• DocumentCode
    1262337
  • Title

    Winning Cybersecurity One Challenge at a Time

  • Author

    Gavas, Efstratios ; Memon, Nasir ; Britton, Douglas

  • Author_Institution
    Polytechnic Institute of New York University
  • Volume
    10
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    75
  • Lastpage
    79
  • Abstract
    Cybersecurity challenges, such as capture-the-flag competitions, test multidisciplinary teams´ security and hacking skills. Besides appealing to hackers´ competitive nature, participation in these events has become essential to developing successful cybersecurity professionals. Competitors benefit by experiencing the adversarial nature of live cyberincidents akin to traditional military and law enforcement training. Industry, government, and academia benefit by using these competitions for training and to spot emerging talent.
  • Keywords
    capture the flag; computer security; cybersecurity;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Security & Privacy, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1540-7993
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MSP.2012.112
  • Filename
    6265104