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• Five Continents – One Tournament: BRICS+ CTF Finals Held at ITMO University

  Five continents, 105 countries, and 1,257 teams – Russia has recently hosted the online cybersecurity competition BRICS+ CTF. The final round of the contest, co-organized by ITMO University, took place on November 16 and welcomed 20 teams from eight countries. The team Friendly Maltese Citizens (international) finished first, followed by NE_SPRUSH (Russia) and Bushwhackers (Russia).

  20.11.2024

• I Am a Professional Contest: Information & Cyber Security Track FAQ

  Registration is underway for the I Am a Professional competition that allows medalists to receive up to 300,000 rubles and winners and prize-winners – to intern at major Russian companies and enroll at the country’s top universities. ITMO oversees three conference tracks, including Information & Cyber Security. In this article, we talk about what to anticipate and how to prepare for the contest with Andrey Yougunson, an associate professor at ITMO’s Faculty of Secure Information Technologies.

  16.10.2024

• ITMO Team Reigns Supreme in Russian Infosec Championship

  The latest Russian championship in competitive programming welcomed more than 160 teams from across the country, with only 38 making it to the finals. ITMO students secured the first place in the track Programming of Information Security Systems, while the second and third places went to participants from the Republic of Tatarstan and Moscow. The winners split a prize fund of over 1 million rubles.

  11.12.2023

• Russian Teams Win All Awards in BRICS+CTF Tournament

  Recently, ITMO hosted the finals of the international CTF cybersecurity tournament that was held under the aegis of the 5th International Municipal BRICS+ Forum. Participants from over 90 countries took part in the tournament, while the winners split the $10,000 prize fund. This year, the best results were achieved by Russian teams.

  13.11.2023

• CTF Competitions: Reasons To Join and Preparation Tips

  With an ever-increasing number of hacker attacks, cybersecurity specialists are compelled to constantly upgrade their skills; for one, by participating in Capture the Flag (CTF) competitions. In this article, Alexander Menshikov, an associate professor at ITMO’s Faculty of Secure Information Technologies, and Georgy Gennadiev, a CTF contest veteran and a Master’s student at ITMO’s Faculty of Secure Information Technologies, provide an overview of existing CTF events, as well as list a pool of benefits they offer for specialists and companies alike.

  13.10.2023

• ITMO Students Win Infosec Contest VolgaCTF

  Students from ITMO University were named winners of the 13th annual information security competition VolgaCTF in Samara. The final stage of the competition pitted 23 teams from Russia and neighboring countries. As a result of this victory, the team from ITMO moved up in the ranking to become one of the world’s top three CTF teams in the field of infosec.

  19.09.2023

• ITMO Students Named Best Academic Team at Russian CTF Cup

  Last weekend, the Smart City pavilion of Moscow’s VDNKh hosted the final of the Russian national information security championship. The FaKappa team made up of students of ITMO's Faculty of Secure Information Technologies took second place, won the special nomination, and received prizes from Sberbank.

  15.12.2021

• I Am a Professional: Tips From Former Winners of Information & Cyber Security Track

  Previously, winners of the Robotics track of the I Am a Professional contest shared their tips for this year’s participants. In this part of the series, bronze medal winners of the Information & Cyber Security talk about their experiences at the contest and share advice. 

  10.12.2021

• National Cyber Testing Ground: ITMO Team Wins First Intercollegiate Cybersecurity Wargames

  The National Cyber Testing Ground is a major national initiative that’s being developed by Rostelecom. In 2021, the telecommunications company and ITMO launched a support center for the initiative as part of the university’s Safety and Security of Critical Information Technologies international research center. And recently, ITMO’s team won the National Cyber Testing Ground’s First Intercollegiate Wargames in Cybersecurity. We talked to Aleksander Menshikov, head of the National Cyber Testing Ground’s training center, and Dmitry Tatarov, the winning team’s captain, to learn about the wargames and how one can join ITMO’s team.

  29.10.2021

• ITMO’s Team Fargate Wins Kuban CTF-2021

  Kuban CTF (Capture The Flag) is a team competition in computer security that took place as part of Kuban Cyber Security Conference 2021. ITMO’s student team won the competition for the second time.

  29.07.2021