Jekyll2020-02-03T21:01:13+00:00https://benjaminheise.com/feed.xmlBen HeiseBen Heise, a hacker, redteamer, information security, professional, technologist, podcaster, and Capture The Flag winner.{"name"=>nil, "avatar"=>"/images/headshot.jpg", "bio"=>"Redteamer", "location"=>"On your computers", "email"=>"ben@rallysecurity.com", "links"=>[{"label"=>"Email", "icon"=>"fas fa-fw fa-envelope-square"}, {"label"=>"Twitter", "icon"=>"fab fa-fw fa-twitter-square", "url"=>"https://twitter.com/benheise"}, {"label"=>"GitHub", "icon"=>"fab fa-fw fa-github", "url"=>"https://github.com/benheise"}, {"label"=>"RallySecurity Website", "icon"=>"fas fa-fw fa-link", "url"=>"https://rallysecurity.com"}, {"label"=>"RallySecurity Twitter", "icon"=>"fab fa-fw fa-twitter-square", "url"=>"https://twitter.com/rallysecurity"}, {"label"=>"RallySecurity Twitch", "icon"=>"fab fa-fw fa-twitch", "url"=>"https://twitch.tv/rallysecurity"}, {"label"=>"Facebook", "icon"=>"fab fa-fw fa-facebook-square"}, {"label"=>"Instagram", "icon"=>"fab fa-fw fa-instagram"}]}ben@rallysecurity.comBen Heise and UMUC’s Cyber Padawans take home the gold at the 2014 Global Cyberlympics2014-09-30T00:00:00+00:002014-09-30T00:00:00+00:00https://benjaminheise.com/Global-Cyberlympics-2014-UMUC<p>The Cyber Padawans—a team of cyber security students, faculty, and alumni from University of Maryland University College (UMUC)—defeated the world’s best, including the three-time defending champion team from the Netherlands, to win the 2014 Global CyberLympics in Barcelona, Spain.</p>
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<p>The Cyber Padawans trained extensively prior to flying to Barcelona, Spain for the competition.</p>
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<p>This team, lead by Matthew Matchen, did was the teams Ben previously participated in hadn’t been able to do: Win the gold!</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.umuc.edu/news/announcements/global-cyberlympics-2014.cfm">Read more about their victory here.</a></p>{"name"=>nil, "avatar"=>"/images/headshot.jpg", "bio"=>"Redteamer", "location"=>"On your computers", "email"=>"ben@rallysecurity.com", "links"=>[{"label"=>"Email", "icon"=>"fas fa-fw fa-envelope-square"}, {"label"=>"Twitter", "icon"=>"fab fa-fw fa-twitter-square", "url"=>"https://twitter.com/benheise"}, {"label"=>"GitHub", "icon"=>"fab fa-fw fa-github", "url"=>"https://github.com/benheise"}, {"label"=>"RallySecurity Website", "icon"=>"fas fa-fw fa-link", "url"=>"https://rallysecurity.com"}, {"label"=>"RallySecurity Twitter", "icon"=>"fab fa-fw fa-twitter-square", "url"=>"https://twitter.com/rallysecurity"}, {"label"=>"RallySecurity Twitch", "icon"=>"fab fa-fw fa-twitch", "url"=>"https://twitch.tv/rallysecurity"}, {"label"=>"Facebook", "icon"=>"fab fa-fw fa-facebook-square"}, {"label"=>"Instagram", "icon"=>"fab fa-fw fa-instagram"}]}ben@rallysecurity.comThe Cyber Padawans—a team of cyber security students, faculty, and alumni from University of Maryland University College (UMUC)—defeated the world’s best, including the three-time defending champion team from the Netherlands, to win the 2014 Global CyberLympics in Barcelona, Spain.UMUC’s Ben Heise Finished Third In National Cyber League Competition2014-02-14T00:00:00+00:002014-02-14T00:00:00+00:00https://benjaminheise.com/Ben-Heise-Finishes-Third-NCL<p>Ben Heise, a junior majoring in computer networks and security at University of Maryland University College (UMUC), recently finished third nationally in the National Cyber League’s (NCL) fall 2013 individual competition.</p>
