On Saturday October 22, 2022, the SPC Cybersecurity Club – TitanSec, competed in the Raymond James Capture the Flag competition, at Raymond James Financial Headquarters in St. Petersburg, Florida. The SPC CTF team was comprised of the following CCIT Cybersecurity students: Team Captain Derrick Scholz, Eric Rau, and Austen Reece. Faculty mentors were CCIT Instructor-In-Charge, Laura Malave, and CCIT Adjunct Instructor Ryan Irving. Additional SPC staff in attendance were Dean Jimmy Chang, Sondra Seiter and Joe Benavides.

Our CCIT Cybersecurity students competed with 14 participating teams, which included: UCF, UF, USF, FSU, Texas A&M, Penn State, Saint Leo, University of Tampa, Florida A&M, Purdue University, Florida Tech, and University of Alabama. The theme of this year’s CTF is “Watchers at the Wall” meaning an emphasis on blue team concepts. The CTF competition included cybersecurity challenges in the topics of: Web Exploits, Cryptography, Digital Forensics, Data Recovery, System Exploitation, Reverse Engineering, Physical Security, Mobile Exploits, and Current Events.

The Raymond James Capture the Flag competition is designed to continue strengthening the talent pipeline between Raymond James and colleges and universities. Raymond James wishes to expose students to the challenges faced in the financial services industry and identify talent for potential internship opportunities in the Raymond James Information Security and Infrastructure organization.

The winning team was given a $10,000 prize to be evenly distributed between the students. Second and third place teams received $5,000 and $2,500, respectively. Thanks to Tarpon SGA and Jason Nicholson, Julia Meyer, Tyler Brescia, Dean Jimmy Chang for the continued support.

Students interested in learning more about TitanSec, the SPC Cybersecurity club, should contact Club Faculty Advisor: Laura Malave, Malave.laura@spcollege.edu or TitanSec: TitanSec@spcollege.edu