{"id":486,"date":"2021-02-25T15:54:44","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T13:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csc.ac.za\/?p=486"},"modified":"2021-11-18T09:06:41","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T07:06:41","slug":"cyber-security-challenge-2021-kick-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.csc.ac.za\/?p=486","title":{"rendered":"Cyber Security Challenge 2021 Kick-Off"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Welcome to the official kick-off for the SANReN Cyber Security Challenge 2021!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For this year\u2019s CSC participants will have three opportunities to qualify for final CSC in December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first round will take place in the first semester and is intended for all South African universities who have Information Security or Cyber Security courses during the&nbsp;<em>first semester<\/em>&nbsp;of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second round will take place second 2021 and is intended for all South African universities who have Information Security or Cyber Security courses during the&nbsp;<em>second semester<\/em>&nbsp;of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The final qualifying round will take place between end of \u00a0September 2021 and is intended for student who missed their initial qualification rounds or who only have security training later in the academic year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the qualifying rounds each team will compete against other teams within their university. The ten teams with the highest score will be invited to represent their University in the finals in December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Teams must consist of at least three members but a fourth member can be added if the team contains members of mixed genders (this is our attempt to promote diverse groups).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To find out who your University\u2019s mentor is follow this&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/csc.ac.za\/?page_id=309\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To find out the rules of the CSC 2021 challenges follow this&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/csc.ac.za\/?page_id=264\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For training material please follow this&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/csc.ac.za\/?page_id=336\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSd7FF2eDtP-d50qAc6K-nPwVMksdZ6x2UeceO0YfNXLjd6N1g\/viewform?embedded=true\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"1423\" frameborder=\"0\">Loading\u2026<\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the official kick-off for the SANReN Cyber Security Challenge 2021!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-csc","category-registration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csc.ac.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csc.ac.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csc.ac.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csc.ac.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csc.ac.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.csc.ac.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":490,"href":"https:\/\/www.csc.ac.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions\/490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csc.ac.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csc.ac.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csc.ac.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}