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