CTF: Cybersecurity in Practice

Welcome to the course page of CTF: Cybersecurity in Practice.

In this full-year, extracurricular course, you work on a real-world hacking challenge in groups of 4-6 students. During the fall semester, you have bi-weekly lectures to familiarize yourself with the basics of hacking techniques, and bi-weekly meet-ups where you are trying to solve CTF challenges. In the spring semester, the meet-ups continue, with a focus on your final big challenge, and there are a few guest lectures as well. From the beginning of the course, and for the duration of the whole year, you receive a real-world hacking challenge/target, on which you aim to identify vulnerabilities, together with your teammates. We do this always in an ethical manner, following responsible disclosure principles, which will be explained at the beginning of the course. For the completion of the course, you deliver a report on the techniques you tried on the target, and their effect, and potentially, a security advice for the target to patch their vulnerabilities. Participation in the monthly progress update meetings, where each team reports on their findings and progress, together with delivery of a final report on your findings, counts as 2 extra-curricular ECTS (appear on your diploma, but only as extra credits). You are encouraged and supported (but not required) to compete with your teams at CTF events throughout the year, and we will ensure that you remain informed about them, and connected to the community. Note that the 2 ECTS points are not an indication of the expected work load for this extracurricular course.

On this website, you can find information about the course, schedule, staff and upcoming CTFs!

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