Here’s what we’ve been up to!

Fall 2025

Hitcon CTF

  • Virtual Competition
  • Challenges focused on realistic incident response and utilizing subtle clues in challenges to solve them

Tech Savvy Expo

  • Collaborated with Women in Technology, Cyber Unit, and the Robotics club to host an engaging event with cybersecurity workshops.
  • Networked and introduced cybersecurity topics and challenges to new members.
  • Ran a jeopardy game, hosted an OSINT workshop, and did ran presentations.

Summer 2025

Gold Rush Gauntlet CTF

  • Hosted the second annual GGCTF, with challenges made by Cyberhawk members
  • 80 registered members– 25 teams competed virtually this year

DoD Cyber Sentinel Challenge

  • Virtual CTF hosted by correlation one and the DoD
  • Challenges mimicked mission-driven cybersecurity events and real-world scenarios

Spring 2025

RSA Conference

  • Four students traveled to the RSA Conference in California, and a valuable experience networking with industry professionals

SummitCTF

  • Notable Placements: 1st and 2nd Place
  • Five teams of five individuals traveled to Virginia Tech to compete

NCL

  • Notable Placements: Top UNG team placed 17th out of 5,000 teams
  • 52 students competed in the individual game
  • 27 teams competed in the team game

NCX

  • Notable Placements: UNG CyberHawks Elite placed 3rd in the National Cyber Combat Exercise
  • Thirty students competed in the National Cyber Exercise hosted by the NSA in MD
  • These challenges focused on simulating real world threats dealt with by the DoD, with categories including: cryptography, forensics, policy, networking, data analysis, and more

SECCDC Regionals

  • 8 competitiors traveled to Tampa Florida to compete at USF in the Southeast Region
  • Challenges focused on maintaining confidentiality, integrity, and availability of services and systems, while actively being attacked by a live red team, and dealing with in-person injects

SECCDC Qualifiers

  • Notable Placements: 4th place; moved on to SECCDC Regionals
  • Challenges focused on maintaining confidentiality, integrity, and availability of services and systems, while actively being attacked by a live red team

Fall 2024

NCL

  • Notable Placements: Top UNG Team Placed 49th out of 5,000 teams
  • 30 teams competed
  • 54 individuals competed

NSA Codebreakers

  • Placement: UNG placed 8th out of 582 schools across the nation
  • Features a realistic problem set modeled around the NSA’s mission
  • Designed to challenge participants with applied technical scenarios
  • Hands-on opportunity for students to build reverse-engineering and low-level code analysis skills

CPTC Southeast Regionals

  • 6 competitiors traveled to Augusta University to compete in the Southeast Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition
  • Focused on realistic penetration testing engagements
  • Teams act as consultants, performing assessments on simulated client networks
  • Emphasized both technical skills (exploitation, enumeration, reporting) and professional skills (communication, client interaction, presentations)

Hacker Halted

  • Students traveled to Atlanta to participate in the hacker halted conference and network with employers and participate in trainings

UND CTF

  • Placement: 2nd Place
  • Four Students traveled to compete in the UND CTF after qualifying the prior month
  • In additon to the CTF, there was a two day conference hosted by the University of North Dakota

Bsides Atlanta

  • 10 students traveled to volunteer and participate in bsides Atlanta
  • Engaged in workshops like lockpicking, king of the hill networking events, and OSINT challenges

National Cyber Summit

  • Fourty students traveled to Huntsville Alabama to attend the National Cyber Summit
  • Students participated in job fairs, talked with employers about internships, general cyber questions, participated in resume reviews, and attended cybersecurity workshops.

UND CTF Qualifiers

  • One team of four students competed in a two day online CTF to qualify for finals at the University of North Dakota.
  • The team placed within the top 10, and moved on to finals
  • These challenges focused mainly on OSINT, file manipulation, networking, log analysis, and cryptography

ImaginaryCTF

  • An online competition that accomdates a variety of skill levels
  • Covered a wide variety of cybersecurity categories, including cryptography, forensics, web, reverse engineering, and pwn

Summer 2024

OS CTF

  • An online summer CTF that focused on a variety of OSINT challenges

Gold Rush Gauntlet CTF

  • First ever annual GGCTF hosted by the UNG Cyberhawks
  • Challenges made by Cyberhawks leadership
  • Competitiors were members of the Cyberhawks, or students at UNG

