RuCTF 2012 – Very interesting

We participated in RuCTF 2012 with about 8 team members. It was our first Attack/Defense style CTF and we liked it….sort of. Let’s say we were learning every second and trying to keep up and get our network and tooling ready during the CTF instead of before the CTF. 🙂

What did we learn:

• Prepare, prepare and prepare;
• Make sure you have enough people: 1 teamlead, 2 defense, 1 system management, one for each challenge at least;
• Create an automated attack framework that works in advance to launch your attacks against 50-100 opponents 9 services every 5 minutes. You do not want to manually perform 450-900 attacks each minute excluding posting flags afterwards;
• The teamlead should allocate the appropriate tasks to each team member and stick to it.

We managed to get to 7th place in the Final2 group but were done at around 01:30. We pulled the plug on our network and called it a quits. We ended up 15th as a result, not bad for a first timer.

Thanks to the RuCTF team for setting this thing up, great work. Until next year!