Adobe is a Sponsor for the Nation’s Largest Student Cyber Security Competition
- Rajat Shah for Adobe Secure Software Engineering Team (ASSET) Blog December 4th, 2012
- Source: http://blogs.adobe.com/asset/2012/12/adobe-is-a-sponsor-for-the-nations-largest-student-cyber-security-competition.html
ASSET team members Karthik Raman, Bronwen Matthews and I recently attended the NYU Poly CSAW IX Cyber Security competition in Brooklyn, New York. The annual event first took place in 2003 and has since grown from a small, local cyber security competition to a worldwide event. This year, more than 10,000 students from high school to Ph.D level registered to compete in a total of seven CSAW challenges.
Karthik and I contributed four Web challenges to the “Capture the Flag” competition, which were designed to be similar to real-world scenarios hackers face. The challenges were related to commonly found bugs, but required the hacker to deduce the nature of the bug without much feedback from the website. The students responded with a pragmatic approach to the problems, and the competition was won by a team from Carnegie Mellon University. There was also an embedded systems challenge, a forensics challenge and an applied research competition.
