PhD Candidate, Matthew Boakes from the School of Engineering and Digital Arts is amongst the winners of the annual Deloitte Cyber ‘Capture the Flag’ competition, a national cyber security competition where the winners secured a prize of £3000.The other three students from the winning group are: Calvin Brierley, Catalin Irimie and Jamie Pont from the School of Computing. Together, they were one of eight teams to take part in the challenge.
The competition, which took place in London on 26 February, tested students on a range of key cyber security skills such as penetration testing, forensics, malware and intrusion analysis skills through a variety of tasks.
These included breaking poorly configured encryption schemes that are widely used in real life, performing forensics on memory, file systems and network traffic and using tools and techniques to extract secret information hidden within files.