop that Avi Bagchi led last Thursday! With a total of 85 attendees, this workshop was an absolute success!
The goal of this workshop was to cover the essentials of computer networking and help students detect malicious traffic out of many benign entries. We covered some of the most important and common networking protocols, what services they support, the OSI layers they function on, and how they can be exploited. Finally we let students put their skills to test with a live hands-on demo/practice session.
We're excited to announce a huge milestone for our organization: we are now officially recognized as a Texas nonprofit corporation! This achievement marks a significant step toward our mission to train the next generation of cyber defenders!
As a registered nonprofit, we're better positioned to expand our efforts to:
We never imagined when we started just a year ago, we'd be here. It wouldn't be possible without our members and officers!
After a strong qualifying round, CDRU and UT Dallas proudly competed in our first-ever Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition!
Out of approximately 20 well-established universities from across the southern region, we placed an impressive 5th overall. An incredible achievement for our debut appearance.
Next year, here we come!
Interested in joining us or have questions? We'd love to hear from you!
