Insert Security Competition Here

Presented at ShellCon 2019, Oct. 11, 2019, 3 p.m. (50 minutes).

Competitions are everywhere in cyber security, but have you ever wondered what it takes to create one? This talk covers the challenges of creating an exciting competition that helps people develop skills and covers the challenges faced in building infrastructure to support competitions. We will primarily be covering CCDC competitions (Collegiate Cyber Defense Competitions) but we will also cover capture the flag competitions through the lens of a competition organizer and the challenges faced. If you are interested in competing in or want to help put together an competition, this talk is for you.

Presenters:

• Wasabi
  Wasabi is a security researcher who dabbles in the arts of system administration. He participated in CCDC, CPTC, and many CTFs as a competitor before starting to help organize cyber defense competitions himself. He is now the Black Team lead for .
• Bluescreenofwin
  Bluescreenofwin is a Windows System Administrator and Windows hacker. He is currently employed as a Security Analyst and when he is not drowning in logs he can be found brewing copious amounts of delicious beer in his garage. He is on track to graduate with his B.S. in Computer Information Systems (eventually, some day).

Links:

• https://2019.shellcon.io/talks/insert-security-competition-here/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmTYw8PNeto

Similar Presentations:

• DEF CON 14 (2006) / The National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition
• Kernelcon 2020 Virtual / Dispelling myths of red/blue cyber competition through metrics
• LayerOne 2019 / Competing for the Future: Building and Automation InfoSec Competitions