This simulated attack & defence challenge is designed to simulate a wide variety of real world attacks testing the delegate's ability under pressure to detect and mitigate live attacks as they happen. Each team is responsible for the security of a network of virtual infrastructure and applications configured like any other online business where each team must maintain the uptime of their assets and defend them from attack.
During this one day course delegates will be asked to identify vulnerabilities in a number of compromised systems, patch or mitigate those vulnerabilities, identify malware and other types of backdoors installed by an attacker and defend their assets in an attack/defend type scenario.
Each team will be given a set amount of money which decreases every minute that one of their services or servers are down, teams can earn additional money by correctly identifying attacks, vulnerabilities and successfully causing down time for other teams.
Delegates are expected to have at least some experience within the Linux environment and be able to identify vulnerabilities and attacks using a variety of network, vulnerability and malware analysis tools, techniques and procedures. Exposure to scripting languages will be an advantage.