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Conference Organisation:

• Announcement
• Room / Space for the University Challenge
  • Internet connection
  • Video projector (scoring/ranking)
  • Power and extensions
• Outreach to the local Universities
• Sponsor for winner prizes
• Winner announcement during the main track / (before) end of the conference

Outline:

During the two training days

• challenges will be organized together with Hacking-Lab
• Hardware (challenge server) come from Hacking-Lab
• Hardware (wilreless routers) come form the Education Committee

Expenses:

• Travel and lodging has to be organized and covered by the student teams themselves, the conference should feed the students

• Travel and lodging of the University Challenge project leader (running the challenge) is covered by the conference

• It is recommended to give the University Challenge teams free entrance to the conference

Prices:

We could need the conference organization team to help finding sponsors for the prices.

Previous events:

• AppSec EU 2016 Rome
• AppSec EU 2015 Amsterdam
• AppSec EU 2014 Cambridge
• AppSec-EU 2013 Hamburg
• AppSec-EU 2012 Athens
• AppSec-US 2012 Austin
• AppSec-US 2011 Minneapolis

Ticket winning" pre-conference challenges:

-> option for conference to offer free tickets via solving Hacking-Lab challenges -> qualifying for UC? -> Team qualifying

   Q1: When typically has the event run at AppSec, during the training days or during conference proper?
   A1: The UC is normally hosted during the training days

   Q2: What size of room or seating capacity has typically been used?
   A2: Depending to the PR and number of teams (teams have a max of 8 members)

   Q3: What prizes are usually awarded?
   A3: depends, if the conference manages to find sponsors there are prices. At the AppSec-Eu 2013, there where no prices, only the honor of winning

   Q4: Do the teams  have free conference access?
   A4: No, the teams have to organize travel and lodging themself. all we do is hosting the UC and feed them.
   There are no entrance / attendance fees charged previously
   The attendees usually get free access to the conference (because they travel from foreign countries too) 

Hacking-Lab

The University Challenge is run by the OWASP/Hacking-Lab project. Real knowledge derives from hands-on experience.

About Hacking-Lab

Hacking-Lab is an online ethical hacking, computer network and security challenge platform, dedicated to finding and educating cyber security talents.

Furthermore, Hacking-Lab is providing the CTF and mission style challenges for the OWASP University Challenges and for the European Cyber Security Challenge. The Hacking-Lab also provides free OWASP TOP 10 online security labs. Hacking-Labs’ goal is to raise awareness towards increased education and ethics in information security through a series of cyber competitions that encompass forensics, cryptography, reverse-engineering, ethical hacking and defense.

Learn more about Hacking-Lab

• University Challenge 2017 @ AppSec EU in Belfast (Martin Knobloch)

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what is this project? Name: OWASP University Challenge (home page) Purpose: As first time organized at the OWASP AppSec-US 2011 in Minneapolis, this project is to enable "attack & defend" challenges. First, at OWASP AppSec conferences, later also to enable this outside AppSec conferences. License: Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 License who is working on this project? Project Leader(s): Ivan Buetler @ Mateo Martinez @ how can you learn more? Project Pamphlet: Not Yet Created Project Presentation: Mailing list: Mailing List Archives Project Roadmap: View Key Contacts Contact Ivan Buetler @ to contribute to this project Contact Ivan Buetler @ to review or sponsor this project

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