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CSAW is a project of NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Founded in 2003 by Professor Nasir Memon

and his students, this international, student-run conference aims to provide an engaging forum

for experiential learning and to inspire students to pursue education and careers in cybersecurity.

Now in its 17th year, CSAW has grown into the most comprehensive event of its kind, attracting

the brightest students — from high school to doctoral programs — who compete in nine distinct

cybersecurity challenges at eight academic centers across the globe. An industry (career) fair,

speaker series, and networking events complement the competitions.

Bank of America, Facebook, IBM, JP Morgan Chase, NSF, Raytheon, Uber, and more

Jeopardy-style CTF, hardware defense, forensics,

applied research, cyber policy, and security quiz

CYBER SECURITY AWARENESS WORLDWIDENovember 6-8, 20

Teams

Capture The Flag Competition

Applied Research Competition

Security Quiz

Embedded Security Challenge

Hack 3D

Red Team Competition

Hack ML

Policy Competition

Logic Locking Conquest

International Locations

Student Competitions

Countries Represented

Most comprehenisive student-led games

in the world

Industry Sponsors

QUICK FACTS

THE COMPETITIONS

CAPTURE THE FLAG COMPETITION (CTF)

» Flagship hacking competition attracts top undergraduate teams

» Learn to hack as you go

» Tackle problems in a series of real-world security scenarios

» 600 teams fom accross the globe in preliminary rounds

SECURITY QUIZ

» Covers everything from network security, cryptography, and malware to security-related history, current events, and pop culture

» Live game show format

» Academically rigorous but fun

EMBEDDED SECURITY CHALLENGE

» World’s oldest hardware security contest

» Blue Team designs a target system with strong encryptions and camouflages, while Red Team attempts to identify and exploit system weaknesses

» Research developed during ESC has propelled the entire field of hardware trust

LOCKING LOGIC CONQUEST

» First hardware competition of its kind, introduced in 2019

» Explores revolutionary technique for protecting intellectual property of integrated circuits from security threats such as reverse engineering, overbuilding, piracy, and Trojan insertion

» Participants try to attack designs locked by state-of-the-art methods

» RED TEAM COMPETITION

» Aimed at CSAW’s youngest hackers

» A challenge that encourages learning and skill-building in areas like web security, forensics, crypto and pwning

» During finals, high school teams will attempt to infiltrate and analyze an operation without getting caught

HACK 3D

» Aims to advance security in the fast-growing additive manufacturing field, already producing components for military, automotive, and other critical products

» Qualifying round challenges students to reconstruct a corrupted .gcode file, employing skills in file forensics and reverse-engineering

» In the final round, teams try to hack an anti-counterfeiting system designed to protect CAD models

POLICY COMPETITION

» Draft a policy strong enough to effectively resolve a pressing cybersecurity problem

» This year’s topics are cyberwarfare, data security, and law enforcement investigations

» Competition draws talented students from law, policy, technology and other fields

HACK ML

» First artificial intelligence competition of its kind, introduced in 2019

» Graduate and undergraduate teams design new, more powerful backdoor attacks on neural networks and develop novel defenses and detections

» One challenge requires competitors to design a backdoor attack on facial recognition that causes the network to incorrectly classify an image

APPLIED RESEARCH COMPETITION

» One of the most prestigious student research awards in the world

» Only peer-reviewed research, presented at conferences or published in a journal, accepted

» Winning entry judged on originality, relevance, and accuracy

STUDENT-FOCUSED COMPETITIONS

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UPDATED 10/22/19