InCySe Hackathon 2025

Industrial Cybersecurity in a Connected World

April 7th - April 17th 2025

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Both Challenges Are Live!

It’s time to show off your skills! Both the Identify-Build-Demonstrate (IBD) and Find the Flag challenges are now open for participation.

πŸš€ IBD Challenge

Start building your decentralized prototype today!

πŸ“€ Please submit the public URL to your project repository using the form: Submit Here

πŸ΄β€β˜ οΈ Find the Flag Challenge

Explore, hack, and uncover vulnerabilities! This challenge is now live.

πŸ“˜ Access the challenge details: View Challenge Instructions

⏰ Final submissions for both challenges are due by April 16th, 2025.

InCySe Objectives

Encourage students, especially undergraduate students, to consider a career in industrial cybersecurity. Impart knowledge of emerging technologies through hands-on learning facilitated by hackathon challenges.

InCySe Identify, Build and Demonstrate (IBD)

Duration: Flexible. Final submissions due on April 16th.

Mode: Hybrid

Eligibility: Teams of up to 2 people. Challenge is open to graduate and undergraduate students from all disciplines!

Objective: Identify, build and demonstrate a valid decentralized application for a specific industrial use case. Your objective will be to build a working blockchain based, decentralized prototype using state-of-the-art tools such as IPFS and Ethereum in areas including but not limited to:

Expected Deliverables: Poster for your decentralized application and prototype to be presented at the IEM Research Symposium on April 17th. Your code for the working prototype including instructions on how to run it can be submitted using the submission link.

Team with the most innovative proposed prototype judged through the poster competition wins the challenge!

InCySe Find The Flag

Duration: 1 week

Mode:Hybrid

Eligibility: Teams of up to 2 people. Challenge is open to OSU students from all disciplines!

Objective: Bolster core cyber-security concepts by learning techniques that can help protect critical infrastructure from devastating cyber-attacks. In this challenge, your objective will be to uncover and report as many attack points as you can with respect to a hosted critical infrastructure based IT system. You will gain exposure to the following concepts:

Expected Deliverables: A list of each vulnerability that you uncovered including code of how that vulnerability can be taken advantage of.

Team that uncovers the most number of vulnerabilities wins the challenge!

Hackathon Timeline (click for details)

March 12, 2025

Registration Opens

March 19, 2025

Online Tutorials Release

April 7, 2025

Submission Window Opens

April 9, 2025

Find The Flag Challenge Release

April 16, 2025

Submission Window Closed

April 17, 2025

InCySe IBD Poster Presentation.

April 18, 2025

Winners awarded at IEM Awards Banquet.

Registration Opens

Participants can register online through the official hackathon website. Ensure at least one team members are registered by the deadline to secure a spot. Make sure to subscribe to the InCySe slack channel

InCySe Online Tutorials Release

  • Modern Webapp Architecture: How does a modern web application look like?: A brief review of all working parts.
  • REST API fundamentals: Representational State Transfer (REST APIs) and ways to protect modern web applications.
  • Snooping on your browser How to secure frontend applications and uncover flaws and security risks.
  • Containerized Applications: Package your code to run on someone else's computer.
  • Ethereum Smart Contracts: What are Smart Contracts? Deploying Smart Contracts with Python.
  • Visualization: Visualize code using Streamlit.

Submission Link Open

  • InCySe IBD participants can now start submitting their prototypes.
  • A GitHub link to your project with a detailed README.md is preferred.

Find The Flag Challenge Release

  • Detailed challenge description of the Find The Flag Challenge will be released on this website.
  • Participants will have exactly one week to find and report vulnerabilities
  • You can upload your list of vulnerabilities and how to exploit them using the submission link detailed above.

Submission Window Closed

  • Submission Window is closed for both Find the Flag and IBD challenges.
  • IBD participants will be required to present a poster at the IEM Research Symposium.

Poster Presentation and Awards

  • IBD participants would need to present a poster at the IEM Research Symposium on April 17th 2025.
  • Winners of both Find The Flag and IBD will be announced at the symposium.

Awards for Winners

  • Winners of both Find The Flag and IBD will be felicitated at the IEM Awards banquet.
  • IEM Awards Banquet to be held at Student Union, Starlight Terrace from, April 18th, 6pm-9pm
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Resources & Tutorials

Enhance your skills with our curated tutorials covering:

Fundamentals: Understand the basics and applications of blockchain technology.

Cybersecurity Essentials: Learn key concepts and practices to protect digital assets.

Python Tools: Explore Python libraries and tools relevant to cybersecurity and blockchain development.

Access all materials here: InCySe Tutorials & Resources

Prizes

Prizes worth up to $1400 are up for grabs in two exciting challenges: Find-The-Flag and Identify-Build-Demo!

πŸš€ Identify-Build-Demo Challenge

πŸ₯‡ Winner

Prizes worth $450

🌟 Runners-Up

Prizes worth $350

πŸ΄β€β˜ οΈ Find-The-Flag Challenge

πŸ₯‡ Winner

Prizes worth $350

🌟 Runners-Up

Prizes worth $250

Sponsors

We thank our sponsors for making the InCySe Hackathon possible.

Contact Us

Email: incyse-hackathon@okstate.edu