• “AgatCTF-2019” Info Security Competition II Over

    01.04.2019
     “AgatCTF-2019” Info Security Competition II Over
     “AgatCTF-2019” Info Security Competition II Over

    The “AgatCTF-2019” Info Security Competition II held under “Capture the flag” international terms were run at OJSC “AGAT – Control Systems” on March 30-31, 2019.

    Six teams represented the Belarusian leading higher educational establishments participates in the contest; they exercise training of IT-experts i.e. the Belarusian State University, Belarusian State University of Informatics & Radioelectronics, Belarusian State Technological University & Vitebsk State University named after P.Masherov.

    At the opening ceremony of the cyber contests Mr. Roman Golovchenko, the chairman of the State Military-Industrial Committee, emphasized the importance of the IT sphere for the state economy and necessity to be ready to meet possible threats and risks associated with penetration of the info technologies into all spheres of human life.

    Mr. Gennady Kazakov, director of OJSC “AGAT – Control Systems”, spoke of a great importance referred to training of the personnel in the sphere of cyber security to insure safety of companies and enterprises from all possible cyber threats. He emphasized that the participants who revealed themselves during the competition and showed high professional skills will be offered to become a part of the Company’s department specializing in the info security auditing.


    According to the terms of “AgatCTF-2019” competition the teams were offered six absolutely identical services representing any subsystems of the “Future City” - AGAT Сity i.e. which working efficiency and security should be backed up by the participants. In each of these modern city services such as the service of municipal billboards, medical centers, bicycle rental service, smart home system, goods delivery service using drones and police department there were the vulnerabilities. The teams were to identify them in their services and back up the operation efficiency, as well as take the advantage of the found software vulnerability to attack the services of the rivals and capture their “flags”.


    At the separate site the visitors of the competition and students who came to support their mates could participate in the entertainment show; the visitors were offered to participate in contests and games as well as in virtual reality amusements. 

    In the middle of the contest “ФПМИ-Х” team (represented the Belarusian State University) became and remained the leader until the end of the competition. Thus under the results of the competition “ФПМИ-Х” team was a winner by confirming its championship of 2018.

    According to the competition the Table of participants is as follows:

    1.      ФПМИ-Х (Belarusian State University);

    2.      BSUIR (Belarusian State University of Informatics & Radioelectronics);

    3.      ФПМИ-2 (Belarusian State University);

    4.      Fitness Dolls (Belarusian State Technological University);

    5.      E2I3 (Vitebsk State University named after P.Masherov);

    6.      Daybreak (Belarusian State University of Informatics & Radioelectronics).

    Awarding of winners and awardees of the competition took place on March 31, 2019.  When handing the rewards Mr. Kazakov, the director of OJSC “AGAT – Control Systems”, emphasized the importance of AgatCTF competition in the verification of IT-personnel and invited the representatives of the universities to participate in competitions next year. Besides during the second day of the competition the visitors attended the Info Security Conference where the experts of OJSC “AGAT – Control Systems” and representatives of leading Belarusian IT-Industry delivered their reports.

     

    The Photo Report about the event is in “Media” – “Photo Gallery” chapter (https://agat.by/en/media/fotogalereya/agatctf-2019-end/).