First Annual WOW Iron Chef of Information Security Challenge-Call for Participation!
Sponsored by the World Organization of Webmasters (WOW) and Government Technology Conference (GTC), Sacramento, CA 2004.
Folsom, CA – March 27, 2004: WOW and GTC issued a Call for Participation regarding the First annual Iron Chef of Information Security Contest for government technology professionals, to be held on Thursday, May 12, 2004 on the exhibit floor of the GTC Conference and Exposition. (GTC will be held May 11-13, 2004 at the Sacramento Convention Center.)
Calling all Web Administrators, Security Specialist and Network Engineers!
This event will challenge government team Web Administrators, Network and
Security Specialist to evaluate and fix the security vulnerabilities present
in Internet DMZ architecture. The event will occur live during the GTC conference
and give the audience a first-hand look at how security professionals perform
their jobs. The competition will be a head-to-head format with each team competing
against the clock and the other teams.
Who Will Reign Supreme?
Contestants will submit two person teams of Security and/or Network Engineers
who will identify and fix security problems in a pre-configured network and
server architecture. The event will last a full day with the following stages
and schedule:
This is an all-day event with the following schedule:
- 10:00am - Start – Teams gain access to the architecture
- 10:30am – 2:00 pm – Analysis and Fix – Teams assess the architecture, identify security problems, and fix security problems
- 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm – Presentation – Each team will present the security problems they found and how they corrected the problem
- 3:30 pm – 4:00 pm – Judgment – A panel of judges will analyze the results using agreed upon criterion and determine a winner
- 4:00 pm – Winner announced
Making the grade
The teams must have no knowledge of the exact architecture used prior to the
contest. The DMZ architecture will have known security vulnerabilities. Each
of the vulnerabilities will be assigned a point value based on the degree
of difficulty. Teams will register vulnerabilities as they find them with
the judges, and a running point total will be displayed showing each teams
progress. A bonus will be awarded to the team that finds each unique vulnerability
first. However, points alone will not determine a winner.