SecuriTech Challenge has ended
There is an event that is quite interesting to follow, from an IT security point of view. Since a few years the SecuriTech Challenge allows security experts to focus during three weeks on really complex challenges online.
Clearly aimed at highly skilled security experts, those challenges require a lot of knowledge in several disciplines, since to win the prices the candidates have to solve different puzzles involving network security, systems security, secure coding practice, in-depth attacks and defense, all areas of cryptology including cryptography, cryptanalysis and steganography, rootkit and evasion tools coding, API hooking, memory patching, kernel modules writing, reverse-engineering, software obfuscation and protection evasion, forensics and so on… As you can see, during those three weeks the candidates are really kept busy and I guess they don’t sleep a lot.
The challenge has ended yesterday at midnight, and this evening there will be a closing ceremony, with distribution of the prices to the winners. I’m impatient to go there, as this will be an extraordinary meeting of french security gurus. Of course among those, there will be some “black-hat” oriented people, but I still believe that it is worth to meet them to discuss and understand their behaviour and motivations.
On the SecuriTech website, all the solutions of the previous challenges are online. It is really worth spending some time to have a look at them, since they are really great puzzles that reflects state-of-the-art of IT security’s technical side.
Bruno Kerouanton on mai 19th 2006 in IT Security
