Hackathon Challenge 2021

Securing the cloud

Cybersecurity competition on 1 December

Now more than ever, organisations need to prioritise a "cloud first" approach to enable their companies to transform with agility at scale.

This year, PwC Singapore is hosting its first Hackathon Challenge where undergraduate students are given the opportunity to showcase their skills and knowledge in the cybersecurity field. Students get to put their skills to work in new ways as they navigate through real-world complex questions, designed to hone their expertise in tackling today’s cloud challenges.

The competition also hopes to increase the awareness of cybersecurity and its importance among youths in Singapore, while serving as a platform to raise the competency level of future talents to better prepare them for a meaningful career in cybersecurity.

This event is inspired by the annual HackaDay, now in its fifth year running, founded by PwC Hong Kong which also provides the digital platform and infrastructure powering Hackathon Challenge 2021.

When

1 December 2021 (Wednesday)

8:30am - 4:30pm

Where

Virtual

Who

Participants

Full-time undergraduate university students in their penultimate or final year, based in Singapore.

Judging panel

PwC Hong Kong Cybersecurity and Privacy team

Agenda

Time	Agenda
8:30am - 9:00am	Registration
9:00am - 9:15am	Welcome remarks and briefing
9:15am - 4:00pm	Competition
4:00pm - 4:30pm	Results announcement and award presentation

Rules

Teams are not permitted to collaborate during the competition.
The competition will test the skills and knowledge of teams under six hacking categories. Students have to attempt all to score the highest points possible:
- Cloud – The cloud challenge tests the teams' capability to resolve real-life complex questions using cloud resources, including network service discovery, vulnerability assessment and exploitation against common network protocols and infrastructure architecture.
- Cloud IoT – The cloud IoT challenge tests the teams' ability to address challenges using cloud IoT devices and applications.
- Red Team and Blue Team – The red team and blue team challenge tests the teams' understanding of the enterprise’s infrastructure and ability to execute the attack path used in real world cyberattacks, as well as some threat hunting techniques.
- Threat Intelligence and Incident Response – The threat intelligence and incident response challenge tests the teams’ ability to respond to threat and incident on a timely basis.
- Web – The web challenge tests the teams’ ability to analyse and exploit poor configuration and vulnerabilities in different web services and programme logic.
- Binary – The binary challenge seeks to test the teams’ knowledge on binary analysis, analytical thought process and the ability to think out of the box.

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Scoring

Two to six challenges per category.
Difficulty level varies for each challenge, with scores ranging from 50 to 500.
The winner will be determined by the team attaining the highest score.
If two teams attain the same score, the team completing the challenge in the shortest time prevails.

Prizes

Champion team

SGD 5,000
An internship in our Risk Assurance practice;
or direct entry to PwC’s Experience Day*/case study assessment for final year students

First runner-up

SGD 3,000
An internship in our Risk Assurance practice;
or direct entry to PwC’s Experience Day*/case study assessments for final year students

Second runner-up

SGD 1,000
An internship in our Risk Assurance practice;
or direct entry to PwC’s Experience Day*/case study assessments for final year students

*The PwC Experience Day (sometimes referred to as PwC assessment centre) provides an immersive day-in-the-life experience for interviewees. It is designed to mirror a typical working day if you were offered the job and brings together everything you have learnt about life at PwC in previous stages of the interview process. You will also be given exciting case studies to work on that serve to broaden your knowledge and skills, while you receive real-time feedback on your performance!

Find out more about our internship and graduate programmes