What is important to keep in mind when designing and taking part in Capture The Flag (CTF) competition. We talk with Jax, who has been designing top-level competitions for white hats and students for half a decade. We find out what CTFs are, what to keep in mind when designing them and when competing in them. We keep the discussion away from the technical and there is a glossary at the end and fun throughout.
About our guest:
You can find out more about the design team for Northsec at https://nsec.io/team/
Papers or resources mentioned in this episode:
Challenges from previous northsec competitions can be found here:
https://nsec.io/competition-write-ups/
In particular, we referred to this challenge:
https://github.com/JaneBdemented/NSEC2019_DEFEC8ED_Walkthroughs
Other:
If you want to have a try at CTF challenges, you can try this site from Carnegie Mellon University
You can also try this website for getting started with hacking techniques
Jax was actually feeling ill during this interview but did it anyway, what a champion.