OVERVIEW
ASEAN Student Contest on Information Security (ASCIS) is the biggest annual Capture the Flag (CTF) competition in cyber security for Asean students organized by Vietnam Information Security Association (VNISA) under the sponsorship of the Ministry of Information and Communications and the Ministry of Education and Training of Viet Nam with hundreds of students attended every year.
ASCIS 2024 is the 17th time competition for Vietnamese students and the 6th time for ASEAN students.
ASCIS 2023 has attracted nearly 233 teams with more than 900 students from 63 universities of 10 countries in ASEAN.
The contest 2024 has 2 rounds, timeline expected:
The Qualifying Round
– Online CTF (Jeopardy) on October 5th, 2024 (expected), within the duration of 8 hours.
– The format of this round includes: Pwnable (exploiting software errors, buffer overflow, format string, shellcode…); Reverse engineering (software source code reverse engineering, unpacking the packers, crypters to protect the software); Web (Web application attack techniques); Crypto/ACM (Decode puzzles, attack cryptographic algorithms, use programming/algorithmic skills to solve games, mazes…).
– Unlimited number of teams of institution to compete in this round.
The Final Round
– The teams from Viet Nam compete onsite, the teams from other ASEAN Member States compete online on October 19th, 2024 (expected) within the duration of 8 hours (same time phase 2 of the Semifinal Round).
This round divided into 2 groups:
+ Group A: (Attack-Defense) include 20 teams representing 20 schools with the highest results in the Qualifying Round (1 team per school).
+ Group B: (Jeopardy) include teams representing schools, each school has 1 Team with the highest results in the Qualifying Round (but not part of the Group A Team).
Each school has no more than 2 Teams participating in the Final Round (no more than 1 Team per group)
Teams that do not score points in the Qualifying Round cannot compete in the Final Round.