Digital Forensics and Cyber Security Center
Open Cyber Challenge Platform
The Open Cyber Challenge Platform (OCCP) was a project funded by the National Science Foundation in 2012. Cyber challenges, where groups of students defend/attack/investigate a network and/or data center with realistic attacks, have proven to be both wonderful recruiting tools in high school and college competition events, and effective teaching tools in academic and training courses that use them. The OCCP was designed to be:
- Able to provide controlled scenarios that teach, demonstrate, and evaluate skills in cyber security areas including Network Defense, Penetration Testing, Incident Response, Malware Analysis, Digital Forensics, and Secure Programming.
- Reasonable in terms of cost of required hardware, and in terms of required technical installation and maintenance expertise, for a wide variety of organizations, including high schools, colleges, companies, and government agencies to use in courses and/or conduct challenge events.
- Easily extensible to allow the community to post new challenges and scenarios that can be performed using the base OCCP.
The OCCP project is now concluded and is no longer supported. While this project was innovative for its time, it has been superseded by more recent development tools.
