OWASP University Challenge

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• How to get the UC at your conference
• University Challenge Events
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• Project About

The OWASP University Challenge is a two day attack and defend event during the AppSec conferences training days!
University / Student teams can compete solving hack challenges and defending insecure applications.

The AppSec conference should take care of:

• Venue / rooms during the conference training days
• Feed the students
• Local pr / announcements at local Universities

Hardware:

Upcoming events:

• AppSec-EU 2013 Hamburg
• AppSec-US 2013 New York

Previous events:

• AppSec-US 2011 Minneapolis
• AppSec-EU 2012 Athens
• AppSec-US 2012 Austing

Ticket winning" pre-conference challenges:

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

responsibilities:

Conference Organisation:

• Announcement
• event room
  • internet connection required
• 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 themself The Conference should feed the students, only expense for the conference

Prices:

We could need the conference orga-team to help finding sponsors for the prices

• HOWTO sign up
• HOWTO prepare

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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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