Event

Cyber Security Challenge 2021

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15 - 16 OCTOBER 2021 - ONLINE

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The Challenge

REPLY CYBER SECURITY CHALLENGE - 4th CAPTURE THE FLAG EDITION.
A team competition open to both students and professionals created by the “Keen Minds Team”, Reply’s group of Cyber Security experts.

On 15th October 2021 Reply launched the challenge on challenges.reply.com.
The challenge took place online on Friday at 7:30 p.m. CEST.

All registered teams took on the Cyber Security Challenge in Capture the Flag (CTF) mode.

Each team had to face 5 levels for each of the 5 categories offered with Cyber Security as main theme: Coding, Web, Miscellaneous, Crypto and Binary. This all happens in a time span 24 hours total.

Let's crunch some numbers

Beyond expectations, here is the participation response:

  • 9,000 NEW REGISTRATIONS on challenges.reply.com

  • 130 different COUNTRIES

  • 2330 registered TEAMS

  • 6132 FLAGS submitted, of which 1721 scoring ones

The Winners

These are the three top ranked teams that took part in this challenge:

Number One

PTB
Score: 5,452

Second Place

WreckTheLine
Score: 4,924

Third Place

Red - Score: 4,374
Tower of Hanoi - Score: 4,272

Reply Challenges

Reply invests heavily in the research of talent and continual learning.

The REPLY CYBER SECURITY CHALLENGE fits within Reply’s vast programme of initiatives designed to promote the culture of coding, with a particular focus on the younger generations.

These Challenges are part of the Reply’s ongoing efforts to promote coding to young people, businesses and geeks.