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Securing by the crowd
It is crucial to marshal a centralised platform so that cybersecurity talents around the world can congregate, while future cybersecurity talents can begin to learn, hack and co-secure the environment and society in the near future. The centralised platform is a cyber ecosystem, carries a cycle of learn to hack and hack to learn, such that the goal of nurture, upskill and reskill cybersecurity talents around the world can be accomplished and continuously contributing to the ecosystem.
Why you should join?
HackaDay is PwC Hong Kong’s annual flagship event which includes competitions for students to understand more on the ecosystem in Cybersecurity and Cloud.
For the 6th consecutive year, HackaDay serves as a platform to raise the competency level of future talents to better prepare them for a meaningful career in cybersecurity with the Capture The Flag competition.
This year, we introduce our first Hackathon contest that will allow students in Hong Kong and Macau to test their limit in technical skills while solving hot real-world problem. This hackathon is unlike any you would usually participate in which emphasise on the final presentation. Instead, we value the design principles, methodology and development skills you possess.
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Hackathon
Participants of PwC’s Hackathon are expected to have a basic understanding of developing a data lake infrastructure on a designated platform, building virtual machines, network components, databases to support one’s infrastructure and eventually auto deploy in cloud via CI/CD pipelines.
Students should also consider to include a UI UX element so that users without too much knowledge of cloud can easily define basic parameters to self-service the deployment, by providing their own account credentials and network/ storage requirements.
The deployment should make use of orchestration and automation through DevSecOps. And the deployed platform should be secure since day 1.
When
- 26 Sep – 14 Oct
Nomination, team formation and application - 24 Oct
Online briefing - 30 Oct – 12 Nov
Hackathon platform opens - 24 Nov
Prize presentation for winners on HackaDay 2022 at Tai Kwun, Hong Kong
Participants
- Full-time undergraduate university students in Hong Kong and Macau during school year 2022/2023
Judging panel
- PwC Hong Kong Cybersecurity and Cloud team
- Representatives from AWS and Microsoft Azure
Rules
- Team format – each university can register a maximum of two teams, and each team must consist three to four members.
- Each team will be entitled to a credit of USD 100 for development of the final product using the assigned cloud platform (during the two week competition period).
- We will share the detailed requirements of the respective topic on 30 Oct to eligible teams and teams are expected to submit the source code, technical documentation together with screenshots before the submission deadline. (12 Nov, 11.59pm, Hong Kong time)
- Teams are not allowed to make any changes to the final product after the deadline. Team that violated this rule will be disqualified.
- Top 5 selected teams to be invited to conduct a presentation of the design principles, methodology and the final outcome to the judging panel via Zoom. (During week of 14 Nov; Around 30 mins)
- Teams are not permitted to collaborate.
Scoring
- The competition will test the skills and knowledge of teams on developing a real world application. The competition will test the skills and knowledge of teams on developing a web application and the integration with cloud (AWS or Microsoft Azure).
- The winner will be determined by the team attaining the highest score.
Area |
Ratio |
Frontend: UI/UX |
20% |
Backend: Scalability (how reusable is the code) |
20% |
Backend: Reliability (bug-free) |
20% |
Backend: Code Readability |
20% |
(Bonus) Additional Functionality/ Security Consideration |
20% |
Documentation |
10% |
Technical Walkthrough |
10% |
Total |
100% |
Prizes
Winners will be awarded with PwC’s internships or direct entry to PwC’s Superday for final year students and will receive sponsorships of cloud related examinations offered by AWS or Microsoft Azure.
*With PwC Hong Kong’s Cybersecurity and Cloud team
** Visit our Career website to find out more about our internship and graduate programmes.
Get prepared
Here are some quick tutorials to get you prepared to develop an interactive web portal that retrieves user requirement for a data lake infrastructure, compile a Terraform template accordingly which can be eventually deployed to AWS/ Microsoft Azure through CI/CD pipeline.
Click here to understand more and to get you prepared for this upcoming competition.
Capture the Flag Competition
When
- 24 November 2022 (Thursday)
- 8:30am - 4:30pm
Where
- Tai Kwun, 10 Hollywood Road, Central, Hong Kong (Hong Kong participants)
- Virtual (Macau and Singapore students)
Participants
- Full-time undergraduate university students in Hong Kong, Macau and Singapore during school year 2022/2023
Judging panel
- PwC Hong Kong Cybersecurity and Cloud team
Agenda
Time |
Happening |
8:30-9am |
Registration |
9-9:15am |
Welcome remarks and briefing |
9:15am-4pm |
Competition |
4-4:30pm |
Results announcement and award presentation |
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 six 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.
- Web 3.0 – The Web 3.0 challenge tests the teams’ understanding of decentralisation and token-based economics and ability to exploit known limitation of these new concepts.
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) PEN-200 certification (90-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) PEN-200 certification (90-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.
Interested in joining our hacking competitions?
Register through your respective university representative before 14 Oct 2022.
Hong Kong
City University of Hong Kong
Gerhard Hancke
gp.hancke@cityu.edu.hk
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Charles Zhang
charlesz@cse.ust.hk
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
S.Y. Chau
sychau@ie.cuhk.edu.hk
Hong Kong Metropolitan University
Dr. Jeff Au Yeung
jauyeung@hkmu.edu.hk
Hang Seng University of Hong Kong
Esther Woo
estherwoo@hsu.edu.hk
Hong Kong Baptist University
Dr. Jean Lai
jeanlai@comp.hkbu.edu.hk
Lingnan University
Natalie Ng
natalieng@ln.edu.hk
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Haibo Hu
haibo.hu@polyu.edu.hk
The University of Hong Kong
S.M. Yiu
smyiu@cs.hku.hk
The Education University of Hong Kong
Lemon Kwan
hmkwan@eduhk.hk
Macau
Macao Polytechnic Institute
Jacky Tang
sktang@ipm.edu.mo
Macau University of Science and Technology
Andy Cheang
bobzhang@um.edu.mo
University of Macau
Bob Zhang
bobzhang@um.edu.mo
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