Team Breakdown and Defined Roles
The Team Breakdown is as follows
Team Captain
A student or team member of the Blue Team identified as the primary liaison between the Blue Team and the White or Red Team.
Team Co-Captain
A student or team member of the Blue Team identified as the secondary or backup liaison between the Blue Team and the White or Black Team, should the Team Captain be unavailable (i.e. not in the competition room).
Team representatives
A faculty or staff representative of the competing (Blue) Team’s host institution responsible for serving as a liaison between competition officials and the Blue Team’s institution.
Gold Team
Competition officials who organise, run, and manage the competition. They solicit sponsorship, manage the budget and handle all communication, including complaints.
Purple Team
competition officials who are responsible for marketing and creating awareness for the competition.
Yellow Team
Competition officials that are responsible for the event logistics including food, venue, and program design.
Red Team
Penetration testing professionals simulating external hackers attempting to gain unauthorised access to competition teams’ systems. The objective is not to disable the networks but to set things up that create a learning environment for the students. Headed by Mr Ruan Kotzé, Deputised by Mr Johann van Rooyen
White Team
Competition support members who provide overall administrative support to the competition. They develop documentation and rules.
Blue Team
The institution’s competitive teams consist of students competing in an NNCSC event
Silver Team
Competition support members are responsible for the infrastructure and providing technical support. They create and build the networks the competing students will have to defend. This team also deals with the physical workstations, routers, and virtual and cloud environments of the competition.
Green Team
Competition officials, who observe team performance in their competition area, judge and evaluate team performance and rule compliance. They are the scorekeepers during the event.
Orange Team
These are customer service professionals who evaluate to crate or technically end users who will be requesting services from the white team – Co-headed by Mr. Julius Silaa & Mr. Isaac Nhamu.