Why You Should Start Doing CTFs by Oryan De Paz.
From the post:
Capture The Flag (CTF) is a competition in the Information Security field. The main idea is to simulate different kinds of attack concepts with various challenges such as Reverse Engineering, Networks and Protocols, Programming, Crypto, Web Security, Exploits, etc.
All these challenges have one goal — capture the flag: solve the puzzle and use your skills in order to find a string that you can eventually type-in as your solution. If the solution is correct — you get the challenge points, which depend on the task difficulty. These days you can find CTF competitions in many of the infosec conferences.
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De Paz has five (5) good reasons for doing Capture The Flag (CTF) exercises and pointers to additional resources.
De Paz mentions these reverse engineers as guideposts for her journey into CTF (in a Twitter thread on her post):
- @Baot_IL (Israeli community of women in R&D)
- @0xgalz
- @cbelle1234
- @Dafna_Mordechai
- @OphirHarpaz
Great advice and leads to exploring CTF for yourself!