CPTC Central Region Participating Teams

 Participating in this year's Central Region competition are:

• University of Northern Iowa
• Kansas State University
• Southeast Missouri State University
• The University of Tulsa
• University of Texas at San Antonio
• Southern Methodist University (2nd Place)
• Tennessee Tech University (3rd Place)
• Purdue University
• North Dakota State University
• Drexel University (1st Place)

Keynote Speaker Announced

Russell Butturini currently serves as vice president and security architect at Cadence Bank, a regional commercial focused bank with 99 branches across the Southeast. He has spent the last 20 years in information technology and information security across the financial services and healthcare industries. Russell has also authored multiple penetration testing tools and presented at many well-known information security conferences such as Defcon, Derbycon, and various Bsides events.