Security BSides is a hacker convention that provides a community driven framework for information security conferences. BSides was co-founded by Mike Dahn, Jack Daniel, and Chris Nickerson in 2009. Due to overwhelming number of presentation submissions to Black Hat USA in 2009, the rejected presentations were presented to a smaller group of individuals. Over [...]
Even more great news on the sponsorship front, as we welcome back Deloitte as Gold Sponsor for ZeroDays CTF 2019. Deloitte helps organisations prevent cyberattacks and protect valuable assets. We believe in being secure, vigilant, and resilient—not only by looking at how to prevent and respond to attacks, but at how to manage cyber risk in a [...]
Zero Days aims are to promote, develop and encourage participation in CTF events in Ireland. Our flagship event, the Irish Colleges Cyber-Security Challenge, aims to showcase and identify the best cyber-security students in the country. Zero Days CTF was launched in 2015; a national cyber-security competition aimed at students, university graduates and ICT professionals. This event has a clear [...]
The excellent HackTrinity capture-the-flag takes place this week from Monday 18th to Sunday 24th February. HackTrinity is a free, online Capture-the-Flag (CTF) competition run by Rory and Emmet, Trinity College Students (and part of our ZD team!). Competitors face a variety of Web, Crypto, Reverse Engineering and Forensics challenges, released on the challenge website over the [...]
Great to see ZeroDays CTF getting some coverage. Today we feature on Irish Tech News, with a nice article about our premier event, coming up on April 5th. Nice mention of our sponsors too. https://irishtechnews.ie/zero-days-capture-the-flag-april-5th-in-twenty-two-dublin/
More great sponsorship news this morning as we announce our Prizes Sponsor; Amazon. We've had a great relationship with Amazon Dublin for the past few years and we're delighted to grow that every year. Thanks folks! This means that this year Amazon are sponsoring 1st, 2nd, 3rd place for College teams AND industry teams as well as prizes for [...]
Ward Solutions have been supporting ZeroDays CTF from the early days, and we are over the moon to welcome them back again this year as Gold level sponsors. Ward Solutions is a privately owned, debt free, organically grown information security company focused on providing a complete set of Information Security services, products and solutions targeting the Irish [...]
More great sponsorship news today as we welcome back ReliaQuest as Platinum level sponsors. ReliaQuest recently opened their European HQ in Dublin and plans to add 100 jobs in their Security Operations Centre over the next three years. "You have the talent. You’ve invested in the technology. The problem is that point technology can only do so [...]
We are delighted to welcome back Integrity360 as Platinum level sponsors. Integrity360 have partnered with us from the beginning, and provided fantastic support in that time. "As one of the fastest-growing cybersecurity specialists in the UK & Ireland, we help our clients to proactively understand and protect against the ever-evolving threat landscape by offering them truly global [...]
Quite simply, ZeroDays CTF couldn't run in it's current format, without the support of our sponsors. Edgescan have been been hugely supportive over the past few years and we are delighted to welcome them back as Platinum level sponsors. Rahim Jina, co-founder and COO of Edgescan confirmed their committment to nurturing cyber security talent “Zerodays has fast become [...]
