Paul Buonopane
Humans are bad at passwords. It's true. We're terrible at making them, we're terrible at remembering them, and we're terrible at assessing their quality. It's difficult to emphasize just how terrible we are without demonstrating just how easy they are to break—so that's exactly what Paul Buonopane is going to do.
John "Mako" McGill
In the military, Mako couldn't get the cyber job he wanted. His first cyber competition left him feeling humiliated, too. What matters, though, isn't how many times you get knocked down—it's how many times you get back up. Read to discover how our resident shark, Mako, swam his way to the top!
John "Mako" McGill
(Third in a five-part series.)
Student leadership will come and go. Faculty leadership can see the big picture but cannot push student volunteers to do anything they don't want to do. Before pairing a faculty sponsor with a club, decide on a leadership style you'd like to foster together, to ensure longterm club survival. Mako shows you how.
Paul Buonopane
Improving your Network Traffic Analysis techniques can mean the difference between spending hours on a challenge and solving it in 5 minutes. Paul Buonopane demonstrates how to filter large packet captures in Wireshark and reassemble fragmented files from packet data.
John "Mako" McGill
Parsing log files is an art form, not unlike sculpting—"cut away all the parts of the wood block that are not the bear." In place of an axe and knife, Mako shows us how to whittle the bear from the log using grep, regex, awk, sed, uniq, sort, and pipe!
WebWitch
WebWitch doesn't like being in front of an audience and doesn't know everything about cybersecurity. Those aren't the reasons they became a Player Ambassador. Luckily for us, their reasons were far more compelling than their fears!
John "Mako" McGill
(Second in a five-part series.)
The difference between a hangout and a club is purpose. To gain official recognition as a club, you'll need to clarify that purpose in a charter. Mako likens it to an "elevator pitch" for the group and shares tips and examples of what to include.
John "Mako" McGill
How can we crack these cryptic ciphers? Fortunately, we don't have to supplicate before any ancient world-swallowing, madness-inducing deities. (Although, Mako does feel like losing his mind a little during the NCL games.) Instead, Mako introduces key markers and tricks for identifying encoding schemes!
Paul Buonopane
OSINT is a broad category in the real world—and an ethical gray area. What types of challenges await you in a timed competition like NCL? Paul Buonopane provides a peek behind the curtain and shares his favorite advanced search operators, metadata viewers, and real-world OSINT gathering tools. Use them responsibly!
JeanaByte
There she was—a bright-eyed, bushy-tailed, freshman nursing major. We know what you're thinking: How in the world did she end up here? Well, for starters, she was a terrible nursing major. Next came Excel, some HTML... and CryptoKait!
CryptoKait 
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