Friday is competition day across the CSAW landscape, with all five event sites running a variety of competitions testing skill in both attacking and defending computer software and hardware.
In Brooklyn, the competitions will include the Embedded Security Challenge, Hack 3D, Logic Locking, and the Policy Competition, and the debut of two new competitions. The Fuzzing Competition, also known as the Securing Open Source Software Competition and hosted by ForAllSecure, is designed to teach students how to use fuzz testing to find security exploits in open source software. The AI vs Humans competition is a hardware security challenge contest that centers around defeating artificial intelligence (AI)-based tools developed for hardware security.
In addition to the NYU Center for Cybersecurity, CSAW competitions for the US-Canada site are organized by the NYU Center for Global Affairs (Policy Competition), NYU Tandon Dept. of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering (Hack3D Competition), and the University of Delaware Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (Embedded Security Challenge).
The Abu Dhabi site, headquarters for the Middle East North Africa region events, will also introduce a new competition on this day as well. The Hack My Robot Challenge aims to “raise awareness about the cybersecurity aspects of increasingly digitalized construction environments with a particular focus on robotics.” Participants are asked to compromise the data and operations of a given robotic system considering the characteristics of construction sites. This challenge is organized by the S.M.A.R.T. Construction Research Group, with the support of the Center for Cybersecurity (CCS) and the Center for AI and Robotics (CAIR) at NYUAD.
The European site at Grenoble INP – Esisar in Valence, France.will host four competitions, including a Red Team competition for high school students. The CSAW India site at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur will host three competitions virtually, while CSAW Mexico at Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City will host two online competitions.