About The Event
PCDC 2025 will be held on April 12-14, 2025. Ten teams will be invited to compete on each day of the event with high schools competing on Saturday, colleges on Sunday, and the pros on Monday. CyberPatriot will be used as the high school qualifier and the Southeast Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition for the collegiate qualifier. We will once again be hosting Cyber in the Middle (CITM) and also the Southeast Region Collegiate HackWarz on Saturday April 12.
2025 Scenario - To Be Determinded...
The High School Teams that competed in 2024 were: AAST, Academic Magnet, Ashley Ridge, Cane Bay, Clover, Hanahan, Homeschool STEM, South Aiken, and Swofford Collegiate Teams that competed: Charleston Southern University, Citadel, Clemson, ECPI, Horry Georgetown Technical College, South Carolina State University, Trident Technical College, University of North Carolina Wilmington, University of South Carolina, and the US Naval AcademyThe Professional Teams that competed were: CACI, Dominion Energy, ECS, SRC, and SC Army & Air National Guard
Overview
Promoting cyber security education and awareness
PCDC is an event for the promotion of Cyber Security education and awareness. Competition energizes local high schools and colleges to develop invigorating and focused curriculum for the technical needed in today’s fast-paced and challenging cyber environment. A brochure for the event is posted in the Documents Section
Competition is an all-day event followed by awards presentations and a networking opportunity where representatives will be available to discuss employment possibilites. Each day brings a new set of competitors to the field allowing South Carolina high schools, regional colleges, and cyber security professionals to go head-to-head. The schedule is posted in the Documents Section
Each 6-member team must work together as a real company would to defend their network from red team attacks while maintaining crucial business services and responding to customer and administrative demands. Winners are the most successful at thwarting the effects of hackers while keeping their businesses online and functioning.
2024 Winners
Congratulations to these winning teams!
High School
- Home School STEM
- Academic Magnet
- Clover
College
- Clemson
- The Citadel
- Horry Georgetown Technical College
Pro
- ECS
- CACI
- SRC
Southeast Regional Collegiate HackWarz Champion
- The Citadel
- University of South Carolina
- ECPI
Event Venue
PCDC 2025 will be held on 12-14 April 2025 at Trident Technical College in North Charleston in building 920. A map to the venue is posted in the Documents Section. You can download/view the map directly by Clicking Here.
THANK YOU to our 2024 sponsors!!!
The competition, awards, scholarships and prizes are made possible through the generous support of many industry and institutional sponsors and over 100 volunteers, as well as many cyber security industry supporters & volunteers both in South Carolina & throughout the United States. The AFCEA SC Low Country Chapter wishes to recognize the generosity and continuing support of our many Corporate Sponsors who make the 2024 Palmetto Cyber Defense Competition possible.
