Hackathon Challenge 2022: Securing by the crowd

Securing by the crowd

It is crucial to marshal a centralised platform so that cybersecurity talents around the world can congregate, while future cybersecurity talents can begin to learn, hack and co-secure the environment and society in the near future. The centralised platform is a cyber ecosystem carrying a cycle of learn to hack and hack to learn, such that the goal of nurture, upskill and reskill cybersecurity talents around the world can be accomplished and continuously contributing to the ecosystem.

Why you should join?

PwC Singapore celebrates the need for students to develop a deeper understanding of the ecosystem in cybersecurity and cloud. With a Hackathon challenge, based off of PwC Hong Kong’s annual flagship event Hackaday, we enable students to explore the elements that shape a meaningful career in cybersecurity.

In our 2nd edition of the competition, Hackathon serves as an international platform to raise the competency level of future talents, unlike any you would usually participate in. Not only do you get the chance to compete with your peers in Singapore, but you also have the opportunity to test yourself against teams in Hong Kong and Macau.

Participants of PwC’s Hackathon are expected to have a basic understanding of developing a data lake infrastructure on a designated platform, building virtual machines, network components, databases to support one’s infrastructure and eventually auto deploy in cloud via CI/CD pipelines.

Students should also consider to include a UI UX element so that users without too much knowledge of cloud can easily define basic parameters to self-service the deployment, by providing their own account credentials and network/ storage requirements.

The deployment should make use of orchestration and automation through DevSecOps. And the deployed platform should be secure since day 1.

When

Thursday, 24 November 2022
8am - 5pm

Where

PwC Singapore Office, 7 Straits View, Marina One, Singapore 018936
Singapore teams will also join the Hong Kong and Macau teams virtually

Participants

Full-time undergraduate university students from Singapore, Hong Kong and Macau as of academic year 2022/2023

Judging panel

PwC Hong Kong Cybersecurity and Cloud team

Agenda

Time	Happening
8 - 9am	Registration
9 - 9:15am	Welcome remarks and briefing
9:15am - 4pm	Competition
4 - 5pm	Results announcement and award presentation

Rules

Team format – each team must consist of a maximum of four members.
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.
- 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.
- Web 3.0 – The Web 3.0 challenge tests the teams’ understanding of decentralisation and token-based economics and ability to exploit known limitation of these new concepts.

Disclaimer

Scoring

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