Vegas To Host Next U.S. Cyber Challenge 'NetWars'

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http://www.darkreading.com/advanced-threats/167901091/security/attacks-breaches/231500070/vegas-to-host-next-u-s-cyber-challenge-netwars.html

By Kelly Jackson Higgins
Dark Reading
Aug 16, 2011

More than 100 security professionals next month will compete in a two-day 
cybersecurity competition that simulates real-world attackers and attacks.

The SANS NetWars contest -- part of the U.S. Cyber Challenge program -- will 
be held as part of the SANS Network Security 2011 conference at Caesars Palace 
in Las Vegas. The contest is for both new and seasoned hackers.

Capture-the-flag (CTF) type hacking contests are nothing new in cybersecurity. 
What makes NetWars different than say, DefCon's CTF, is that it's aimed at all 
levels of hacking skills and all competitors have to begin at level one of the 
contest, says Ed Skoudis, director of NetWars for SANS. The more advanced 
players can then quickly advance to higher levels -- up to level four, then 
five, where the participant gets access to a system at the root level, he says. 
"Level five is for people who really know their stuff. There's castle-on-castle 
combat," Skoudis says.

"DefCon is a big-team CTF focused on binary analysis and exploit development. 
That's cool and a fantastic skill," Skoudis says. "That's not what NetWars is 
focused on. Ours includes this, too, but it's multilevel and 
multidisciplinary."

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