picoCTF-Africa
A competition designed to introduce African students to the world of cybersecurity, held March 15-29, 2022.
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A competition designed to introduce African students to the world of cybersecurity, held March 15-29, 2022.
picoCTF-Africa is a free computer security competition for undergraduate and graduate students across the African continent, created by security and privacy experts at Carnegie Mellon University Africa.
This competition is part of picoCTF, the annual computer security competition and learning platform created by CyLab Security and Privacy Institute. Participants of picoCTF-Africa will be ranked on an African-only leaderboard within the annual picoCTF competition.
Over the course of nearly a decade, picoCTF has become the world's largest online hacking competition. In 2021, nearly 15,000 people from over 130 countries around the world competed. The event has also grown to include several geographically-based leaderboards and programming, including Canada, Japan, and now, Africa.
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Source: Carnegie Mellon University Africa
Tim Brown, director of research at CMU-Africa, congratulates the competition winner from the 2021 CyLab-Africa conference
picoCTF-Africa is open to everyone. Students and teams that do not meet these requirements can still participate, but will not be eligible to win contest prizes. Please see competition rules for details.
There is no fee to participate. Students can sign up to compete through the last day of the competition, March 29, 2022. There is no limit to the number of teams that can represent a single school, and team members do not have to attend the same school.
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Today’s digital world depends heavily on cybersecurity. With little or no security, technology adoption rates would be low and fintechs would be non-existent. With the development of picoCTF-Africa, CyLab-Africa aims to address the need for capacity development in the field of cybersecurity, for Africa’s unique and fragile digital environment.
By participating in picoCTF-Africa, students will walk away with an understanding of cybersecurity skills and knowledge in reverse engineering, forensics, web security, cryptography, and critical thinking—skills that are needed in the security industry.
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