Capture the Flag registrations are now closed. Our CTF organising committee will now be reviewing the submissions to ensure the registrations meet the criteria. They will be in touch on next steps via email.

WiCSME is proud to present its 1st WiCSME2020 Capture The Flag (CTF) competition in collaboration with SANS via their SANS Virtual BootUp CTF platform.

WiCSME2020 CTF will help you sharpen your skills during these difficult times. As cyber criminals are not resting up during COVID-19, and we’re spending more time within our homes, it would be a great opportunity to invest this time positively by building up your capabilities and get rewarded for doing so!!

Yes, you heard it right; there is valuable prizes for the Top Three winning teams.

The SANS Virtual BootUp CTF platform is developed in a way that grants you an amazing and unique experience that will yield in a great exercise through solving different challenges. This will help in building your and your team members’ cybersecurity skills.

Registrations open on 10th September 2020 and will be open to the first 200 registrants.

Please read the eligibility criteria and guidelines before registration. Failure to adhere to any of the criteria or guidelines will result in being disqualified from the CTF.

CTF Eligibility Criteria

CTF Participants must adhere to following criteria to qualify to compete:

• Team Size can be between 1 upto 4 participants.
• Each team must have at least 1 female member.
• Team members must be citizen or resident in Middle East.

About The Competition

CTF is a Cyber Security competition where participants demonstrate their technical ability in the cyber security field. CTF competition participants include anyone who is interested in Cyber Security.

• Various challenges, with easy, medium, hard and extreme difficulty.
• Challenges span offensive, forensic, defensive and Appsec disciplines.
• 'Jeopardy' style CTF where participants can play in any order and focus on easier or harder content.
• Challenges require use of hands-on skills, tools and provide real targets, real memory captures and challenging analysis scenarios.
• The environment is designed to be played entirely remotely.

This Cybersecurity "Mixed Discipline" CTF series contains 3 levels of challenges outlined below:

BootUp - Beginner

Challenges cover forensics, defensive, offensive, OSINT and more. The challenges are rich with hints and provide a lot of encouragement for newcomers. In this environment participants will get a mixture of trivia questions, web application/interactive problem solving and binary/service challenges where they interact with real problems, but skewed towards the more accessible and intuitive. A number of the challenges simply require research and reconnaissance allowing students to discover a new talent for security, but also more basic security targets. Students that are capturing their first flags to practice or have completed basic security training will get the opportunity to apply their skills practically and problem solve.

BootUp - Intermediate

Challenges cover forensics, defensive, offensive, OSINT and more. The intermediate challenges provide challenging targets that require participants to defeat mitigations or work around some of the more common obstacles. In this environment content participants will get far more live targets and real samples to handle, including services that exhibit common flaws found in IoT devices, enterprise web applications and beyond. A true mixed discipline experience to break down the silos in security and let people try their hand at a lot of different technical skills.

BootUp - Advanced

Challenges cover forensics, defensive, offensive, OSINT and more. The advanced challenges are designed to present participants with difficult mitigations and obstacles, such as active security countermeasures used in modern environments. Targets in this range are predominantly realistic and live targets and the hard and extreme challenges are often more difficult than common security tasks, focused on the most difficult problems. At the highest levels modern day exploit writing that bypasses advanced operating system mitigations and complex encrypted forensic assets feature in the content. This content will tax the most capable security practitioners and provides minimal assistance to their progress – a true challenge!

Rules of Engagement

CTF Participants must adhere to following rules of engagement.

• Participants may use any tools at their disposal, including those that they find on the Internet.
• Problem solving and winning against targets with creativity is the goal.
• Participants should not publish the challenge solutions to others. Questions are rotated but this ruins the value of practice for others.
• Players can play individually or could be paired up for mentoring purposes. However, to be eligible for the WiCSME2020 CTF Prize please consider teams creation rules and eligibility criteria stated above.
• The rules of engagement for the event are displayed and must be accepted when the participant joins the event.

WiCSME2020 CTF Registration

• Click the above button to to register yourself and your team to WiCSME2020 CTF.
• Registration is open to the first 200 registrants.
• Registration details will be reviewed by our Program Committee.
• You may receive communication from: "[email protected]" in case of any missing details.
• Please contact us in case of any queries via email: [email protected].

WiCSME2020 Prizes

The top three winning teams will be given amazing prizes. Details of the prizes will be announced soon, Stay tuned!!

Identities of the winning team will be verified prior to disbursing the prizes.