The Cyber Security Experts Association of Nigeria (CSEAN), the leading professional association dedicated to the promoting of cybersecurity in Nigeria held its annual International Conference Cyber Secure Nigeria 2023 in Abuja on July 11 and 12 ,2023.
This edition of the conference was unique as it featured alongside a virtual Capture the Flag (CTF) competition.
The CTF was facilitated by CSEAN Tech Team and sponsored by Lynsec Cybersecurity.
Contestants from all over Nigeria were selected to participate in a 20-hour competition. The registration portal which is accessible here was launched on 3rd July and accepted entries till 10th July 2023 at 7:59pm Nigerian Time.
For the CTF competition, a team member comprises of 4 – 6 members regardless of age distribution where team members collaborated using Discord server. The exercise was of a jeopardy style which implies that teams were presented with lists of challenges in categories as listed below:
- Binary Exploitation.
- Reverse Engineering.
- Web Exploitation.
- Digital Forensics.
- Incident Response.
- Network Security.
- Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC) among others.
A total of 23 applicants successfully applied through the registration portal. The team names are: –
- Cyber Knights
- NightTrit
- Cybercube
- The_A_Team
- DLCF
- Soul Society
- ne0h
- Phantom_troupe
- Genesis-#
- Kaizen
- StealthSec
- REPT
- Zero Day Brokers
- JEDI
- Error
- Team Dave
- CryptQueens
- Ouada
- Xtr3m3 Of3nda5
- Mov Chaker
- B34C0N_R4NG3R5
- anon
- ICT drewmbooster
After a thrilling competition, Team Soul Society emerged as the overall winner with an impressive total of 1720 points. The soul society team were , Abdulrahman Oyekunle, Samuel Omolewa, Adebayo Segun,Anighoro Ejiro , Mark Uche and Damian Pine
Team REPT and Kaizen secured the first runner-up and second runner-up positions with 1270 and 1120 points, respectively
Team REPT
Sname Mobolaji
Azubuike Habeeb
Kubura Ogunbanwo
Olufunmi Ekwueme
Olaide Adeyemo”
Team Kaizen
Abdulhakeem Onipede
Bezalel Nwosu
Adisa Toheeb Kayode
Abduljalal Saminu
The goal of the Cyber Secure Nigeria Conference 2023 (CSEAN-CTF 2023) is to offer both a technical and entertaining experience, with the aim of testing and enhancing participants’ cybersecurity skills. The event provides an opportunity to identify talented individuals and encourage newcomers in the field.
Congratulations to all the winners!
