Holiday Hack Challenge Ed Skoudis Interview
Source: YouTube · John Hammond · published Nov 4, 2024 · 19:36
The SANS Holiday Hack Challenge for 2024 introduces its biggest transformation in 10 years, making the free cybersecurity event more accessible and engaging for participants 2:52.
Key Takeaways:
• The event launches November 7th (much earlier than previous years) and runs until January 3rd, giving participants more flexibility during the holiday season 3:37
• Instead of one massive release, the challenge is split into four parts: Prologue (Nov 7), Act 1 (Nov 11), Act 2 (Nov 18), and Act 3 (Dec 2) 4:51
• Participants can now share solutions for each phase once the next one releases (except Act 3), encouraging collaboration and community learning 8:31
• Each challenge offers easy (silver) and hard (gold) difficulty modes, plus a playthrough mode for those who want to follow the story without solving all challenges 10:11
• New interactive scoreboards and cohort mode allow friendly competition among friends, colleagues, or organizations 14:52
The Holiday Hack Challenge is a free cybersecurity learning experience themed around Santa and elves, where participants solve challenges to "save the holidays" while developing real-world security skills 1:41.
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Al righty well hey thank you so much everyone for tuning in and look I I got to admit I think I'm in for quite a treat this time around because I'm joined by my good friend and if I may say I a fan of uh the incredible Ed scotus who's been doing a ton of phenomenal work putting together I don't know training education everything in cyber security and uh now again uh the annual time of year here the Sans holiday hack challenge Ed it's great to see you my friend how are you for one thing and then I'd love to learn everything you're willing to share absolutely thank you John gosh I'm a fan of yours I've loved your work you've um really helped holiday hack for so many years you know posting information helping people learn having people play and learn how to play and all the other stuff that y…