Welcome to the third annual Cybersecurity Across Disciplines (CyAD) Conferencehosted by the National Cybersecurity Training & Education Center (NCyTE)!
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Explore the field of embedded systems security with an introduction to MITRE’s Embedded Capture the Flag competition, an annual competition for students in high school through grad school.
In part one, participants will be introduced to the structure of the competition and will gain experience working with microcontrollers by building, flashing, and interacting with the reference design of the 2025 eCTF. They will then explore some basic techniques for attacking the unsecured design. No background experience is required for part one.
In part two, participants will dive deeper into embedded security by attacking real designs submitted by students and exploring the various techniques embedded security practitioners use to defeat secure designs. Understanding of fundamental cybersecurity topics is helpful for part two.
The workshop will be held in a computer lab. If you prefer to bring your own computer (Windows/Mac/Linux), it must have internet access and Python 3.12+ pre-installed. Docker Desktop is also highly recommended, but the workshop can be completed without it.
The workshop can be found at https://github.com/janisbent/ectf-workshop
Ben Janis is a Lead Embedded Security Engineer at MITRE, where he focuses on embedded security research and development. His expertise lies in microarchitectural attacks and developing compiler-assisted countermeasure insertion and automated vulnerability detection tools. In addition... Read More →