<p>“It was exciting to finish so high,” Heise said. “The challenges we had to meet ranged from easy to very, very hard. I recognized the names of people that I have seen do very well in these types of competitions, so I was extremely pleased with my result and the results of our team.”</p>
<p><a href="https://globalmedia.umuc.edu/2014/02/11/umucs-ben-heise-finished-third-in-national-cyber-league-competition/">Read more about it here.</a></p>{"name"=>nil, "avatar"=>"/images/headshot.jpg", "bio"=>"Redteamer", "location"=>"On your computers", "email"=>"ben@rallysecurity.com", "links"=>[{"label"=>"Email", "icon"=>"fas fa-fw fa-envelope-square"}, {"label"=>"Twitter", "icon"=>"fab fa-fw fa-twitter-square", "url"=>"https://twitter.com/benheise"}, {"label"=>"GitHub", "icon"=>"fab fa-fw fa-github", "url"=>"https://github.com/benheise"}, {"label"=>"RallySecurity Website", "icon"=>"fas fa-fw fa-link", "url"=>"https://rallysecurity.com"}, {"label"=>"RallySecurity Twitter", "icon"=>"fab fa-fw fa-twitter-square", "url"=>"https://twitter.com/rallysecurity"}, {"label"=>"RallySecurity Twitch", "icon"=>"fab fa-fw fa-twitch", "url"=>"https://twitch.tv/rallysecurity"}, {"label"=>"Facebook", "icon"=>"fab fa-fw fa-facebook-square"}, {"label"=>"Instagram", "icon"=>"fab fa-fw fa-instagram"}]}ben@rallysecurity.comBen Heise, a junior majoring in computer networks and security at University of Maryland University College (UMUC), recently finished third nationally in the National Cyber League’s (NCL) fall 2013 individual competition.Ben Heise and UMUC Team Places in Top Three of National Cybersecurity Competition2012-08-12T00:00:00+00:002012-08-12T00:00:00+00:00https://benjaminheise.com/Ben-Heise-and-UMUC-finishes-third-MITRE-STEM<p>University of Maryland University College (UMUC) announced today that a team of its undergraduate cybersecurity students, including one resident from Aberdeen, placed third out of 53 teams at The MITRE Corporation’s 2012 Capture the Flag (CTF) Cyber Challenge, held July 9–10. The competition, which was open to undergraduate and high school students, drew entries from across the country, with teams from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo (1st place), the University of South Florida (2nd place), Carnegie Mellon University (4th place) and the Polytechnic Institute of New York University (5th place) rounding out the top five finishers.</p>
<p>The UMUC Cyber team, “Padawans”, was comprised four students, including John Arneson, Benjamin Heise (Aberdeen resident), Armando Quintananieves and Justin Wray. The team was led by Dr. Jeff Tjiputra, academic director of Cybersecurity and Computer Networks & Security in UMUC’s Undergraduate School; UMUC alumnus Chris Kuehl served as the team’s technical advisor. The two-day, 20-hour online competition consisted of a series of challenges with varying degrees of difficulty in cyber-related categories such as computer networking, cryptography, forensics, reverse engineering and Web server exploitation.</p>
<p><a href="https://patch.com/maryland/aberdeen/an--umuc-team-places-in-top-three-of-national-cybersebe316fc844">Read more at the Patch</a></p>{"name"=>nil, "avatar"=>"/images/headshot.jpg", "bio"=>"Redteamer", "location"=>"On your computers", "email"=>"ben@rallysecurity.com", "links"=>[{"label"=>"Email", "icon"=>"fas fa-fw fa-envelope-square"}, {"label"=>"Twitter", "icon"=>"fab fa-fw fa-twitter-square", "url"=>"https://twitter.com/benheise"}, {"label"=>"GitHub", "icon"=>"fab fa-fw fa-github", "url"=>"https://github.com/benheise"}, {"label"=>"RallySecurity Website", "icon"=>"fas fa-fw fa-link", "url"=>"https://rallysecurity.com"}, {"label"=>"RallySecurity Twitter", "icon"=>"fab fa-fw fa-twitter-square", "url"=>"https://twitter.com/rallysecurity"}, {"label"=>"RallySecurity Twitch", "icon"=>"fab fa-fw