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Road to ECSC
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Overview
- What is ECSC
○ Short history ○ Details about the competition
- 2017 edition
○ The new format, how it worked out ○ Romania’s performance
- The future
○ How to get involved
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Overview
- What is ECSC
○ Short history ○ Details about the competition
- 2017 edition
○ The new format, how it worked out ○ Romania’s performance
- The future
○ How to get involved
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Short history: 2014
- It began as a competition between
○ Germany ○ Austria ○ Switzerland
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Short history: 2015
- Three more countries joined
○ United Kingdom ○ Romania ○ Spain
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Short history: 2016
- Even more participants:
○ Greece ○ Estonia ○ Ireland ○ Lichtenstein
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Short history: 2017
- 2017 newcomers
○ Cyprus ○ Italy ○ Norway ○ Denmark ○ Czech Republic
- A total of 15 countries
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Overview
- What is ECSC
○ Short history ○ Details about the competition
- 2017 edition
○ The new format, how it worked out ○ Romania’s performance
- The future
○ How to get involved
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The competition
- 10 people per team
- Not a typical CTF
- Split into multiple subparts:
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○ Jeopardy ○ Attack-defense ○ Misc tasks ○ Presentations
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Overview
- What is ECSC
○ Short history ○ Details about the competition
- 2017 edition
○ The new format, how it worked out ○ Romania’s performance
- The future
○ How to get involved
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The new format
- Virtualization
- Attack-defense and Jeopardy
- Control VM via browser
- Even playing field
- Easier to manage
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The new format
- Hardware hacking
- Three categories:
○ RF signaling ○ Digital lockpicking ○ Cryptography
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Overview
- What is ECSC
○ Short history ○ Details about the competition
- 2017 edition
○ The new format, how it worked out ○ Romania’s performance
- The future
○ How to get involved
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The team
- Different composition
- Half of us were completely new
- Skill distribution - quite even
○ Except hardware hacking...
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The competition itself
There were…. … technical problems :(
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The categories
- Hardware hacking
- Attack defense
- Jeopardy
- King of the hill
- Presentations
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- -->Delayed, then crashed later
- --> Replaced with fallback plan
OK
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How did we do?
- Pretty well
- At some point we were #1
- … But then Spain beat us
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#ThrowBackECSC2016
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Overview
- What is ECSC
○ Short history ○ Details about the competition
- 2017 edition
○ The new format, how it worked out ○ Romania’s performance
- The future
○ How to get involved
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The importance
- Many things become digital
- Cybersecurity -> more relevant
- A great way to get into the field
- Lots of things to discover, and have fun!
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The future
- Next year in UK
- Around 20 countries
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- 2019 in Romania
- Around 25 countries
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Overview
- What is ECSC
○ Short history ○ Details about the competition
- 2017 edition
○ The new format, how it worked out ○ Romania’s performance
- The future
○ How to get involved
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Getting in
- 10 people
○ 5 juniors (<21) ○ 5 seniors (21-25)
- National phase mid-summer
○ 20 people are selected ○ Jeopardy-style CTF
- Bootcamp in autumn
○ Training (attack-defense, etc) ○ Final selection 27
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Links
Website (romanian): www.cybersecuritychallenge.ro/ Website (EU): www.europeancybersecuritychallenge.eu/
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Thank you
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