NetWars is one of the key competitions in the United States Cyber Challenge. For an overview of the Challenge, please click here to download the description from the White House web site.

Do you really know your way around computers? Do you think you can recover the password from a computer? Take control of a service? Protect the system against other users who might want to take it over?

Netwars is the ultimate online game: an adventure across the Internet. You can play as an analyst, a penetration tester, a defender, or any combination. You earn points by finding keys, moving to higher levels, capturing services such as a website, overcoming obstacles (attack techniques) and protecting resources (defensive techniques). You can see the other players scores and your own points scored, live, or on an overall scoreboard.