{"id":1198,"date":"2026-04-26T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/?p=1198"},"modified":"2026-10-15T17:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T00:49:09","slug":"cyberucis-2025-2026-competition-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/?p=1198","title":{"rendered":"Cyber@UCI\u2019s 2025\u20132026 Competition Results"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/CPTC_2026_Champions.jpg\" alt=\"Cyber@UCI\u2019s CPTC team with the 2026 CPTC Global Finals championship trophy\" class=\"wp-image-1193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/CPTC_2026_Champions.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/CPTC_2026_Champions-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/CPTC_2026_Champions-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/CPTC_2026_Champions-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/CPTC_2026_Champions-930x620.jpg 930w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption>Cyber@UCI\u2019s CPTC team, 2026 CPTC Global Champions (photo: UC Irvine Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Congratulations to Cyber@UCI on its 2025\u20132026 competition season! The club\u2019s Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition (CPTC) team, coached by Habiba Farrukh, won 1st place at the CPTC Global Finals, held January 9\u201311, 2026, at the Rochester Institute of Technology, after placing 2nd at the Southern California regional. The club\u2019s Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (CCDC) team took 2nd at the Western Regional CCDC, won the national Wild Card round, and finished 8th at the 2026 National CCDC. Alfred Chen and I serve as the club\u2019s co-faculty advisors. Please learn more about the CPTC championship here: <a href=\"https:\/\/ics.uci.edu\/2026\/01\/16\/ics-students-win-global-cptc-cybersecurity-championship\/\">https:\/\/ics.uci.edu\/2026\/01\/16\/ics-students-win-global-cptc-cybersecurity-championship\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/ITC_2026_CyberUCI.jpg\" alt=\"Cyber@UCI teams at the 2026 Information Technology Competition at Cal Poly Pomona\" class=\"wp-image-1194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/ITC_2026_CyberUCI.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/ITC_2026_CyberUCI-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/ITC_2026_CyberUCI-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/ITC_2026_CyberUCI-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/ITC_2026_CyberUCI-930x620.jpg 930w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption>Cyber@UCI teams at the 2026 Information Technology Competition (photo: UC Irvine Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Members of the club also won 1st place in the IT Security track and 3rd place in the Artificial Intelligence track of Cal Poly Pomona\u2019s 2026 Information Technology Competition: <a href=\"https:\/\/ics.uci.edu\/2026\/05\/05\/student-teams-win-2026-information-technology-competition\/\">https:\/\/ics.uci.edu\/2026\/05\/05\/student-teams-win-2026-information-technology-competition\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Cyber@UCI on its 2025\u20132026 competition season! The club\u2019s Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition (CPTC) team, coached by Habiba Farrukh, won 1st place at the CPTC Global Finals, held January 9\u201311, 2026, at the Rochester Institute of Technology, after placing 2nd at the Southern California regional. The club\u2019s Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (CCDC) team took&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/?p=1198\" rel=\"bookmark\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cyber@UCI\u2019s 2025\u20132026 Competition Results<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1192,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1202,"href":"https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198\/revisions\/1202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jgarcia.ics.uci.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}