Red Bull, Muffins and Serious Problems

“Scoreboard Freeze!” sold by Schiedsrichter. One stunde before the end of the final of Austrian Cyber ​​​​Security Challenge (ACSC) never again on the big Leinwand said, well the team is happy to stay together.

The reaction is nice. You can do this best Nachwuchs-Hacker Österreichsthe pros in the open class and the Austrian team, which will go to the European Championship Final in October.

Ernste Gezicht is in love with Notebooks. When DJ Vengaboys asks, there is no one who announces “We’re going to Ibiza!”. There is a jumper who goes looking for a notebook bag that teammates use to shave – or for the next energy shot Red Bull and a muffin in the hole.

The emotion slide comes in 55 minutes. Now that we are ready for the end, a part of Europe – The Final Countdown is traditionally played, that is Freudenschreie with 2 teams. There is still no challenge that the punks can challenge, that they will get.

Qualifications-Mode can cause problems

There was a great war for the partisans who died Qualificationto make it in the Finale. Not, we will die if we were dishonest or dishonest, but we will on Preliminary rounds and fixed days were completed. Were in that time auf Scholarbeiten vorbereiten mustste, Project an der Uni zu erleden hatte or der aufgrund seiner Arbeit nicht genug Zeit in the Hacker-Aufgaben stecken konnte, war grim in the night.

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“We have a European Benchmark, we have a Qualifikation of the openECSC entspricht (offene Klasse Europameisterschaft). “We live together, we live our lives with other countries,” said Joe Pichlmayr from Verein Cyber ​​​​Security Austria, the ACSC’s administrator: “After the timing issue has occurred, the parts of the issue can be fixed, but it will still take some time before the mode is adjusted.”

2025 Jahr bleibt man zwar international, harmonisiert aber die Qualifikation, die im March and April now i’ll be alone with you Germany and the Switzerland. “The challenges were created by the organizers of the 3 states. If your country experiences more challenges, you can gain more time, do better,” said Pichlmayr.

The best Quali-Teilnehmer in Europe comes from Österreich

An exciting Sache brought with it the modern qualification system: “A young Austrian, from Team Austria, who is one of the most accomplished, a total of 3 qualification rounds for all challenges that are separate. Nobody else in Europe has accomplished that”, Pichlmayr rejoices.

It’s a matter of 17 years Matthias Pleschinger. The IT Ausnahmetalent is modest: „I was happy with my experience and enjoyed my time in my life. The man fell into an Art Trance and watched a dream arise and remarked: Yes, I have released the Aufgabe,” said Matthias.

Beim ACSC Final 2024 power is like Teil des Team Austria provided The Hacker-Nationalteam Österreichs uses the Veranstaltung as Course. “I am not good at doing things quickly, especially difficult things at all. I must also say that I have had the most comprehensive presentation. If you are here, you can train the EM and learn what you can do best.” The Hacker-EM European Cyber ​​​​Security Challenge took place in Turin on October. Whoever saves Matthias dies Chances of the Austrian team one? “I can’t predict that it won’t be good, that will be the big problem of the EM.”

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Geringer Frauenanteil, met Aussicht auf Besserung

There is no problem yet with the ACSC and general IT security problem, that is little woman. Heuer was alone 3 Women Among the 61 people in the final were sent: one in the junior category and 2 in team Austria.

The woman in the juniors is Chiara Handler. You could be in the final phase of the struggle: “You can be a leader who is never taken away. The war began in the semester at university, there was a bad idea that you would have. ‘ Man actually learned at every Challenge was that, also in the Qualification, even when it was small.”

Speaking to the little women, Chiara said: “If I haven’t gone to the HTL yet, it’s been in the Network Technology Class just 2 months ago, in comparison with 13 young people. It’s a private label, that is in Team Austria 2 women who are. And the Hackerinnen initiative, that you get power, is really cool.”

The initiative is from SBA research began and heißt Shecurity. “A 2-mal pro-monat hybrid mix-up has been found, which says that the man in the IT Security theme is being approached again. “The group bestows 180 Mädchen und Frauen,” says Pichlmayr.

The Anstoss for Security came from the Wish to attract more women for the topic: “With the AIT and the FH Oberösterreich have developed a research project for the communication of the ACSC analysis. It is a fact that they work together with their competitive communication, which makes women in the control system of IT security abstract. When the war started with the Hackerinnen-Gruppe Shecurity, a cooperation project was carried out. “

Esoteric Hacker Gigs

The final of the ACSC is traditionally a mix of both: Man rides black other one, but in the group. In the qualification everything is possible Single camperyou still fight for the Finale PloughingThe mirror of reality becomes larger as the IT security person interacts with college and computer systems, confidently and critically.

As soon as the Hacking call for the finalists will possibly change reality. “We have come to the wish of the part holder and have taken our last step through the Hacking Lab gene, which is a number of own things, which u. from former games, but also from support centers from the university network come, such as from the TU Wien and the TU Graz. There is also a path from an education platform to a competition platform-gegangen”, says Pichlmayr.

It starts with Veterans of the ACSC, who Felix Roithmayrder dieses Jahr ebenfalls wieder in der offenen Klasse in Finale war: “The challenges were nevertheless of high quality. To learn more about hacking-relevant skills, you can watch a ratespiel of your own. That’s why there are light challenges, but there are also plenty of challenges and esoteric ones.”

And what a beauty it is esoteric challenge? “We had to unlock a piece of information. If you want to send your message as an e-mail, then the hat of the savory. You can use a filter to prevent the information from being preceded by the uses. But with the right questions one can open the KI and get the answers, the man needs”, Felix explains. Esoterically, in this case, every fall is not worth discounting: “It was cool and it made fun. If the crypto challenge occurs, it is fallen – if he is in the war, it is done, he is loose.”

The winner of the ACSC 2024

These teams can continue their final in their jewel class:

Juniors

• Michael Gangl
• Bastiaan Uhlig
• Ulrich Barnstedt
• Christoph Tantscher
• Julian Burger

Seniors

• Maximilian Seidler
• Andreas Himmler
• Jonas Konrad
• Sebastian Felix
• Philipp Remplbauer

Open Class

• Roland Wallner
• Günter Ebermann
• Paul Panosch

I am still working on the finishing of the Mittlerweile Hallen of the Messe Wien Congress Center for another year. Schon mehrmals hat das ACSC-Finale die in het Rahmen der IKT-Sicherheitskonferenz stattgefunden.

Pichlmayr: “The 2025 Finale took place in the last June state fairs and we traveled across the country: to Dornbirn. Nothing ended up in a conference center that has a character with emphasis, a theme that is not brought: quickly with an IT security festival.”

This article is in one of the future zones and its cost Cybersecurity Austria.