The fourth edition of Cyberchallenge.it, the national competition dedicated to young Italian ethical hackers, has come to an end, which for the first time was held entirely online.

The team from the Politecnico di Milano (DEIB) was also among the best on the podium.

The teams met in a complex Capture the flag (Ctf) type race, a sort of virtual flag stealer, in which each team was called to attack the computer infrastructure of the opponents, while protecting their own, and preventing others to take control of it. On the second day of CyberChallenge.IT, the eight teams that most distinguished themselves during the CTF competition exhibited presentations related to the world of digital security.

This type of competition requires extensive skills and a heterogeneous team in terms of training, capable of exercising offensive and defensive techniques in the fields of encryption, server management, and source code analysis. All topics that the CyberChallenge.IT students explored during the highly specialized training course in computer security, lasting twelve weeks, in which they participated between March and May.