Sponsors & Volunteers

2025 SECCDC Sponsors

We are actively seeking sponsorship partners to help support the SECCDC 2025. During the 17 year span of the tournament, the SECCDC has produced six champions and ten top-three podium finishes at the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (NCDCC.) We accept sponsorship in the form of money, time, hardware, software, and a variety of in-kind donations.  As a sponsor SECCDC enables companies such as yourself to showcase what makes you stand-out among other potential employers.  

2024 SECCDC Sponsors

We are grateful to our 2024 sponsorship partners that made SECCDC 2024  possible. 

  • 2024 SECCDC Titanium Sponsor: Raytheon RTX
  • 2024 SECCDC Platinum Sponsors: Amazon AWS, Florida Tech
  • 2024 SECCDC Gold Sponsors: NSA, Target, Battelle, Cisco Network Academy
  • 2024 SECCDC Silver Sponsors: Palo Alto Networks, Fortra

Sponsorship Levels

Benefits

Silver

$5K

Gold

$10K

Platinum

$15K

Titanium

$25K

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Recruiting dinner tickets   2 4 8
Volunteer positions (White or Red)   2 4 8
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Custom Requests

  • Custom challenge/inject development at event
  • Custom software integration into event

Volunteers 

  • White Team: Competition officials that observe team performance in their competition area and evaluate team performance and rule compliance.
  • Black Team: Competition support members that provide technical support, pick up and deliver communications, and provide overall administrative  
  • Red: Network penetration testing professionals simulating external hackers attempting to gain unauthorized access to competition teams’ systems.