The European Cyber ​​Security Championship takes place in Bucharest

The European Cyber ​​Security Championship is a multinational competition dedicated to different aspects of IT infrastructure protection. It takes place every year, and the sixth stage of 2019 takes place in Bucharest.

Romania’s team currently ranks first, followed by Italy, Austria, Germany and Poland. The contest will end during today.

Teams from 19 countries compete at the European Cyber ​​Security Championship in events such as:

• Web security;
• Cryptography;
• Reverse engineering and investigations;
• programming;
• Penetration tests;
• Attack and defense;
• Linux / windows / macOS security;
• Mobile phone security.

Teams are transposed into a scenario that involves the development and defense of an infrastructure. The most important part will remain the development and defense of their own infrastructure, but attacking the other teams brings points.

Young and powerful

The participants are between the ages of 16 and 25, and the teams are made up of 2 (maximum 3) coaches and maximum 10 competitors. There are two categories: 5 juniors (between 16 and 20 years old) and 5 seniors (between 21 and 25 years old).

The national phase took place on September 3-8, 2019, in Bran, where CERT-RO, ANSSI and the Cyberint National Center organized the second training and selection stage of the team that represented Romania. In addition to the organizers, Orange, BIT SENTINEL and certSIGN, partners of ECSC 2019, held training and testing sessions.

In 2017, the Romanian team took second place at the edition held in Malaga in Spain. Spain placed first, and Italy completed the podium.

We hold their fists and come back with an update today.