ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., June 20, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- EC-Council Foundation is bringing the 2019 finals of its annual worldwide hacking competition Global CyberLympics (GCL)(https://www.cyberlympics.org/) to the Region of Durham in Ontario because of the incredible investment in technology the leaders in the area are making.
It is evident that the region is an up-and-coming technology hub, and EC-Council Foundation (https://foundation.eccouncil.org/) is excited to support the mission of making Durham Region a world-leading center for cybersecurity and technology. To bring GCL to Canada for the first time, EC-Council Foundation is partnering with Canadian company siberX (https://siberx.org/). SiberX is a roaming, customized platform for training, events, and skills development and host of CISO Forum Canada (https://ciso.eccouncil.org/portfolio/ciso-forum-2019-canada/). There is an incredible amount of enthusiasm for the games in the Durham Region, with all 7 cities that make up the region participating in various ways to ensure the 2019 finals are the biggest and best yet. Previous world Finals for the Games have been held in Barcelona, Spain; Washington, DC; Atlanta, GA; and The Hague, Netherlands, making this the first GCL to be held in Canada.
Events like GCL provide a consequence-free environment for professionals to push their skills to the limits. Within the confines of the game, players can experiment with creative approaches to problems they may face in the real fight against cyber criminals. In fact, cyber games require players to try new tools, new techniques, and attacks with a high degree of risk if they hope to win. The best games build challenges that teams have not encountered before, going well beyond capture the flag (CTF) type of events that are common at conferences and online.
Year after year, the GCL challenges presented to the teams who make the finals are unexpected and impossible to train for. Teams have to rely on their skills and hope their instincts guide them to right solution. For instance, the 2018 Cyberlympics finals started with a set of challenges in a box. The challenges spanned from old school forensics to hacking a Bluetooth lock. What's was in the box? A plethora of network and building diagrams, a dossier, magazine for some light reading, a Bluetooth dongle, UV light, USB thumb drive and a shredded document.
Teams were required to reassemble their shredded document to retrieve a t0k3n that was left behind. Next, teams needed to determine which printer the dossier came from and where it was located on the network using the UV light and 'yellow dot forensics'. Then, without touching the Bluetooth lock, they had to open it using only their computer, a PCAP file and Bluetooth dongle.
Teams that successfully opened the lock were required to demonstrate the methods used in order to receive the networking gear which would get them access to the game board. From there, teams saw challenges ranging from network packet analysis, system exploitation, reverse engineering, malware analysis, digital forensics and of course plenty of physical challenges!
The 12 hour-long, online regional elimination round will be held September 7th. Teams that finish in the top two of their region will be invited to compete for the title of World Champion in Durham Region, Ontario Canada. The in-person GCL Finals will be held October 26. Visit https://www.cyberlympics.org/ for competition and team registration information.
About EC-Council Foundation
EC-Council Foundation is a 501c3 charitable and educational organization dedicated to educating and training individuals in cyber security. Established in 2012 by EC-Council, the foundation seeks to raise awareness, build capacity across nations and ultimately unify global cyber defense. EC-Council Foundation is the creator and organizer of Global CyberLympics, Hacker Halted, TakeDownCon, The Global CISO Form and Live.Learn.Secure., an education and training program. For more information regarding EC-Council Foundation or any of its programs, visit https://foundation.eccouncil.org.
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