Global CyberPeace Challenge!

Get a chance to be a part of the Global CyberPeace Challenge (GCC). GCC is a journey to recognize and award cyber talents and build solutions to some pressing problems that our society faces. After the grand success of the first two editions of GCC, the third edition is now bigger, better, and bolder. Participate in any or all of the three tracks of GCC 3.0 to stand a chance to win exciting prizes and goodies. 

GCC 3.0 Tracks to participate:

Track 1 - Cyber Policy & Strategy Challenge - 

A simulated scenario will test the teams and players on their knowledge in foreign policy and cybersecurity and will then decide their worth as the next potential Leader of Cyber Security &Policy and the Winner of the competition.

Registration

1- Participants can register themselves by visiting the GCC official website (www.cyberchallenge.net)

2- Participants must provide their respective profiles that demonstrates their efficiency in the Strategy and Policy Domain.

3- Participants must adhere to the guidelines when filling up the form.

4- Entries will be shortlisted as per the data provided during the registration.

Grand Finale

1- Top 10 shortlisted Teams will be required to present their policy against the problem statement provided

2- The problem statement will be shared one-hour prior with the participants

3- A window of 48-hours will be provided for the final submission of the policy

4- The participants are required to produce original ideas, content if found plagiarized will be disqualified.

Track 2 - Capture The Flag

Capture the Flag (CTF) will be hosted online globally

CTF will be hosted in two phases – Elimination Round and Finale

Participants can participate individually or in the form of a team.

Participants will be required to find the vulnerability in the CyberPeace Range created by the hosting committee

Registration

1- Participants can register themselves by visiting the GCC official website (www.cyberchallenge.net)

2- Participants must provide their respective profiles that demonstrates their efficiency in the CyberPeace security domain

3- One entry per participant will be accepted

4- Participants must adhere to the guidelines when filling up the form

Elimination Round

1- Post registration participants will be given the link to elimination round

2- Elimination Round will be live for three weeks

3- 24 IT Challenges will be created

4- Primary ranking will be according to points from solved challenges. Ties will be broken by using each teams’ average time between “release” of challenge to time of solution submission

5- Mode will be Flag + Writeup, so teams must hand in a description of how they solved the challenge

Grand Finale

1- The Grand Finale of GCC-CTF 3 will be hosted virtually

2- Selected candidates will be given the credentials of CTF one hour prior the start of competition

3- A total of 12 challenges will be provided

4- Mode is Flag + Writeup, ties will be broken by writeup quality

Track 3 - Peace-a-thon

Peace-a-Thon will be hosted online globally

The competition will be hosted in two phases–Ideathon and Finale

Participants can register as individuals or as a team of three members

Participants will be required to develop a working solution to the given problem statement

Registration/ Ideathon

1- Participants can register themselves by visiting the official Global CyberPeace Challenge 3 (www.cyberchallenge.net)

2- A set of problem statements will be published on the website, participants will be selecting any of them as challenge to develop the solution

3- Participants need to submit their idea and technology to be used at the time of registration

4- Shortlisting of the participants/Teams will be done on the basis of the ideas submitted

5- One team/Participant can submit only one idea

Grand Finale

1- Shortlisted participant will be called for the Grand Finale of the Global CyberPeace Challenge 3

2- The grand finale of Peace-a-Thon will be hosted on Zoom

3- Link to join the competition will be mailed to the participants one hour prior to the start of competition

4- The grand finale will be a 36-hour long event, participants are requested to be online for the whole event

5- Multiple sessions/workshops will be organized for the participants during the grand finale