Registration for the annual student hacking contest hosted by the Faculty of Engineering of New York (NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering), is open to participants from across the globe.
The final tournament Cyber Security Awareness Week (CSAW) will be held on November 13-15. Pet contestants from high schools and doctoral programs, who will have to compete in six preliminary rounds for a place in the final.
Prizes will be several scholarships and awards. Apart from six matches, and the contest is Capture the Flag, which aims to find ways to breach system security and theft of protected data. This is the most popular events of the competition by qualifying round which will be held between 19-21 September.
There is also a category for forensic analysis, for high school students as well as a section for hackers hardware (hardware). The notice of registration to the event The organizers reported that added a new competition for public policy developed by students.
This year, the Chief Information Security Officer of Yahoo, Mr. Alex Stamos (obviously Greek origin), will provide the keynote presentation, entitled "Shaping the Future: espionage, cyber crimes, and your career" on November 13, when reception of finalists.
According to the announcement from the university, last year's event brought together more than 15,000 students, shows that there is growing interest among participants.
This year's competition is supported by a total of 20 organizations, gold sponsor is the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The Yahoo is the silver sponsor (2nd) competition, and the list of donors includes copper big names like Facebook, the National Security Agency (NSA), NCC Group North America.
Additional companies that offer support are FireEye, the Intel, the Microsoft, the MIT Lincoln Laboratory and Service United States Secret Service.
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