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Developed by the Cyber Security Researchers of Waikato (CROW), a research lab based at the

University of Waikato, the Cyber Security Challenge (CSC) was first held in 2014.

CSC started as a local competition for University of Waikato students and since 2015 has

become a nationwide competition with increasing numbers of participants from university, high

school and industry each year, and growing support from industry partners and supporters.

CROW established the competition to encourage cyber security studies at the university and to

promote the cyber security industry in New Zealand.

CSC 2014

The inaugural CSC started as a competition for University of Waikato students only to gauge

students&#39; interest in a Cyber Security-themed competition. CSC 2014 had a single round - a

capture-the- flag style challenge where the participants solved challenges to acquire flags. Over

70 students registered, attended the training and participated in the competition, which

encouraged CROW to plan the next CSC.

CSC 2015

The 2015 CSC was open to all of New Zealand and participants were split into three categories -

Secondary, Tertiary and Industry/Open.

The competition had two rounds: Round One, a capture-the- flag style challenge with the top five

teams competing in Round Two. Round Two was Red team vs. Blue team style challenge with

five Blue teams defended their systems against the Red team, which included Industry

professionals from Insomnia Security and PWC Digital.

The champions of CSC 2015 was team Ter B, runner-up was DoubleMC and second runner-up

was Kanye4Prez.

CSC 2016

Due to the popularity of the competition in 2015, an online qualifying round, Round Zero, was

introduced. 267 participants registered for Round Zero and attempted the challenges between

the June 17 – July 1, with the Top 150 were chosen to attend the competition on the July 14 and

15.

Participants competed in two rounds: Round One, a capture-the- flag style challenge and Round

Two, a Red team vs. Blue team game where the Blue teams had to defend their vulnerable

servers from attacks from the Red teams, which consisted of an industry professional from

Gallagher and two CROW members.

Champions of CSC 2016 was an industry category team representing Gallagher Group named

Hodor - Sjoerd de Feijter, Matthew Stringer, Vladimir Petko. Runner-up was secondary school

category team named 404TeamNotFound – 17-year- old Michael Robertson competing solo and

representing Cambridge High School.

CSC 2017

As with the 2016 CSC, the fourth challenge had an online qualifying round with 460 participants

registering for the competition.

Like 2016, the first round of the competition, held between June 12–26, was a Capture-the- Flag

style challenge where competitors solve a series of Cyber Security-themed puzzles to acquire

special flags for scoring.

The top teams, up to 150 people, are then invited to compete in Rounds One, Two and Three at

the University of Waikato on July 15 with a training session on July 14.

In Round One, competitors have three hours to capture as many flags as you can from the virtual

enemy&#39;s servers.

Round Two is a new policy-based challenges co-developed with top management from tech

companies, the National Cyber Policy Office and top consulting firms, was introduced in this

Challenge, to expose the competitors to policy issues and considerations in real life industry

settings. Competitors solved a set of problems using provided scenarios.

Top five teams from Rounds One and Two, compete against the best enemy players in a Red

team vs. Blue team challenge where the Blue teams defend their vulnerable servers from Red

team attacks.

There was also job fair and a series of talks from industry professionals from the Cyber Security

Industry in NZ.