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We're the student cybersecurity club at Ohio University. We play capture the flag, break and harden our own machines, and teach the parts nobody covers in a lecture hall — whatever your major, and whether or not you've opened a terminal before.
- Meetings
- Day, time, room
- Campus
- Athens, Ohio University
- Officer board
- Three majors, one club
About
Security you learn by doing
Cybersecurity is a hands-on field taught mostly in slides. We're the correction to that. Members work through capture-the-flag challenges together, build and break things in a lab we run ourselves, and pick up the practical skills — Linux, networking, forensics, web exploitation — that hiring managers actually ask about.
You do not need a security background to join, and you do not need to be in a computing major. Our own officers come out of computer science, cybersecurity operations, and engineering technology, which is roughly the point: security touches all of it.
What we do
Four things, every semester
Capture the flag
We enter CTFs as a club and practice between them. Beginners pair with someone experienced instead of getting handed a scoreboard and wished luck.
Our own lab
We're standing up dedicated hardware so the club can host its own services and practice targets — a place to try things you should never try on someone else's network.
Workshops
Short, practical sessions run by members: Linux basics, networking, virtual machines, self-hosting, tooling. Teaching one is a good way to actually learn it.
Careers
Our officers have interned in cybersecurity, digital transformation, and undergraduate research. We trade resumes, interview notes, and internship leads openly.
Officers
Who runs this
Vice President · Past President
Tommy Miller
Senior in Cybersecurity Operations and Information Telecommunication Systems. I love research and staying current on emerging threats, vulnerabilities, and technology, and I enjoy building out my homelab. I'm currently a cybersecurity intern at Kroger.
Vice President
Avery Hauser
Computer science student focused on development, virtual machines, and self-hosting. I'm a Digital Transformation intern working on QA and testing for a company-wide Salesforce migration. My big club project is getting dedicated hardware set up so we can host our own services and labs.
Treasurer
Andrew Gill
Senior in Engineering Technology and Management. I found cybersecurity through college-credit classes in high school, and my favorite areas are physical security and computer networking. I work as an undergraduate researcher on a team using machine learning to catch physical defects in manufactured parts before they leave the facility.
Resources
Where to start
Free, legal places to practice. If you're brand new, work down this list in order.
picoctf.org
picoCTF
Beginner-friendly CTF practice from Carnegie Mellon. Start here.
overthewire.org
OverTheWire
Classic wargames for learning Linux and security fundamentals in a browser.
tryhackme.com
TryHackMe
Guided, hands-on rooms. Good for filling gaps between meetings.
ctftime.org
CTFtime
Calendar and rankings for CTFs worldwide. This is how we pick what to enter.
nationalcyberleague.org
National Cyber League
Individual and team competition on a collegiate season schedule.
ohio.edu
Cybersecurity at OHIO
The McClure School's Cybersecurity Operations degree and certificate, if you want the coursework too.
Join
Come to a meeting
Show up once and see if it's for you — no signup, no dues conversation, no prerequisite. Bring a laptop if you have one. If you'd rather ask a question first, reach an officer at club email.