Open to: high school, undergraduate, and graduate students located in the U.S.
Event date: November 10-11
Challenge captain: Brittany De Bella
The Quiz Tournament tests your breadth and depth of knowledge in broad range of digital security topics. The covered topics include, but are not limited to, network security, cryptography, malware, application and web security, protocols, the history of digital security, digital forensics, and policy, risk management, and standards.
For new undergraduate and graduate students: scholarships can only be used at the School of Engineering and for tuition purposes only, and when combined with other Poly grants and/or scholarships cannot exceed cost of tuition.
For current Poly undergraduates: The CSAW scholarship for continuing Poly undergraduates when combined with other Poly grants and/or scholarships cannot exceed $20,000 tuition costs per year.
|Hardware||There was a vulnerability where a Firewire device, when plugged in, can overwrite anywhere in memory. What hardware protocol caused this?||DMA or Direct Memory Access|
|Digital Forensics||What is the hiding of a secret message within an ordinary message and the extraction of it at its destination called?||Steganography|
|History, Personality & Literature||What was the name of the 1983 movie where Mathew Broderick played a young hacker who gained access to a government nuclear war simulator?||War Games|
|System/Network Admin||In Microsoft Internet Explorer, which file stores information about a user’s browsing history such as URLs?||the index.dat file|
|Cryptography||In practical cryptography, what is the name of the functions that are embodied in a physical structure, that is easy to evaluate but hard to characterize.||PUF or Physical Unclonable Function|