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NYU Cybersecurity Industry Badge - Cyber STRIKE 2021 - Loan Shark

Michelle Kushnir

As of 9/17/2021, the Cyber STRIKE 2021 - Loan Sharkis no longer being actively awarded.

To earn the Cyber STRIKE 2021 Lone Shark, NYU Cybersecurity Industry Partner badge, badge earners have completed the following through a competitive capture-the-flag style exercise in a small team:
-Tested incident response skills and knowledge
-Tested troubleshooting and research ability.
-Analyzed a realistic compromise of a business network using industry-standard tools.

Each of these activities lead to a defensive CTF-style exercise on a virtual network.

In completing this NYU Industry Partner badge, badge earners learned how to do the following:
-Identify the binary names of the supply chain compromised software.
-Identify the hostnames of infected clients.
-Identify the IP address of the malicious server that is exfiltrating data.
-Identify the hostname of the infected server.
-Identify the first timestamp of exfiltrated data.
-Identify the last timestamp of exfiltrated data.
-Identify the number of times that data was exfiltrated from the network.
-Identify the filename of the output written to disk by the malware.

Skills / Knowledge

  • Computer Forensics
  • Computer Network Defense
  • Information Assurance
  • Information Systems/Network Security
  • Operating Systems
  • Problem Solving
  • Threat Analysis
  • Data Privacy and Protection

Issued on

September 24, 2021

Expires on

Does not expire