Congratulations to everyone who participated in the 5th NZ Cyber Security Challenge. Well Done!

We are proud to announce the Grand Winner of the Challenge

Team Elliptic Curveballs(Logan Krippner, Michael Jang and Jacob Cheatley) of Tertiary Category

Round 1 & 2 Winner of Secondary Category

Team PHP Pirates(Josh Hogan and Sam Hogan)

Round 1 & 2 Winner of Tertiary Category

Team Password Inspectors(Jamie McClymont and Rhys Davies)

Round 1 & 2 Winner of Industry Category

Team Dark Arts from Endace (Deepak Ramaprasad, L Liu and Andreas Lof)
they passed their prize on to the runners-up
Team Arcton(Jeremy Symon and Grady Hooker)

Round 1 & 2 Runner ups of Secondary Category

Team Arrays Start at 1 (Ethyn Gillies, Paul Bouda and James Voss)

Round 1 & 2 Runner ups of Tertiary Category

Team Elliptic Curveballs (Logan Krippner, Michael Jang and Jacob Cheatly)

Round 1 & 2 Runner ups of Industry Category

Team Arcton(Jeremy Symon and Grady Hooker)
they passed their prize on to the second runners-up Team Purple (James Donaldson and Tom Crisp)

Top 3 Winners of Drone Challenge

Team Banana Bread (Praneet Castelino, Dylan Amyes and Yek Tham) of Industry Category
Team Spectre(James Fyfe, Aoran Isaacs and Leon Bowie) of Secondary Category
Team UniHack(Arnav Gogia and Rajat Rokhade) of Tertiary Category

Winner of Women Technical Competition

Team Octocats(Jamie McClymont and Abigail Koay)

Runner up of Women Technical Competition

Team Partially Human(Meleena Radcliffe)

To check full list of winners of different challenges, please click here.

To check Solutions of Rounds please go to Solution Section of the website.

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CSC 17

FIRST PLACE

2017 challenge known for Challenge Winner Repeat Performance .
It was a repeat performance by the overall champions team Arcton, Nathaniel Watson, Jeremy Symon and Grady Hooker took out last year's Challenge.

Representing industry, they walked away with a cheque for $2500 and NetHui fellowships. Jeremy is currently doing a Masters of Computer Science at Waikato and working at Gallagher, and Grady and Nathaniel are former Waikato Computer Science students now working in the computer science industry.

RUNNERS UP

overall runners-up 418ShortAndStout - Michael Robertson and Brent Vollebregt - placed top in the tertiary division and took home $1800.

Top performers in the high school division after Rounds 1 and 2, SQL Sharks twins Sam and Josh Hogan also took out first place in the new Policy Round. Contestants were tested on responsible disclosures, asked to critique a really badly-written cyber policy, and suggest incident response next steps for a fictitious event.

The winning team from the industry division after Rounds 1 and 2 were Jack Haystead, Daniel Tebbutt and Declan ter Veer-Burke. They took home a cheque for $1800.

WHAT HAPPENED?

nZCSC'17 hit all the right keys with VIPs from the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) and INTERPOL attending. GCSB director Andrew Hampton told the Challengers it wasn't long ago that people were saying cyber security should be on the agenda but now the agenda is cyber security.

although, In this year's Challenge CROW collaborated with Japan's National Institute of Communications and Information Technology ( NICT ) to up the ante in the visualisation of the attack and defend networks of the competition. CROW member Cameron Brown worked with Koei Suzuki to customise the NIRVANA Kai visualisation to show network traffic between the Round 3 servers. The collaboration is mutually beneficial as NICT will utilise CROW technology in the future. NICT supply the visualisations for Japan's largest cyber security competition SECCON.

CSC 2016

FIRST PLACE

team Name: Hodor (462,250 points)
team Members: Sjoerd de Feijter, Matthew Stringer, Vladimir Petko
industry category team, representing Gallagher Group

RUNNERS UP

First Runner-Up

Team Name: Solo Team(406,160 points)
Team Members: Michael Robertson, 17 years old,
Secondary School Category team, representing Cambridge High School.

Second Runner-Up

Team Name: Arcton(386,300 points)
Team members: jeremy Symon, Nathaniel Watson, Grady Hooker
Tertiary category team, representing University of Waikato Faculty of Computing And Mathematical Sciences

WHAT HAPPENED?

due to the popularity of the competition in 2015, we introduced an online qualifying round, Round Zero. 267 participants registered for Round Zero and attempted the challenges between the 17 June - 1st July, after which the Top 150 were chosen to attend the competition on the 14 and 15 July.

participants competed in two rounds: Round One, a capture-the-flag style challenge and Round Two, a Red team vs. Blue team game where the Blue teams had to defend their vulnerable servers from attacks from the Red teams, which consisted of an Industry Professional from Gallagher and two CROW members.

CSC 2015

FIRST PLACE

team Name: ter B

RUNNERS UP

First Runner-Up

Team Name: DoubleMC

Second Runner-Up

Team Name: Kanye4Prez

WHAT HAPPENED?

nZCSC'15 was open to all of New Zealand and participants were split into 3 categories: Secondary, Tertiary, and Industry/Open.

the competition had 2 rounds: Round 1 was a capture-the-flag style challenge. Round 2, open to the top 5 teams of Round 1, was a Red team vs. Blue team style challenge where 5 Blue teams defended their systems against the Red team, which included Industry professionals from Insomnia Security and PWC Digital.

CSC 2014

the first instalment of the Cyber Security Challenge was open to University of Waikato students only.

cSC'14 had a single round - a capture-the-flag style challenge where the students participants solved challenges to acquire flags. The event served its purpose: to gauge students' interest in a Cyber Security-themed competition. Over 70 students registered, attended the training and paticipated in the competition, which encouraged the organisers to plan the next CSC.

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