TAMUctf

Individual Prizes

1. 1st Place: VOUCHER + HTB + T-SHIRT
2. 2nd Place: VOUCHER + HTB + T-SHIRT
3. 3rd Place: VOUCHER + T-SHIRT
4. 4th Place: T-SHIRT
5. 5th Place: T-SHIRT

Team Prizes

1. 1st Place: VOUCHER + HTB + T-SHIRTs
2. 2nd Place: HTB + T-SHIRTS
3. 3rd Place: T-SHIRTS

Additional prizes graciously sponsored by TAMU DCLDP, the Defense Cyber Leader Development Program! (Must be a TAMU undergraduate student):

• For each undergraduate class year, the top TAMU student competitor (regardless of team status) will win a $2000 scholarship
• For each undergraduate class year, the 2nd place TAMU student competitor (regardless of team status) will win a $1000 scholarship
• For each undergraduate class year, there will be 2 additional prizes of $500 randomly chosen for TAMU student competitors (regardless of team status)

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. Good teams generally have strong skills and experience in all these issues.

If you have any questions feel free to contact the development team at ctf@tamu.edu.