Presented at
Diana Initiative 2020 Virtual,
Aug. 22, 2020, 9 a.m.
(60 minutes)
The lockdown has forced almost everyone into digitalization. But as the scale of the number of people doing remote work has increased so has the complexity and vastness of cyberattacks.
Now, from the point of a female engineering student, it’s hard to find a lot of female colleagues in the tech field.‘The International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology’ and many others have published studies regarding the gender gap of women in technology, cybersecurity being one of the fields. And we believe it is our duty to do something for the cause.
If you have ever been intrigued by cybersecurity and wanted to learn, the next question is HOW. Well, we may have the best answer to that, CTF’s. CTFs’ are coding competitions to the Cyberworld teaching you how to work up to escalate privileges from lowkey “bugs”.
Yes, we all know that there are tons of resources on the Internet. But that’s exactly the reason why we lose track. In this talk, we shall introduce you some Crypto and a little bit of Reverse Engineering and shall give you an idea of how to get started and how to navigate your way into the cyber realm. We shall also talk about existing opportunities for women and how to make the most of it.
Presenters:
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Meenakshi S L
**Meenakshi S L** is a CTF player with **Team bi0s**, the No.1 CTF team in India. She is also a part of **Team Shakti**, a group of bubbling young female minds set out to make their mark in the cyber world through CTFs, talks and workshops. She is currently pursuing her undergraduate degree in Computer Science Engineering at** Amrita University**, Kollam, India.
Meenakshi S L realised her love for **cryptography** through ‘The Digital Fortress’ by Dan Brown and have been in pursuit of *problems* ever since. She has been a part of the **Crypto Team** for three years and is excited to share her knowledge with the community. When she's not with a cup of coffee in one hand and a CTF challenge on the other, you can find her on Twitter where she expresses her thoughts to the world.
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Sandra Bino
I'm a B-tech Undergrad student who has been playing CTF's for the past two years out of pure interest and also for the adrenaline rush right after I get a flag. I am also a member of teambi0s the #1 CTF team in India (I've been lucky ) also TeamShakti, an amazing group of girls from teambi0s who teamed up to break the stereotypes and set out to be an example for the young girls out there trying to learn the opportunities and struggling to make their way into Cyber-Security by organizing beginner friendly CTF's. Our goal is to reach out and help as many students to know about CTF's.
TeamShakti - <https://team-shakti.github.io/>
teambi0s - <https://wiki.bi0s.in/>
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