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.
This is the official page of the Hellenic Cyber Security Team.
The team that competed in the 2017 ECSC challenge grand finals assembled after a qualification round, held on June 3-4, which determined the top 10 cybersecurity talents in Greece. The team competed in the Challenge 2017 finals that took place between October 30th and November 3rd, 2017, in Malaga, Spain.
The Hellenic team and participation in the Challenge organized by the Department of Digital Systems of the University of Piraeus.
The focus of the Challenge is to identify new talent, so only InfoSec hobbyists and students are eligible to participate. Participants need to reside in the country they represent and their age should be between 14-25.
Both the Qualifying Round and Final Round included a number of security-related challenges. Including web security, mobile security, crypto puzzles, reverse engineering and forensics. Participants who solved them were awarded points and the individuals (or teams) with the highest number of points win. The Hellenic team’s expenses covered by the organizers and sponsors.
The Hellenic team for the 2017 Challenge comprises of 10 members, which trained by Greunion in order to participate to the ECSC grand final. The members of the team announced after their training has been completed.
- Pavlos Kolios
- Giorgos David Tsekalas
- Anastasios Tsiboukis
- Petros Lazaros Karolos Mantos
- Lefteris Touloumtzidis
- Giannis Zacharioudakis
- Marios Gyftos
- Eustratios Kaplanelis
- Nikos Kamarinakis
- Fanis Dimakis