Description

UAE National Cyber Security CTF is a cyber security competition where participants demonstrate their technical abilities. It is supported by the government and provides the highest cash prizes for the winning teams. UAE National Cyber Security CTF winners are eligible to compete in regional and international CTFs representing UAE. The CTF will be a Jeopardy Style CTF where every team will have a list of challenges in different categories like Reverse Engineering, Web Security, Digital Forensics, Network Security and others. For every challenge solved, the team will get a certain amount of points depending on the difficulty of the challenge. The team who will get the highest score at the end of the day will be the winning team. Teams Number of Team members: 2-3 members with the below conditions : At least two members of the team must be undergraduates in any UAE university or school. One Mentor is allowed to join the team , the mentor is a professional working in cyber security field that can provides technical mentorship to his/her team before and during the CTF. (Mentors are allowed to be one of the team during the competition) Every Team should have a team leader, that is responsible to build the team and he will be the main contact to the organizers. Moving members between teams is allowed two days before the competition Mentors or undergraduates team players can’t be a member of multiple teams Although we prefer that undergraduates represent their universities but there is no restrictions on having members from different universities at the same team

Competition prerequisites

Prerequisite Competition:

This competition requires participation in "Egypt and UAE National Cyber Security CTF Quals 2017" and winning a score of at least 100

Conditions

1- Any attack against the site or the hosted servers will be observed and teams might be banned from participating in the CTF. 2- Running Automation tools are not allowed and won't help you complete the challenge. 3- Sharing flags between different teams is prohibited. 4- Brute Force attacks on the challenges submission portal or challenges links are not allowed 5- Any trials for interrupting the CTF, or any unethical behaviour, Organizers has the permission to disqualify teams

 Prizes

5,000 USD Cash prize for the Winning Team sponsored by Dell SecureWorks 2,000 USD Cash prize for the team selected as Rising UAE Star by Noon All winning teams will receive medals All teams will receive t-shirts

 Contacts

[email protected] +971 56 9540127