KYIV. Jan 30 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Ukrainian IT team dcua in 2016 won first place in the CTFtime ranking among specialists able to determine the degree of system protection against attacks and build it, the press service of Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute has said.
According to the rating, posted on the website of CTFtime, Ukrainian IT specialists from the institute drew ahead of more than 12,000 teams from around the world.
Ukrainian team dcua, created in 2012, is led by research fellow from the institute Mykola Ilyin. Currently the team consists of 43 players.
Dcua has been in the top ten in the CTFtime rating for the past four years. In 2013 the team ranked fifth place, in 2014 and 2015 sixth.
The CTFtime rating is drawn up as a result of participation of teams during the year in international competitions in the field of information security. In 2016 it was based on the results of 70 competitions.
Capture the Flag (CTF) in the field of cyber security is a team competition for protection of information aimed at finding vulnerabilities in the system, determining the extent of its vulnerability and finding the ways to eliminate weaknesses.