fa-twitch", "url"=>"https://twitch.tv/rallysecurity"}, {"label"=>"Facebook", "icon"=>"fab fa-fw fa-facebook-square"}, {"label"=>"Instagram", "icon"=>"fab fa-fw fa-instagram"}]}ben@rallysecurity.comUniversity of Maryland University College (UMUC) announced today that a team of its undergraduate cybersecurity students, including one resident from Aberdeen, placed third out of 53 teams at The MITRE Corporation’s 2012 Capture the Flag (CTF) Cyber Challenge, held July 9–10. The competition, which was open to undergraduate and high school students, drew entries from across the country, with teams from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo (1st place), the University of South Florida (2nd place), Carnegie Mellon University (4th place) and the Polytechnic Institute of New York University (5th place) rounding out the top five finishers.Ben Heise and TeamICF Take 2nd at the 2012 Global Cyberlympics2012-04-05T00:00:00+00:002012-04-05T00:00:00+00:00https://benjaminheise.com/Global-Cyberlympics-2012<p>The ICF International team representing North America won second place at The Global CyberLympics World Finals held March 21 in Chantilly, Va. The ethical hacking competition pitted teams from North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia Pacific against each other in attempts to attack and defend various cyber targets. The Netherlands team took home the title.</p>
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<p>Read more at the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160819175755/http://www.icfi.com/about/awards-and-recognition/2012/global-cyberlympics-world-finals">ICF International press release</a></p>{"name"=>nil, "avatar"=>"/images/headshot.jpg", "bio"=>"Redteamer", "location"=>"On your computers", "email"=>"ben@rallysecurity.com", "links"=>[{"label"=>"Email", "icon"=>"fas fa-fw fa-envelope-square"}, {"label"=>"Twitter", "icon"=>"fab fa-fw fa-twitter-square", "url"=>"https://twitter.com/benheise"}, {"label"=>"GitHub", "icon"=>"fab fa-fw fa-github", "url"=>"https://github.com/benheise"}, {"label"=>"RallySecurity Website", "icon"=>"fas fa-fw fa-link", "url"=>"https://rallysecurity.com"}, {"label"=>"RallySecurity Twitter", "icon"=>"fab fa-fw fa-twitter-square", "url"=>"https://twitter.com/rallysecurity"}, {"label"=>"RallySecurity Twitch", "icon"=>"fab fa-fw fa-twitch", "url"=>"https://twitch.tv/rallysecurity"}, {"label"=>"Facebook", "icon"=>"fab fa-fw fa-facebook-square"}, {"label"=>"Instagram", "icon"=>"fab fa-fw fa-instagram"}]}ben@rallysecurity.comThe ICF International team representing North America won second place at The Global CyberLympics World Finals held March 21 in Chantilly, Va. The ethical hacking competition pitted teams from North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia Pacific against each other in attempts to attack and defend various cyber targets. The Netherlands team took home the title.Ben Heise and the Army Research Lab’s TeamICF takes silver at 2012 Global Cyberlympics2012-03-31T00:00:00+00:002012-03-31T00:00:00+00:00https://benjaminheise.com/Global-Cyberlympics-2012-ARL<p>Six ethical hackers who protect U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) computer networks rose to the second place spot in the Global CyberLympics World Finals. The series of cyber challenges is touted as the world’s first international team hacking championship. ARL’s Computational and Information Sciences Directorate support contractors from ICF International, who represented the U.S. in the World Finals held March 21 in Chantilly, Va. were not far behind the number one team during the span of competition. The Netherlands team won first place.</p>
