EUROPEAN CYBER SECURITY CHALLENGE
23 to 28 October 2023
Hamar, Norway
Hellenic Team 2022
ANNOUNCEMENT FOR PARTICIPATION IN THE NATIONAL CYBER SECURITY TEAM
In recent years, the National Cybersecurity Team has been actively participating in the European Cybersecurity Challenge (ECSC) and until today has managed to meet the high requirements of the tender process, worthy challenging, technologically advanced countries.
Our main goal through this initiative is to look for new talents in the field of cyber security, through a series of demanding tests and training that begin immediately after the end of each annual event. These young people are the scientific workforce of tomorrow in the field of cyber security both in Greece and abroad.
A great supporter of the Greek effort is the Ministry of Digital Government, as well as our sponsors, who actively contribute to the National Cybersecurity Team, ensuring the right conditions for its success.
As part of the team’s preparations for its participation in the European Cybersecurity Challenge 2023, which will take place in Hamar, Norway, in October 2023, the national mission, is seeking its extroversion and renewal, by addressing an open invitation to anyone who is interested.
If you want to experience this and become a member of this National Effort, register by filling out the registration form by selecting one of the following fields:
- Candidates competing in the National Cybersecurity Team (aged 15-25)
- Coaches
- Instructors – Mentors – Volunteers
- Sponsors
- Supporters
Send your message today, either via e-mail to ecsc@unipi.gr, or via the social team channels of the National Team.
European Cyber Security Challenge
Today, most countries lack sufficient IT security professionals to protect their IT infrastructure. The European Cyber Security Challenge (ECSC) is aimed at identifying new talent – by having national teams compete in a Cyber Security Challenge!
The European Cyber Security Challenge (ECSC), organized by ENISA, leverages these competitions in that it adds a pan-European layer to them: The top cyber talents from each country meet to network and collaborate and finally compete against each other to determine which country has the best cyber talents. To find out which country’s team is the best, contestants have to solve security related tasks from domains such as web security, mobile security, crypto puzzles, reverse engineering, and forensics and collect points for solving them.
The European Cyber Security Challenge (ECSC) is an annual cybersecurity event, aimed at identifying new talent across Europe by having national teams compete in a Cyber Security Challenge!
In this competition, young cybersecurity experts compete with each other by solving security related challenges, which require technical skills such as pen-testing, as well as soft skills in order to deliver a presentation. The activities of the ECSC are supervised by this Steering Committee, made out of representatives of the attending countries which are assigned by the European Union Agency for Cyber Security (ENISA).
For Greece, the role of Steering Committee member has been assigned from ENISA to the “Systems Security Laboratory of the Department of Digital Systems” of the University of Piraeus, represented by Prof. Christos Xenakis.
The Greek National ECSC Team operates under the auspices of the Hellenic Ministry of Digital Governance which is always in close cooperation with the Hellenic Steering Committee
Competition details & terms
Eligibility
Contestants must participate in the qualifying round and be chosen among other contestants. Their age should be between 15 – 26 and they need to reside in the country they represent.
Qualifying & Final Rounds
This is an annual event, comprising two separate rounds: A qualifying round and a finals round.
The qualifying round is run locally in each participating country and is an open call to cybersecurity talents. The object of the qualifier is to assemble the team that competes in the finals, by running a set of challenges similar to the finals round. The top contestants in the qualifier form the ECSC national team each year.
All the national teams then compete in the final round of the Challenge, in a one-day event that determines the country with the top cybersecurity talent each year.
ECSC TEASER
