Note: these events need help, scroll down if you’re interested in helping

Each year NYU Poly organizes the Computer Security Awareness Week (CSAW).

This is the largest student-run cyber security event in the nation,
with a research conference that attracts some of the biggest names in
the industry, and a career fair with an impressive list of corporate
partners. It’s a weekend of competitions, keynote talks and cyber
security events, designed to prepare best-performing students with the
skills and knowledge to shape the future of the industry.

The main event is the CSAW competition. Open to all. Saturday
September 20. Unallocated Space will be open from 3pm till…Midnight?

We’ll be going over a wide variety of challenges involving Internet
Reconnaissance, Forensics, Web Application Security, Reverse
Engineering, and Cryptography, and a trivia challenge by the
Department of Homeland Security.

The forensics challenges will include both “simple” artifact hunting
in single files, as well as live system forensics where participants
will be performing file carving, stenography, and log analysis to
uncover malware and more.

Other events prior to the competition:

• Are you a full time student that submitted a research paper to a
  conference or journal between September 2013 through August 2014?
  Enter that paper for a chance at prize money ($1000 for first place).
  https://research.isis.poly.edu/

• Enjoy writing policies, because seriously who doesn’t? The CSAW
  Policy Competition asks students to propose a policy in response to
  particular cyber risks. Not a student, but can’t refuse a policy
  writing session, or red teaming a policy, offer your services as a
  mentor.
  https://policy.isis.poly.edu/

• I’m sure most of us recall last Christmas when Target’s
  point-of-sale terminals were hacked. If that event got you thinking
  about ways to secure embedded devices such as those, CSAW Embedded
  Security Challenge is looking for proposals using emerging
  technologies to create hardware security primitives. Not a student but
  have experience and ideas, again feel free to offer yourself as a
  mentor.
  https://esc.isis.poly.edu/

Help Wanted
Yay, you made it this far!

Most competitions require teams of 3 full-time students and a mentor.
If you’re a college student, know of one that would be interested, or
looking to mentor a team, feel free to use this thread to form teams.
Even for the main competition, while anyone can play, only a team of
college student can make it to the finals. That team of college
students could be you and your classmates.

Main competition co-captain. These events typically bring a lot of
people to the space, If someone would be interested in herding half
the cats, let us know.

Forensics competition captain. A lot of members are focused solely of
forensics, I’d like to have someone with forensics knowledge to lead
our efforts for this competition.

See you all at the space for CSAW night!
-gomi