NetWars: Cyber Defense
What is Cyber Defense NetWars?
The all-new Cyber Defense NetWars challenge is a defense-focused competition aimed at testing your ability to solve problems and secure your systems from compromise. Cyber Defense NetWars is a truly unique experience, and an opportunity to test your skills in Administration, Threat Hunting, Log Analysis, Packet Analysis, Cryptography, and much more.
Topics Include:
- Windows Administration
- Linux Administration
- Packet Analysis
- Network Security Monitoring
- Continuous Security Monitoring
- Logfile Analysis
- Cryptography
- Steganography
The SANS Cyber Defense NetWars Experience:
- Consists of an interactive, Internet-based environment that tests a player's ability to secure systems and detect compromises
- Is designed to be accessible to a broad level of player skill ranges
- Is split into separate levels so players may quickly advance through earlier levels to the level of their expertise.
The entire challenge involves four levels:
Level 1 - Defending and Securing the wall
Level 2 - Defend against wildling attacks
Level 3 - Defending against undead attacks
Level 4 - Defending against the dreaded Night King
Who Should Attend:
- Security Administrators
- Enterprise Defenders
- Architects
- Network Engineers
- Incident Responders
- Security Operations Specialists
- Security Analysts
- Builders and Breakers
Laptop Requirements
- CPU
- <64-bit Intel i5/i7 2.0+ GHz processor
- BIOS
- Enabled "Intel-VT"
- RAM
- 16 GB RAM
- Hard Drive Free Space
- 40 GB Free space
- Operating System
- Latest version of Windows 10, macOS 10.15.x or later, or Linux that also can install and run VMware virtualization products described below.
Note: If you are running MacOS 11 (BigSur), you may run into issues preventing use of the VM in VMWare Fusion 12. For help, check out our BigSur-Fusion 12 guide.
