Cynet has announced the company’s IR Challenge for incident response professionals.
The first-place winner of the contest will receive a $5,000 prize as the contest qualifies the investigative capabilities of participants against a set of challenges designed by top IR experts.
Cynet has assembled top analysts and researchers to build out challenges and ensure that solving the presented problems will strain the skills of even the most experienced responders. The main guideline in the IR Challenge is that the tests reflect real life scenarios rather than artificial mind drills. In light of that, the team has reviewed a large number of documented investigations to distill a total of 28 patterns, starting from easy and becoming progressively more difficult as the IR professional proceeds.
Incident response (IR) is a methodical approach to orchestrating and managing the response after a cyberattack or other security breach. The objective is to confidently manage the situation in a way that reduces damage and limits recovery time and costs. Prominent to this process is the ability to conduct a forensic investigation across the attacked environment in order to form a clear understanding of the incident’s root cause, attack vectors and overall impact. The challenge also tests for IR investigative strengths of participating individuals, allowing them to measure and sharpen their skill set.
Success in the IR Challenge will be based on the results as well as the time it took the contestant to solve. At the end of the two-week contest period, a winner will be declared and the results of the challenge will become available. The Cynet IR Challenge questionnaire will remain online afterward as a free resource for IR practitioners.
The Cynet IR Challenge is open now and will remain open until May 15th, 2020.
