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Cyber Security Competitions. Evan Painter 09/07/11. Known Competitions. (PR)CCDC - Seattle, WA, March 2012 Restricted number of grads Only defense CSAW - New York City Any number of grads (some restrictions) Capture the Flag, September 23-25, 2011
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Cyber Security Competitions Evan Painter 09/07/11
Known Competitions • (PR)CCDC - Seattle, WA, March 2012 • Restricted number of grads • Only defense • CSAW - New York City • Any number of grads (some restrictions) • Capture the Flag, September 23-25, 2011 • Embedded Systems Challenge (capture the Chip), November 10-11, 2011 • Quiz tournament, November 10-11, 2011 • DEFCON - Las Vegas, NV, August • Capture the Flag • amateur and professional divisions
(PR)CCDC • (Pacific Rim Regional) Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition • Regional run by the University of Washington, mid March • National run in San Antonio, early April • Team of 8 max • max of 2 grad students • http://ciac.ischool.washington.edu/?page_id=234 • http://www.nationalccdc.org/
CCDC 2011 Rules • free internet resources permitted, must be available to all competitors • "Teams May not use any external, private electronic staging area or FTP site for patches, software, etc. during the competition." • No flash drives or other media unless authorized • cannot bring in computers or phones unless authorized • Scoring based on: • keeping services up • preventing unauthorized access • completion of business tasks
CSAW Cyber security Competition • Qualification Round - September 23-25, 2011 • Final Round - November 10-11th, 2011 • Polytechnic Institute of New York University • Capture the Flag • Embedded Systems Challenge (capture the Chip) • Quiz tournament • http://www.poly.edu/csaw2011/
CSAW - Capture the Flag • Application Security Challenge • only undergraduates can compete for prizes • graduate students (and practically anyone) can enter the qualification round • loosely based on DefCon CTF • no size restriction for qualification round • limit 4 players for finals
CSAW - Embedded Systems Challenge • September 10 - November 11, 2011 • Open to high school, undergrad, and grad students • Registration ends September 10th • Submission deadline September 20th • 2 challenges: • Attacking an embedded processor (8051) • Design an efficient Physical Unclonable Functions (PUF)
CSAW - Quiz Tournament November 10-11, 2011 • Open to high school, undergrad, and grad students • tests breadth and depth of knowledge on digital security topics including: • Network security, cryptography, malware, application and web security, protocols, the history of digital security, digital forensics, and policy, risk management, and standards • Qualifying rounds and a final round • Each round a moderator asks 10-12 questions • teams have 30 seconds to write down an answer
DEFCON - Capture the Flag • July 26-29, 2012 • amateur and professional levels • there is a qualifying round for the professional level • held around June (I think) • Rules and structure changes from year to year, and has yet to be posted • but there aren't many rules • https://www.defcon.org/html/links/dc-ctf.html