Spring 2024

NCX

  • Notable Placement: UNG took third overall in NCX
  • Thirty students competed in the National Cyber Exercise hosted by the NSA in MD
  • These challenges focused on simulating real world threats dealt with by the DoD, with categories including: cryptography, forensics, policy, networking, data analysis, and more

NCL

  • Challenges are based on real-world cybersecurity scenarios, making it directly applicable to careers in the field
  • Focuses on network traffic analysis, cryptography, password cracking, forensics, and open-source intelligence

SummitCTF

  • A student-run collegiate capture-the-flag competition hosted by Virginia Tech’s cybersecurity community
  • Features challenges in reverse engineering, cryptography, web exploitation, forensics, and OSINT

SECCDC Qualifiers

  • Student teams act as the blue team, defending a simulated corporate network from live red team attacks
  • Tests skills in incident response, intrusion detection, system hardening, and maintaining business operations

Fall 2023

NSA Codebreaker

  • Placement: UNG placed 2nd out of 448 schools across the nation
  • Features a realistic problem set modeled around the NSA’s mission
  • Designed to challenge participants with applied technical scenarios
  • Hands-on opportunity for students to build reverse-engineering and low-level code analysis skills

NCL

  • Challenges are based on real-world cybersecurity scenarios, making it directly applicable to careers in the field
  • Focuses on network traffic analysis, cryptography, password cracking, forensics, and open-source intelligence

CPTC Central Regionals

  • Students traveled to Tennessee Tech to compete in the Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition Regionals
    • Focused on realistic penetration testing engagements
  • Teams act as consultants, performing assessments on simulated client networks
  • Emphasized both technical skills (exploitation, enumeration, reporting) and professional skills (communication, client interaction, presentations)

Spring 2022

NCL

  • Challenges are based on real-world cybersecurity scenarios, making it directly applicable to careers in the field
  • Focuses on network traffic analysis, cryptography, password cracking, forensics, and open-source intelligence

Fall 2022

NSA Codebreaker

  • Placement: UNG placed 6th out of 445 schools across the nation
  • Features a realistic problem set modeled around the NSA’s mission
  • Designed to challenge participants with applied technical scenarios
  • Hands-on opportunity for students to build reverse-engineering and low-level code analysis skills

NCL

  • Challenges are based on real-world cybersecurity scenarios, making it directly applicable to careers in the field
  • Focuses on network traffic analysis, cryptography, password cracking, forensics, and open-source intelligence

Spring 2021

NCL

  • Challenges are based on real-world cybersecurity scenarios, making it directly applicable to careers in the field
  • Focuses on network traffic analysis, cryptography, password cracking, forensics, and open-source intelligence

NCX

  • Students competed in the National Cyber Exercise hosted by the NSA in MD
  • These challenges focused on simulating real world threats dealt with by the DoD, with categories including: cryptography, forensics, policy, networking, data analysis, and more

Fall 2021

NSA Codebreaker

  • Placement: UNG placed 2nd out of 631 schools across the nation
  • Features a realistic problem set modeled around the NSA’s mission
  • Designed to challenge participants with applied technical scenarios
  • Hands-on opportunity for students to build reverse-engineering and low-level code analysis skills

NCL

  • Challenges are based on real-world cybersecurity scenarios, making it directly applicable to careers in the field
  • Focuses on network traffic analysis, cryptography, password cracking, forensics, and open-source intelligence

Spring 2021

NCL

  • Challenges are based on real-world cybersecurity scenarios, making it directly applicable to careers in the field
  • Focuses on network traffic analysis, cryptography, password cracking, forensics, and open-source intelligence

Fall 2020

NSA Codebreaker

  • Placement: UNG placed 1st out of 452 schools across the nation
  • Features a realistic problem set modeled around the NSA’s mission
  • Designed to challenge participants with applied technical scenarios
  • Hands-on opportunity for students to build reverse-engineering and low-level code analysis skills

Spring 2019

NCL

  • Challenges are based on real-world cybersecurity scenarios, making it directly applicable to careers in the field
  • Focuses on network traffic analysis, cryptography, password cracking, forensics, and open-source intelligence

Fall 2018

NSA Codebreaker

  • Placement: UNG placed 1st out of 532 schools across the nation
  • Features a realistic problem set modeled around the NSA’s mission
  • Designed to challenge participants with applied technical scenarios
  • Hands-on opportunity for students to build reverse-engineering and low-level code analysis skills

    2018

  • NSA Codebreaker 2018