As the red team captain for the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (NCCDC) since 2007 Mr. Cowen has learned a lot on how to effectively coordinate a red team across multiple teams and objectives. In this presentation we will go over lessons learned, what’s effective, what you would think is helpful but hurts and how to get a team of normally solo super stars to become a team of super friends … villains depending on what side of them you are on.