We want to draw your attention to the following upcoming competitions. Student travel costs can be directly funded by the competition.
Prof. Polian, head of the Institute of Computer Architecture and Computer Engineering is member of the
European Master Network on Embedded System Security that will meet during the Cyber Security Awareness Week (CSAW19) and will be glad to support your participation.
The Announcement for students can be found below. For more details refer to the contest information sheet and the CSAW2019 presentation.
Announcement:
Grenoble-INP Esisar is organizing in Valence, France the European edition of the Cybersecurity Awareness Week
(https://csaw.io/intl-locations/csaw-europe) in collaboration with New York University (csaw.io).
Linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/csaw-europe
Besides this year's CTF competition, we would also like to bring your attention to the Embedded Security Challenge (ESC) competition (https://www.csaw.io/esc)
which will take place right after the CTF competition of CSAW:
ESC 2019 - Competition details and registration: https://github.com/TrustworthyComputing/csaw_esc_2019
This year's topic is Radio Frequency Identification (RFID). RFID is utilized as a security measure in everything from building
access to user authentication in computing systems. The 2019 challenge will task competitors with hacking the firmware of a
vulnerable RFID reader with professional level United States National Security Agency (NSA) reverse engineering tools. Competitors
will gain experience with the NSA Ghidra tool, firmware exploitation, RFID protocols, and possibly hardware functional testing.
The ESC19 competition is divided into three phases:
- A preliminary Qualification phase, where teams must compile and submit a written report characterizing exploits and reverse engineering techniques that they utilized to break a provided program.
- A Final phase, where qualified teams are invited to the CSAW event of their region to present and demonstrate their attack implementations on the custom systems provided by the organizers.
- A Live phase, where qualified teams will be provided with a special challenge binary on the day of the ESC finals in their region.
The contestants will then race to solve the challenge, demonstrating their reverse engineering skills!
Finalists for the three competitions are granted to come in Valence, France for on-site competitions:
• All finalists will be provided with housing in hotel rooms
• Finalists who are students of a European University outside France will be provided with a fixed travel grant of 250 euros
• Finalists who are students of French Universities will be provided with a travel grant of up to 250 euros maximum, available upon demand
Awards will be given for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place (respectively 700, 500 and 300 euros)
Please let us know if you are interested to participate with one or more teams from your university!
Thank you,
Athanasios PAPADIMITRIOU
Hardware Security Research Engineer & CSAW Europe project leader
Grenoble Institute of Technology
Email CSAW: csaw-europe@esisar.grenoble-inp.fr
CSAW Linkedin: [ https://www.linkedin.com/company/csaw-europe/ | https://www.linkedin.com/company/csaw-europe/ ]
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