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<p>Read more at the <a href="http://www.arl.army.mil/www/?article=965">Army Research Lab’s press release</a>.</p>{"name"=>nil, "avatar"=>"/images/headshot.jpg", "bio"=>"Redteamer", "location"=>"On your computers", "email"=>"ben@rallysecurity.com", "links"=>[{"label"=>"Email", "icon"=>"fas fa-fw fa-envelope-square"}, {"label"=>"Twitter", "icon"=>"fab fa-fw fa-twitter-square", "url"=>"https://twitter.com/benheise"}, {"label"=>"GitHub", "icon"=>"fab fa-fw fa-github", "url"=>"https://github.com/benheise"}, {"label"=>"RallySecurity Website", "icon"=>"fas fa-fw fa-link", "url"=>"https://rallysecurity.com"}, {"label"=>"RallySecurity Twitter", "icon"=>"fab fa-fw fa-twitter-square", "url"=>"https://twitter.com/rallysecurity"}, {"label"=>"RallySecurity Twitch", "icon"=>"fab fa-fw fa-twitch", "url"=>"https://twitch.tv/rallysecurity"}, {"label"=>"Facebook", "icon"=>"fab fa-fw fa-facebook-square"}, {"label"=>"Instagram", "icon"=>"fab fa-fw fa-instagram"}]}ben@rallysecurity.comSix ethical hackers who protect U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) computer networks rose to the second place spot in the Global CyberLympics World Finals. The series of cyber challenges is touted as the world’s first international team hacking championship. ARL’s Computational and Information Sciences Directorate support contractors from ICF International, who represented the U.S. in the World Finals held March 21 in Chantilly, Va. were not far behind the number one team during the span of competition. The Netherlands team won first place.Ben Heise and TeamICF take the gold at the 2011 MDC32011-12-19T00:00:00+00:002011-12-19T00:00:00+00:00https://benjaminheise.com/Ben-Heise-and-TeamICF-take-the-gold-at-the-2011-MDC3<p>During MDC3, Team ICF was the first team to successfully penetrate all 11 sites that Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) had created for the competition. As the team was crossing the stage to accept their prizes at MDC3, they learned that they had been invited to Miami to compete in the North American Championship Cyberlympics hosted at Hacker Halted 2011.</p>
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<p>The six-member team routed eight other teams of cyber sleuths from all over the country to win at Hacker Halted 2011, which was held in Miami, Florida in late October. The win earned them the berth as the USA team in the Global Cyberlympics World Championship to be contested in March 2012.</p>{"name"=>nil, "avatar"=>"/images/headshot.jpg", "bio"=>"Redteamer", "location"=>"On your computers", "email"=>"ben@rallysecurity.com", "links"=>[{"label"=>"Email", "icon"=>"fas fa-fw fa-envelope-square"}, {"label"=>"Twitter", "icon"=>"fab fa-fw fa-twitter-square", "url"=>"https://twitter.com/benheise"}, {"label"=>"GitHub", "icon"=>"fab fa-fw fa-github", "url"=>"https://github.com/benheise"}, {"label"=>"RallySecurity Website", "icon"=>"fas fa-fw fa-link", "url"=>"https://rallysecurity.com"}, {"label"=>"RallySecurity Twitter", "icon"=>"fab fa-fw fa-twitter-square", "url"=>"https://twitter.com/rallysecurity"}, {"label"=>"RallySecurity Twitch", "icon"=>"fab fa-fw fa-twitch", "url"=>"https://twitch.tv/rallysecurity"}, {"label"=>"Facebook", "icon"=>"fab fa-fw fa-facebook-square"}, {"label"=>"Instagram", "icon"=>"fab fa-fw fa-instagram"}]}ben@rallysecurity.comDuring MDC3, Team ICF was the first team to successfully penetrate all 11 sites that Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) had created for the competition. As the team was crossing the stage to accept their prizes at MDC3, they learned that they had been invited to Miami to compete in the North American Championship Cyberlympics hosted at Hacker Halted 2011.