Who are we?
The Cyber Security Challenge is a national programme of competitions designed to attract and inspire new talent into the cyber security profession. Backed by government and a host of industry sponsors, the Challenge sets competitions that test existing cyber security skills; runs residential cyber camps that help individuals develop new skills; and provides information through networking events and its website that helps guide potential employees on ways to secure jobs in the sector.
What is Universally Challenged?
A national competition between UK university departments that provides them a way to benchmark their cyber security skills, and pit their brightest cyber talent (including international and overseas) against budding professionals from other institutions.
The competition is simple – each university department or team that wishes to compete must design a code breaking puzzle/cipher – a digital puzzle designed to mystify and flummox other participations, which requires a combination of cyber-relevant skills to crack and which fits within the competition rules. Each team’s cipher will be shared with every other registered University team and the challenge is to crack as many ciphers as possible before the competition ends. The winner is the team judged to have successfully cracked the most code breaking puzzles/ciphers.
What makes a good code breaking puzzle? An example of one of ours is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4Odla8I0Hs that was easy, but it provides an idea of what is required.
