The Cadet Competitive Cyber Team (C3T) hosted world renowned software reverse engineer, Mr. Chris Eagle for their annual Reverse Engineering (RE) Workshop. For over 30 hours, the cadets work for on 17 distinct problems with a total of 193 solves for the entire team. Mr. Eagle is a fantastic educator on the foundations of computer science. Using capture-the-flag challenges, he covers a tremendous breadth of topics including memory layout, hardware design, compiler implementations and operating system internals. C3T reviewed problems from this past year s All-Army Cyberstakes Competition while preparing for the spring season competitions of Boston Key Party and Plaid CTF.
In appreciation of his continual support to the USMA Cyber Team, the C3T coaches surprised Mr. Eagle with a well overdue honor. He was awarded the Military Cyber Professional Association s Silver Order of Thor medal (SoT) to recognize his great contributions to the military cyber community. Mr. Eagle is the author of the IDA Pro Book, two-time DEFCON CTF champion, the system architect for the DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge, and a Senior Lecturer at the Naval Postgraduate School. Mr. Eagle has been the graduate school advisor to C3T coaches and alumni and has worked with C3T members on Academic Individual Advanced Development (AIAD) over the past 4 years. Mr Eagle is also a retired Navy Lieutenant Commander. The workshop was an incredible, unparalleled, educational/developmental experience for the C3T. These cadets will be better (cyber) officers as a direct result of Mr. Eagle s time. The dedicated training he provides the C3T Team would cost over $60,000 in tuition alone as provided during the Black Hat training events in Las Vegas.