Dear students, if you are interested in infosecurity you may wish to keep aware of the Centre for Strategic Infocomm Technologies (CSTI)‘s The Infosecurity Challenge (TISC) 2023.
The first stage of the challenge involves getting Challenge Owners to submit ideas that Solvers of the upcoming TISC 2023 can resolve or decode. Basically the first stage is for the Builders of Challenges.
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Imagine if you are training to be a ninja, someone have to build the gym for you to train in.
The principle is the same for those training to be forensic specialists, info-/ cyber- security personnel or certain types of analyst. Someone has to build the digital puzzles/mazes/gyms/ranges for those training in Information Security (Infosecurity) or Cybersecurity to solve.
That is why as you receive training to become a builder (of software) or creator (of information products), you will have a lot of options as to the different paths you can walk. Perhaps one day you can be competent enough to design digital creations, to help others sharpen special Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) skillsets.
“Challenge Submissions
We are seeking creators to submit challenges for TISC 2023. Selected challenges will receive an incentive of S$1,000 each. Challenge submissions are accepted till 5 July 2023.
Rules for Challenge Creation
- This challenge creation is open to Singapore citizens only.
- The submitted challenge idea should be novel, original and created by you. It must not have been previously published or used in any form in Singapore or anywhere in the world, or entered in any other competition.
- You may only submit 1 challenge.
- Before you submit your challenge, it is important that you understand and agree to the Terms and Conditions in the challenge creation form. Please e-sign the challenge creation form and submit it with your challenge.
- You are to email your challenge to tisc_contactus@csit.gov.sg by 5 July 2023 with the relevant submission materials (listed below).
- If your challenge is selected for use during TISC 2023, you will receive an incentive of S$1,000. Please note that while you may still participate in TISC 2023 if you have a selected challenge, you will not be eligible for prizes.
For any clarifications, please email us at tisc_contactus@csit.gov.sg.
Guidelines on Challenge Topic
Challenge submitted must be related to Infosecurity or Cybersecurity topics such as, but not limited to: Web Hacking, Forensics, Reverse Engineering, Binary Exploitation, Cryptography, Mobile Security, IoT, Data Science (with applications in cybersecurity)
- Your challenge need not be limited to 1 topic (i.e., combination of more than 1 topic is welcome).
- Level of difficulty should be tough yet solvable for someone with deep technical expertise, within reasonable time (i.e., 3 – 72 hours).
- Challenges should be creative, innovative, and interesting.
- Challenges should be aligned with the theme of TISC 2023 (as above).
- Solutions to challenges must not require or suggest the need for server probing or brute-forcing.
More more information, refer to the TISC 2023 website. Ref: https://www.csit.gov.sg/events/tisc/tisc-2023
You can also read up on the past editions of TISC and sharings from the past Community Challenge Creators. Ref: https://www.csit.gov.sg/events/tisc/past-editions-of-tisc/tisc-2022-community-challenge-creators