The U.S. Air Force Academy won this year’s Cyber Defense Exercise (CDX), gaining its fourth trophy – and its first consecutive victory – since the competition began in 2001. The NSA was the red team, “pretending to be the bad guys,” stated Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition Director Dwayne Williams. The teams spent about three weeks building their networks, then spent last week defending them against NSA and Department of Defense hackers who launched attacks around the clock to determine which team best defended their network “on the cyber battlefield””]