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Greenfist- Africa’s biggest Cyberlympic for young cyber rangers is inspired by our promise of promoting sharing among the industry veterans and the young cyber security professionals.
The event aims to identify and raise new talents in offensive and defensive security in the process showcasing them as the next ninjas.
 Dr. Bharat Soni, Nigeria |  Harrison Nnaji, Nigeria |  Joylynn Kirui, Kenya |
 Abeer Khedr, Egypt |  Ade Akomolafe, Nigeria |  Phil Manny, UK |
 Rotimi Akinyele, Dubai |  Faheem Ali, Kenya |  Daniel Adaramola, Nigeria |
ABOUT THE GREENFIST CHALLENGE
Raising New Talents
The Greenfist event aims to identify and raise new talents in offensive and defensive security.
While the event is focused on Hackathon challenge, Greenfist encompasses a whole lot of other activities including series of learning boot camps, community engagements and mentoring sessions with industry experienced experts.
The Hackathon Challenge
Greenfist Hackathon challenges are organized in jeopardy-CTF (Capture the Flag Challenges) competition.
Areas covered in the CTF include Malware Analysis, Reverse Engineering, Threat Intelligence, Digital Forensics, Cryptography, Mobile App Exploitation, Web Application Exploitation, Network & Server Exploitation and Programming.
The Competition
During the event, we pitch young rangers in a real-life cyber security challenge.
Participants are selected from regions across the continent and are grouped in teams. Teams compete against players from same country first in an elimination round, then the top teams will then represent the country in the final rounds where the best teams emerge as top winners.
GREENFIST QUALIFYING ROUNDS
STAGES IN THE COMPETITION
Greenfist will run the 2023 Cyberlympics competition in two stages. Stage one includes a jeopardy-CTF competition encompassing the qualifying stages of teams selected from all over Africa. The second stage is the finals. The finals are open only to the top teams of the country level jeopardy-CTF competition.
QUALIFICATION STAGES
During the qualification stages, there are two sets of challenges for participants to solve.
The first set include series of ethical hacking challenges, while the second are work group projects. The challenges are provided to test participants competences in cyber range labs. On the hacking challenge, participants will earn points for solving challenges, individuals earning the most points will qualify to participate in a advanced stages in the qualifying rounds.
ABOUT THE ETHICAL HACKING LABS
The labs are geared towards helping the participants understand the art of vulnerabilities discovery, and vulnerabilities exploitation. Participants are guided through the core aspects of hacking covering dozens of techniques and a variety of offensive security techniques.
GREENFIST FINALS
We are dedicated to raising the top young offensive and defense ethical hackers all over Africa. The final stage will consist of winners at the various country or regional level challenges. At the finals teams compete to solve more demanding hacking challenges in a fast-paced setting.
Teams are made up of 3 to 5 players, 18 years of age or older. There will be a scoreboard where points will be assigned at the end of the competition based on the challenges that were completed. Each challenge will have a number of points based on the outcome and weight of the challenge. Winners will be selected based on the greatest number of points earned. In case of a tie, the team with the earlier submission of the last flag will be the winner.
Greenfist- Africa’s biggest Cyberlympic for raising cyber rangers of tomorrow
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