Code Breakers returns after a break of three years. It will be a follow up of the security workshop.
Code Breakers returns after a break of three years. It will be a
follow up of the security workshop.
This will not be a normal hacking challenge. It will focus more on
securing the computer. The competition will be as follows. A system
with many vulnerabilities will be given to a team and they will have
to patch it up as much as possible within a given time limit. Then the
other team will have to look for ways to get into the system. This
will be done again with the roles changed.
The event will be in three stages. The first stage a written prelims will have basic questions about security in general. Four teams will qualify for the next round, and it will be semis and finals in the format mentioned earlier.
Maximum of three in a team
Coordinator's decisions shall be final and binding.
Sanjay Burman was posted to Electronics and Radar Development Establishment (LRDE), the premier DRDO laboratory of Bangalore in 1986. Since then he has been working in the area of Defence Communication and is presently heading a group of scientists working on cryptography and allied subjects at Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIR), Bangalore.
He has contributed to the design of a number of cryptographic devices which have been deployed in the field. He was awarded the Sir C V Raman Young Scientist Award for the year 1999. In 2004 he was given the Agni Award for Excellence in Self Reliance for his contributions to the development of S-Band Mobile Satellite Service Terminal. The Lab Scientist of the Year Award by DRDO in 2006 and the "DRDO Award for Performance Excellence" for his contributions to secure communications and for the successful development of an ECCM radio. Currently, he heads the Communication Security Group of CAIR where his group is designing a number of high grade encryptors for terrestrial and satellite links.
Sanjay Burman is a founder member of the Cryptology Research Society of India. He has a number of publications to his credit in the areas of cryptography, security and re-configurable computing
Apurv is a software professional and research scientist with over 9 years of experience in the software industry, in areas of application and network security and software quality assurance. He has proven his ability to implement secure development lifecycle and mentor various team engineers for the same.
An able representative of McAfee Inc., he understands McAfee security product lines in depth with 6 years of work experience here. He has been pivotal in pioneering software security awareness in the McAfee by starting a various initiatives like software security club with the mission of providing expertise and consultancy to other teams. He has been also involved in engineering response team (ERT) for McAfee Bangalore office, dedicated for handling virus outbreaks on engineering network. Apurv has written engineering tools such as fuzz testing tools, OS imaging tools, MS patch management tools that help in software testing. Apurv has been awarded with prestigious awards in McAfee like ClubGeek and Employee of the Quarter.
Apurv is currently working as the Product Security Lead at McAfee (www.mcafee.com) Bangalore office.
With an experience of 7 years in the industry, Rahul has explored the areas of security testing, large scale performance engineering and database migration projects. Currently, he is a part of the Anti-Virus Engine team, a sub-set of Avert Labs at McAfee India. He is a core member of the McAfee Global Performance Testing Team and a Python automation frameworks trainer in the McAfee Automation Club. He is currently working on the development of an open source project - PyRAFT, a rapid automation framework for testing in Python, registered with SourceForge.
He has presented at several conferences and organizations including STeP-IN, ISQT, Yahoo! India, Applabs and STIG. His recent presentations were on the subjects of Fuzzing, Performance engineering COE, User behavior and performance perception and analysis. He is member of the Technical Committee and Review Panel for the upcoming TEST2008 conference. He is very passionate about the field of software testing and runs the Testing Perspective website (www.testingperspective.com).