Well. At my school today, there was this little program called Cyber Defense, where we were given a computer (a XP virtual machine) and were told to secure 13 vulnerabilities that it contained. Ohhhh joy. We had a total of six hours to do this. Unfortunatley, we were 1 minute past the deadline, but were placed 2nd. To be honest, it was quite fun.
There were a LOT of mistakes, and I mean come on, it was only a BETA testing, we had no clue what we were up against. What we were expecting was a continuous string of attacks, so our first protocol was to cut off all communications, and toughen up security. Unfortunately, that led us to messing with the wrong services (like Telephony) and managed to crash our computer, it’s Windows Update, and somehow, Internet Explorer. We got them to work again, but we just decided to restart the whole thing with only 1 hour remaining. So we did. And we fixed all the patches, and the antivirus, and we fixed 11/13 vulnerabilities by the end of the 4:30 deadline. The only reason we didn’t get all 13/13 was because we fixed those other two, but the “Scorebot” wouldn’t load, and the reboot after installing some of the hotfixes took a minute too long. Well, there’s always next year, and this time, we know what we’re up for.
So lesson learned here? UPDATE, UPDATE, UPDATE! Oh, and run some anti-virus too. 
Oh and the worst part is that it wasn’t totally our fault we lost. First off, Austin Kochs misinformed us. Secondly the internet firewall (MHS) didn’t allow Windows Update. Big Problem? And third OBSAA’s Computer was too slow
(Well that was sort of our fault)
but yeah I definitely agree that it was tons of fun.
Yeah. There were a lot of problems, but we did well. Obsaa’s computer wasn’t actually bad at all. I liked the performance it provided