Cyber Security Hackathon by NCIIPC-AICTE-MoE | Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing (VAPT) | March 15-17 March

[PRASHANT SINGH RANA]

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Homepage: https://mic.gov.in/pentathon2024/

Themes: Web attacks, Network exploitation, privilege escalation, cloud focused exploitation, API Vulnerabilities, Mobile App exploitation, OT SCADA, Reverse Engineering etc.

Registration: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfY1TCvDt1qdOrJ7q15cNOG4cY4EhCLtAqhdIMcGeG9-q6Kzw/viewform?pli=1

Timeline:

• Stage I (Screening Round - Online): March 15-17^th, 2024 (Top 25 teams and 100 individuals will be shortlisted for Stage-II)
• Stage II (Grand Finale Round - Offline): April 2-4^th,2024

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Detailed Description

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NCIIPC-AICTE Pentathon 2024

NCIIPC in collaboration with AICTE is conducting India’s first national level VAPT exercise opening up the opportunity for all technical colleges and universities in India to participate in a challenge specially designed to resemble and mimic the real world CII entities. The objective of this challenge is to create a talented pool of ethical hackers/pen testers for finding vulnerabilities in the systems of critical information infrastructure.

About Pentathon

Pentathon is being organized by National Critical Information Infrastructure Protection Center (NCIIPC), All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) and Ministry of Education's Innovation Cell (MIC)   to engage young talent from the nation that can contribute to improve cybersecurity posture of Critical Information Infrastructure (CII).

Through this hackathon, a national pool of skilled and credible experts primarily from the educational institutions across the country will be setup to improve the quality and efficacy of Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing (VAPT) of the CII entities. 

Stages of Pentathon

This hackathon will have 2 stages wherein during the 1st phase, an online screening round like jeopardy-style Capture the flag (Flag) round to be taken by student teams on Web attacks, Network exploitation, privilege escalation, cloud focused exploitation, API Vulnerabilities, Mobile App exploitation, OT SCADA, Reverse Engineering etc. and during the 2nd Stage of the Grand Finale, which will be ethical hacking contest themed on Critical Information Infrastructure Protection would be given to students. 

Who can participate?

This hackathon will be open for students from the HEIs and they can either participate individually or as a team (2 to 6). The individual or teams can have 1 to 2 mentors (optional) for this hackathon. 

Winning teams

Winners from the hackathon will be rewarded with the prize money and later enrolled as Pentesters for CII by NCIIPC. They will be formally invited for real VAPT exercises with provision of remuneration upto to Rs. 10 Lakh for each exercise. 

Timeline:

• Stage I (Screening Round - Online): March 15-17^th, 2024 (Top 25 teams and 100 individuals will be shortlisted for Stage-II)
• Stage II (Grand Finale Round - Offline): April 2-4^th,2024

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Thanks & Regards

Dr. Prashant Singh Rana,

Associate Professor,

Computer Science and Engineering Department,

Thapar Institute of Engg. and Tech., Patiala, Punjab, India.

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