Title
Organizing large scale hacking competitions
Abstract
Computer security competitions and challenges are a way to foster innovation and educate students in a highly-motivating setting. In recent years, a number of different security competitions and challenges were carried out, each with different characteristics, configurations, and goals. From 2003 to 2007, we carried out a number of live security exercises involving dozens of universities from around the world. These exercises were designed as "traditional" Capture The Flag competitions, where teams both attacked and defended a virtualized host, which provided several vulnerable services. In 2008 and 2009, we introduced two completely new types of competition: a security "treasure hunt" and a botnet-inspired competition. These two competitions, to date, represent the largest live security exercises ever attempted and involved hundreds of students across the globe. In this paper, we describe these two new competition designs, the challenges overcome, and the lessons learned, with the goal of providing useful guidelines to other educators who want to pursue the organization of similar events
Year
Venue
Keywords
2010
DIMVA
highly-motivating setting,Organizing large scale,new type,different characteristic,computer security competition,new competition design,live security,largest live security,different security competition,botnet-inspired competition,Flag competition
DocType
Volume
ISSN
Conference
6201
0302-9743
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
3-642-14214-1
17
1.90
References 
Authors
4
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nicholas Childers1171.90
Bryce Boe258535.94
Lorenzo Cavallaro388652.85
Ludovico Cavedon415710.26
Marco Cova5142571.19
Manuel Egele61613102.07
Giovanni Vigna77121507.72