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Ten Years of iCTF: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

Wednesday, July 23, 2014 - 3:30pm
Authors: 

Giovanni Vigna, Kevin Borgolte, Jacopo Corbetta, Adam Doupe, Yanick Fratantonio, Luca Invernizzi, Dhilung Kirat, and Yan Shoshitaishvili, University of California, Santa Barbara

Abstract: 

Security competitions have become a popular way to foster security education by creating a competitive environment in which participants go beyond the effort usually required in traditional security courses. Live security competitions (also called "Capture The Flag," or CTF competitions) are particularly well-suited to support handson experience, as they usually have both an attack and a defense component. Unfortunately, because these competitions put several (possibly many) teams against one another, they are difficult to design, implement, and run. This paper presents a framework that is based on the lessons learned in running, for more than 10 years, the largest educational CTF in the world, called iCTF. The framework's goal is to provide educational institutions and other organizations with the ability to run customizable CTF competitions. The framework is open and leverages the security community for the creation of a corpus of educational security challenges.

Giovanni Vigna, University of California, Santa Barbara

Kevin Borgolte, University of California, Santa Barbara

Jacopo Corbetta, University of California, Santa Barbara

Adam Doupe, University of California, Santa Barbara

Yanick Fratantonio, University of California, Santa Barbara

Luca Invernizzi, University of California, Santa Barbara

Dhilung Kirat, University of California, Santa Barbara

Yan Shoshitaishvili, University of California, Santa Barbara

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