Spartan Cybersecurity Club

We are a group of students at Michigan State pursuing ethical hacking and cybersecurity skills by taking part in competitions like Capture The Flag events. We also organise workshops and events to introduce others to the underappreciated world of cybersecurity and create a fun community at MSU led by the curiosity to explore tech and take everything apart.

We primarily use Discord to share communications about our latest meetings and updates.

Team

Udbhav Saxena

President

Kyle Nguyen

Vice President

Ishan Sinha

Secretary, Social Media

Gautham Dineshkumar

Treasurer

Charles Selipsky

Board Member / Treasurer

Dr. Qiben Yan

Faculty Advisor

MITRE eCTF

🏴 The embedded cybersecurity competition is an annual semester-long CTF run by MITRE Corporation. It is an attack-defense CTF which makes participants dive into cryptography and embedded firmware, and design a secure system that holds up to attack against other universities. MSU students have been taking part in the eCTF since 2022!

eCTF 2025

In the 2025 eCTF, teams designed and implemented a Satellite TV system. The system had to securely encode and decode satellite TV data streams while protecting against unauthorized access to protected channels.

Picture of the eCTF 2025 team

eCTF 2024

In 2024, the objective was to design firmware for a medical device consisting of three boards - an application processor and two auxillary components which would model devices like an insulin pump.

Picture of the eCTF 2024 team

Past Event Flyers

Poster for quantum computing workshop
Poster for quantum binary exploitation workshop
Poster for Caesar Creek workshop
Poster for Block Harbor workshop

Sponsorship

We are looking for sponsors for the club! If you are interesting in supporting us in any way, please reach out to RSO.SSS@msu.edu