HackaDay 2021 - Securing the cloud

Rules

• Team format – each university can register a maximum of two teams, and 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 five 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 & 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 & 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.

Disclaimer

Scoring

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

Prizes

Champion team

• One-year internship* or direct entry to PwC’s Superday for final year students**
• Full sponsorship of Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP) certification (30-day lab access)
• Full sponsorship for CREST Practitioner Security Analyst (CPSA) examination

First runner-up team

• Three-month internship* or direct entry to PwC’s Superday for final year students**
• Half sponsorship of Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP) certification (30-day lab access)
• Full sponsorship for CREST Practitioner Security Analyst (CPSA) examination

Second runner-up team

• Three-month internship* or direct entry to PwC’s Superday for final year students**
• Full sponsorship for CREST Practitioner Security Analyst (CPSA) examination

*With PwC Hong Kong’s Cybersecurity & Privacy team
**Visit our Career website to find out more about our internship and graduate programmes.

Participate

Register through your respective university representative before 29 October 2021.