For many years I have competed in and ran multiple computer security competitions on the east coast. From being a competitor and team captain in The National Cyber Defense Competition, to winning Hack-or-Halo at Shmoocon, and also running the Information Security Talent Search and designing the CTF for the Rochester Security Summit, I’ve gotten to see a lot of great competitors and different challenges.
This week I have began to design a brand new CTF/Security competition that could possibly be played online from remote locations and in person. This new CTF will include things like:
- Social Engineering
- Reverse Engineering
- Malware analysis
- System Security
- Network Security
- Cryptography
- Intrusion Detection
- Exploit writing
The idea behind this is to take the experiences I’ve had from various competition and turn them all into one big comprehensive security competition that touches a bit on every aspect of security.
Who knows, maybe this will span out and end up being a regular competition in the DC area.