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I am a CS student, and am considering competing in the National Collegiate Cyber

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Question

I am a CS student, and am considering competing in the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition. Although I have a fair amount of experience in programming competitions (e.g. ACM at High School level, and various online competitions), I have never really considered information security competitions and/or study.

Question: Starting from nearly ground-zero in information security and networking, how should one prepare for playing "blue team" in a competition like the CCDC? Specifically, is there a "THE book" that would be useful to read?

Explanation / Answer

I recently joined my own school's cyber security club with no security knowledge and learned a lot in the months preceding the CCDC. First thing's first