On September 28, at the two training facilities in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City of the Cryptography Technical Academy (Government Cipher Committee), the "National Information Security and Safety CIS 2024" competition took place for university students.
Hosted by the Cryptography Academy in coordination with units in the Cryptography industry and a number of IT and information security enterprises, the "CIS 2024 National Information Security and Safety" competition has the participation of 29 student teams from 16 universities and academies across the country.
Emphasizing the urgency of the issue of information security and safety, Associate Professor, Dr. Luong The Dung, Deputy Director of the Academy of Cryptography Engineering, said: In the context of the fourth industrial revolution and digital transformation, attacks on network systems, information theft, information leakage, and distortion... are taking place in a very complex, increasingly sophisticated and unpredictable manner, causing great damage in many aspects to each country.
Therefore, information security and safety requires the efforts and cooperation of many individuals, organizations and countries to be solved.
Mr. Luong The Dung also said that as a training and research unit on cryptography and information security under the Government Cipher Committee, the Cryptography Technical Academy is well aware that: In addition to the formal and serious training process to equip students with a systematic and in-depth knowledge and skills, competitions related to professional knowledge and skills are also a way to help students accumulate and apply knowledge and professional skills. Therefore, organizing playgrounds for students such as the national information security and safety competition CIS is a meaningful activity.
“This is the first time the contest has been held and is expected to be maintained annually. The contest aims to promote and disseminate awareness and responsibility for information security in training institutions; promote the movement of learning, research, cultivating, exchanging experiences, updating knowledge and modern technology in the field of information security. The contest also aims to discover talents, enhance the ability to exchange and share knowledge among students from schools across the country,” said a representative of the Organizing Committee of the CIS 2024 contest.
For 8 consecutive hours, from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on September 28, 29 student teams took part in a practical Jeopardy challenge, with 5 topics focusing on web application vulnerability exploitation skills, software/application vulnerability exploitation, reverse engineering, digital forensics, cryptographic algorithm analysis and programming. The total number of challenges in the competition was 20, with each topic having 4 challenges ranging from easy, medium to difficult.
According to the Organizing Committee's system, team 'KMA.NextGen' from the Cryptography Engineering Academy was the first team to solve the challenge. After 4 hours of competition, 9/20 challenges were solved, with most of them being easy and medium level challenges.
After about 6 hours of competition, the number of challenges solved by the teams was 12, with Crypto being the first area to have all the problems solved.
According to the Organizing Committee's statistics, 19 teams solved easy challenges, 7 teams solved medium challenges and only 3 teams solved difficult challenges.
Notably, in the final round of the competition, the two teams 'UIT.CoS' from the University of Information Technology - Ho Chi Minh City National University and 'HCMUT.so_u_think_i_can_dance' from the University of Technology - Ho Chi Minh City National University had a score chase.
In the end, the first prize of the competition belonged to team 'UIT.CoS' from University of Information Technology - Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City. Team 'HCMUT.so_u_think_i_can_dance' from University of Technology - Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City received the second prize.
The three third prize winning teams of the competition were 'HCMUT.idontthinkwehaveaname' from Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology - Vietnam National University, 'UIT.thefwncrew' from Ho Chi Minh City University of Information Technology - Vietnam National University, and 'KMA.NextGen' from Cryptography Engineering Academy.
Two teams from FPT University, 'FU.Breaking Bad', 'FU.today.0day?' and three teams from the Cryptography Engineering Academy, 'KMA.Call of Silence', 'KMA.Kotoamatsukami', 'KMA.M1X', won the Encouragement Prizes of the competition.
Thus, in the 10 awards of the "CIS 2024 National Information Security and Safety" competition that have just been awarded, universities and academies in the Southern region won 6 awards, including 1 First Prize, 1 Second Prize, 2 Third Prizes and 2 Encouragement Prizes. The Third Prize won by the 'KMA.NextGen' team of the Cryptography Engineering Academy is also the highest award that student teams from schools in the Northern region have achieved in this competition.
Source: https://vietnamnet.vn/dai-hoc-cntt-tphcm-vo-dich-cuoc-thi-an-toan-va-bao-mat-thong-tin-cis-2024-2326892.html
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