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Solution Grading & Evaluation Guidelines for Teachers

• Always be polite
  • Never ever be unpolite. No matter what comment or question you receive!
  • You are OWASP's interface, behave mature and polite.
• Comment in positive phrasing
  • E.g. if partially scored has been achieved, congratulate them
  • If the solution contains a good write-up, let them know you appreciate!
  • If they thank you for the event, return the favor e.g. thanks for contributing
• Teaching and mentoring
  • If a previous suggestion is not understand, try to rephrase
• No abusive language is permitted
  • If you receive any in a solution, don't 'hit back'
  • See what is causing the frustration, see if you can help is, let Ivan or Martin know

Rating:

• Understanding the vulnerability is essential
  • If a solution describes the vulnerability, this does scores points.

• Mitigation scores higher than hacking:
  • We are training security awareness! If mitigation is asked as part of the solution, this scores higher then exploitation
• Exploiting is essential
  • The exploit has to be proven, but a solution that describes the exploit detailed, this is fine too!
• Give points when possible
  • If not the complete answer has been supplied, give partial points when possible.
  • Only reject if:
    • there is no solution (e.g. a question asked by the student)
    • the solution is answering the wrong challenge
    • the vulnerability / exploit / mitigation has clearly not been understood

• Rating example:
  • If you have 10 points to give this is how to divide them:
    • 3 Points for vulnerability description
    • 3 Points for proven exploit
    • 4 Points for complete mitigation description

Volunteers

OWASP Hacking-Lab is developed by a worldwide team of volunteers. The primary contributors to date have been:

• Ivan Buetler
• Martin Knobloch
• Mateo Martinez

Volunteer Roles

• Challenge developer
• Challenge tester
• LiveCD developer
• Teachers (solution grading)
• University Challenge Organizer

Involvement in the development and promotion of Hack Lab is actively encouraged! You do not have to be a security expert in order to contribute.

Become an OWASP challenge participant/student

• Register to a free OWASP Hands-On Training (see tab "Available Challenges")
• Sign-Up a Hacking-Lab account
• Prepare your client infrastructure (recommended LiveCD from http://media.hacking-lab.com/)
• Setup VPN from within your LiveCD
• Read the challenge description (once registered in the first step)
• Submit your solution into the HL portal
• OWASP volunteers will grade your submission

Become an OWASP teacher

• Solve the challenges as participant/student first
• Make yourself familiar with the OWASP TOP 10, Hackademics and WebGoat challenges
• Ask for becoming a teacher to the project leaders

Become an OWASP challenge developer

• Solve the challenges as participant/student first
• Submit your challenge ideas (using the challenge concept template)
• Create your challenge

Become an OWASP challenge tester

• Solve the challenges as participant/student first
• Submit your feedback and ideas how to improve the challenges

Introduction

The OWASP Hacking-Lab project is the framework used for the OWASP AppSec University Challenges.

This is an on-site university team versus university team competition run during the training days of an AppSec conference. See more here: OWASP University Challenge

Attack-Defense System

The challenges are even more dynamic and realistic now. Instead of just solving different security challenges, teams carry out a virtual online battle against each other in an attack-defense based competition, also known as CTF system. If you are interested to learn more about the CTF system, you will find here more information: CTF System

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

Questions

Please review University Challenge FAQ

European Cyber Security Challenge 2016

Introduction

Today, most countries lack sufficient IT security professionals to protect their IT infrastructure. To help mitigate this problem, many of them set up national cyber security competitions for finding young cyber talents and for encouraging them to pursue a career in cyber security.

The European Cyber Security Challenge (ECSC) leverages these competitions in that it adds a pan-European layer to them: The top cyber talents from each country meet to network and collaborate and finally compete against each other to determine which country has the best cyber talents. To find out which country's team is the best, contestants have to solve security related tasks from domains such as web security, mobile security, crypto puzzles, reverse engineering and forensics and collect points for solving them.

How to join the ECSC 2016

• How to join the ECSC 2016