Our hacker won the final Cyber ​​Challenge in the EMEA region

Vlad at the finals in Russia

Remember, we had here the Russian finals of the Symantec Cyber ​​Challenge and the conference on information security, at which a simple American guy Kevin Mitnick performed enchantingly? So, then won v0s , who went to Nice to represent our country in the final round.

Even in Moscow, he was very impressed with the experts with speed - he went ahead with a huge margin, managed to calmly watch all the storyline scenes and go for a little snack during the tournament.
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In general, he won the EMEA Cyber ​​Readiness Challenge Final . And shares his impressions.


The participants. If we compare with the players in our final - ours are usually younger.


Another participant in the final


Technical corner

V0S:

In general, the event was incredibly pleasant, really worthy rivals from all over the world came. What is surprising, most of the finalists have long been professionally working in the field of security, many have their own business. All in suits, and I in a T-shirt and shorts :-D Accordingly, in terms of age, the players, too, surpassed me by 5-10 years.

Unlike the Moscow stage, here I was already not familiar with anyone in advance, and it was endlessly interesting to talk with people who are professionally engaged in information security, who are also really busy in many areas at once - they passed to the final.

Medals

The number of assignments was descending: there were almost 100 flags in the online tour, and there were about 40 qualifiers in Moscow. In the final there were 23 flags, of which, by the way, the last three were impossible to take :-) The joke from the organizers was before these three flags wrote something like "well, the next three tasks are protected by a product from Symantec, try to wag aha"

In the end, in 4 hours of play, I took 19 flags out of 20 solved.

Symantec came up with an unusual way to reward participants: in addition to the main prizes for 1, 2, 3, they also handed out small awards for all kinds of game achievements: first to take 5 flags, first to go to the next level, etc. He took everything except the awards for the first 5 flags - they were managed by the high-speed Italian Paolo Perrucci before them. He eventually took 3rd place.

Award Hall and Dinner


Vlad with a medal and organizers

In general, everything was done nicely and with love for the players. The hotel on the coast overlooking the sea, the competition in the exhibition complex, the award ceremony in a prestigious restaurant and interesting rivals. It will be remembered for a long time :-)

Cup and medal


And the beach in October

The second and third places were taken, respectively, by Andrea Minigozzi and Paolo Perrucci from Italy.

You can read about our final here officially , and here from the participants themselves .