During the exercise, 10 teams of ethical hackers launched attacks on the infrastructure of the virtual city-state F, and security specialists defended it. 65 thousand people from different countries watched this confrontation.
“White” hackers tried to disable the main infrastructure facilities of the city-state: to arrange an oil spill and explosions, to turn off the power lines at the substation. The defenders had to investigate incidents to rule out such scenarios in real life.
In 35 hours, ethical hackers managed to arrange 19 unacceptable events. The winner was the Codeby&Nitroteam team. Its members disrupted the operation of treatment facilities, causing several million liters of sewage to spill into the environment. In total, the team arranged six incidents.
The organizers noted that none of the ethical hackers were able to implement the most critical scenarios. At the same time, the teams of defenders who investigated the incidents were able to identify 173 attacks.
The Standoff is organized by Positive Technologies, one of the leaders in the Russian information security market. The company presented the online platform The Standoff 365, designed to organize cyber-training on an ongoing basis.
The platform responds to the industry's demand for measurable and effective security, which means that critical risks to a company, industry, or country must not be realized. The Standoff 365 consists of a cyber polygon on which the operational and business processes of the fuel and energy complex are recreated. It will be launched next spring.
In addition, as part of the exercise, the Standoff Young Hats track for young IT security professionals and The Standoff Digital Art competition were held. Its participants checked the security of smart contracts. Six works by digital artists were presented in the form of NFTs (non-fungible tokens). Security experts were asked to find vulnerabilities in technologies and change smart contracts so as to appropriate NFTs for themselves. The organizers note that the competition is also aimed at drawing attention to the safety of the NFT technology.
Earlier, CySecurity News was reported that Russian President Vladimir Putin has set the task of digital transformation of key sectors of the economy. Therefore, to protect them, the country has created cyber polygons.
