Interest Groups and Partnerships

Specialized tracks. Deep dives. From physical security to malware analysis. Small teams tackling the hardest problems.

IRSEC 2024 in the Cyber Range, with the Red Team Board in the background.

Interest Groups

Beyond our general meetings, we run specialized sub-groups that dive deep into specific domains of cybersecurity.

Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition

James Southcott

Our CCDC team trains throughout the year for competitions that focus on securing and managing a fictitious corporate network.

Incident Response

Tuesday 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM (CYB-2780)
Chloe, Eva

The incident response interest group focuses on all topics related to cyber incidents, and effective blue teaming.

Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition

Kilroy

The Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition (CPTC) is a national collegiate competition that focuses on the offensive aspects of cybersecurity.

Offensive Security

Wednesday 8:15 PM - 9:15 PM (CYB-2750)
Camden, James

We develop robust red team tools, infrastructure, and implants to play the role of an effective adversary in a red vs blue competition setting.

Operations

Monday 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM (CYB-2780)
John, Lukas

The operations interest group focuses on various topics related to RITSEC's infrastructure. These topics could be related to hardware, virtualization, networking, automation, cloud computing, and server management.

OT Security

Wednesday 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM (CYB-2780)
Lucas, Lukas

Operational Technology (OT) Security protects the computers and machines that control real-world things like power plants, water treatment facilities, traffic lights, and factory machines.

Physical Security

Thursday 6:00 PN - 7:00 PM (CYB-2750)
Joey, Abigail

You will learn to pick locks, alternative entry methods and many other things that computing security experts don't tend to think of when they are securing a system.

Reversing

Monday 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM (CYB-2750)
Tanush, Thomas

Focusing on binary applications, such as assembly, executable formats, and malware tactics.

RVAPT

Wednesday 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM (CYB-2750)
Rahel, Masaki

At RVAPT, we learn how to find and exploit vulnerabilities in networks and associated services by hands on custom labs.

Team Contagion

Thursday 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM (CYB-2780)
Manav, Aidan

Contagion represents RITSEC in a variety of Capture the Flag (CTF) competitions. We compete at different ranges of difficulty and on both the national and international levels.

Vulnerability Research

Monday 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM (CYB-2750) • Thursday 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM (CYB-2750)
Aleksi, Tanush, Cam, Adam

To introduce members of the club to the concepts of vulnerability and security research. This includes concepts such as bug bounties, code analysis, and fuzzing.

Wireless

Thursday 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM (CYB-2780)
Raina

The Wireless Interest Group (aka Wiggles) focuses on all thing wireless. We focus more on cybersecurity related topics in wireless but we also go outside of this realm covering all things wireless and RF.

WiCys

Monday 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM (GOL-1710)
Emmalee, Anushka, Arshia, Lily, Ariana

The WiCyS RIT Student Chapter is an all-inclusive interest group within RITSEC dedicated to making RIT’s Computing Security program more equitable.

Zero-to-Hero

Will

Learn a little bit of everything. Build the foundation you need to go above and beyond in cybersecurity. Discover what your passion is in cybersecurity.