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SkillsUSA Teaser CTF Competition

Sponsored by Texas A&M Cybersecurity Center & TAMUctf in Partnership with SkillsUSA Texas

 

December 10th, 2020

9:00am-3:00pm

Register Here starting December 10

What is a Capture the Flag Competition?
A Capture the Flag (CTF) is a special kind of information security competition. There are three common types of CTFs: Jeopardy, Attack-Defense and Mixed.

Jeopardy-style
CTFs (TAMUctf) has a series of questions (tasks) in a range of categories. For example, Web, Forensic, Crypto, Binary Exploitation or something else. Teams or individuals can gain points for every solved task. There are more points for more complicated tasks usually. The team or individual with the most points when the game is over is the CTF winner. Famous example of such CTF is Defcon CTF quals.
Attack-defense
is another interesting kind of competition. Here every team has their own network(or only one host) with vulnerable services. Your team has time for patching your services and developing exploits usually. Then, organizers connect participants of the competition and the wargame starts! You should protect own services for defense points and hack opponents for attack points. Historically this is a first type of CTFs, everybody knows about DEF CON CTF – something like a World Cup of all other competitions.
Mixed competitions
may vary possible formats. It may be something like wargame with special time for task-based elements (e.g. UCSB iCTF).

CTF games often touch on many other aspects of information security: cryptography, stego, binary analysis, reverse engineering, mobile security and others.

The SkillsUSA Teaser CTF Competition is an introductory capture the flag (CTF) competition will provide practical challenges covering various cybersecurity topics. Once an individual challenge is solved, a “flag” is given to the player and they submit this flag to the CTF server to earn points. Players can work alone or as a team. All skill levels are encouraged to play!

Registration opens on December 10th

Register Here starting December 10

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