BelSU students make it to finals of International Cybersecurity Games

At international games, BelSU students demonstrated high skills in ensuring cybersecurity. The Cybersecurity Games offered two modes of participation: one could play either as an attacker in the red team or a defender in the blue team. BelSU students preferred to join the defending side. The team consisted of Dmitry Panasenko, Artem Bezmenov, Alexander Nizhnik, Mikhail Shatokhin, Daniil Bozhko with the team captain Daniil Sviloguzov.

The qualifying round started at the end of September with a 128-question quiz. The questions covered diverse fields, from information security, Windows OS and Windows Server, network basics, to DevOps methodology.

35 teams made it to the second stage of the selection, which lasted two weeks. There participants were offered to solve 10 tasks of varying difficulty against the clock. At this stage, the teams worked with the MaxPatrol 10 and NAD (Network Attack Discovery) systems.

PT MaxPatrol 10 is designed to collect, store and analyse data on events occurring in an organization’s IT infrastructure. This allows for monitoring the information security of both the entire infrastructure and individual departments, nodes and applications.

PT NAD is a network traffic behaviour analysis (NTA) system. PT NAD captures and analyses network traffic in detail both on the perimeter and inside the network. This allows for intruder identification both at the earliest stages of network penetration and during attempts to dig in and develop an attack inside the network. The competition task was to find among lots of data the IP address of an attacked computer or the computer used to carry out the attack. The contestants also had to find the file created by the attacker and marked as malicious. 20 teams have made it to the finals of the games.

‘Regardless of the result team obtains, I can say that this is a great opportunity to test one’s accumulated knowledge, improve professional and communication skills, work in a team, test high-quality domestic software and communicate with professionals from leading companies,’ shared the team captain.

The finals of the Cybersecurity games will be held online on the Standoff 365 platform on the 30-31st of October from 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. (8:00 a.m. to 5 p.m. UTC). The winners announced on the 1st of November will gain access to the finals of the spring season of the International Games at PHDays Fest-2025. Besides the status of the winners of the student battle and some Standoff team merchandise, they will get an opportunity to get an internship at PT Start or Jet Security Start.