[NBLUG/talk] NBLUG Meeting tonight: Gamify Security Training with Developer CTFs by Kyle Rankin

Allan Cecil allan at nblug.org
Tue Sep 13 14:54:09 PDT 2016


Tonight's meeting should be fun, and I have the privilege of raffling off one of the speaker's own books - Kyle Rankin's DevOps Troubleshooting!  Arrive by 7:30 for a raffle ticket and see you there,

A.C.
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President, North Bay Linux User's Group

On 09/07/2016 11:50 AM, Allan Cecil wrote:
> Topic: Gamify Security Training with Developer CTFs
> When: Tues September 13th, 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM          
> Speaker: Kyle Rankin
> 
> Location:  O'Reilly Media, Sebastopol CA in the Tarsier conference room
> past the metal statue and to the right ( http://nblug.org/locations )
> 
> Description:
> Capture the Flag tournaments have long been used to test hacker skills but
> they can also serve as effective security training for developers. This
> talk will feature a case study where I turned teams of developers with no
> prior security training against each other in a CTF arena featuring their
> own applications and watched them rack up points as they popped shells in
> each other's applications.
> 


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