SANS Holiday Hack Winners and Answers

Best Overall Answer (Grand Prize Winner): David Forsythe (0xdf) | Report

Best Technical Answer: Cody Travis | Report

• Runners-Up: Michael Benedetti | Report

Most Creative Answer: Ben Krüger | Report

• Runners-Up: Michelle Duell | Report and Guillermo Lafuente | Report

Extra Special Noteworthy Exemplary Trophy (ESNET) Award: Sandro Bruscino | Report

Super Honorable Mentions

Mitch Darrow

Matthew Furtado

Ashish Gupta

Bernhard Griener

Hu83fby 

Roger Johnsen

Arin Lee

Andrea Lamonato

Scott Knight

James Mar

Devesh Mitra

Philip Naida

Dan Roberts

Ryuki 

Giuseppe Saturno

Shahne 

Matt Simmons

Jason Sosnowski

David Szili

Helen W

Tom van der Velden

Honorable Mentions

Pranav Arora

Ruan Botha

Guanhan Chew

Daniel Cockburn-Evans

David Collette

Leandro Costantino

Firaol Disasa

Kai Dusold

John Goedmakers

Josh Gold

Guorui

Tomoomi Iwata

Kamn

Tony Karre

Kory Kliner

Spencer L.

Lubo

Dan LaLone

Xhelal Likaj

Hans Liss

Lucia Morandi

Minh Nguyen

Dan O'Connor

Prashant Abdirahman Saed

Wojtek Świeboda

ZetaTwo

Grand Prize Winner: Cody Travis | Report

Best Technical Answer: James Mar | Report

Best Creative Answer that is Technically Correct: Ben K. | Report

Extra Special Noteworthy Exemplary Trophy (ESNET) Award: David (0xDF) | Report

Super Honorable Mentions Andrea Lamonato Bernhard Griener Cynthia Dueltgen Dan LaLone Dan O'Connor David Szili Giuseppe Saturno Guillermo Lafuente James Baldacchino Joerg Schwarzwälder Justin Paglerani Kim Penrose Maik de Kruif Michael Benedetti Matthew Furtado Nick DeBaggis Nicklas Alexander Scheel Philip Naida Roger Johnsen Tom van der Velden Tomoomi Iwata Xhelal Likaj

Honorable Mentions Adam Jenkins Aerin Stamps Alun Jones Amara AMHOUCHE Amy Merriman Annah Waggoner Arin Lee Basem Samarah blu Brian Carrick Bryan Williams Calle Svensson cano32 Chance Cindy Wu CyberSmyth Dale Fay Dale Perkel Davide Capasso Barbato Devesh Mitra DongHo Kim Elisa Elli Guanhan Chew Helen W James Coffey John Keller Jose Manuel Martinez Mejia Ken Clark Kory Kliner Krzysztof Balas Ladhawala Lily Lucia Morandi Mantas Gavenas Marcus Weber Misha Mitch Darrow Nathan Turnbull Nour Mohamed Oisin Martin Oliver Michels Paul Edwards Pranav Arora Priscilla L. PunIntended Rich Alexander Shahne Tad Jones Ulf Skoglund Yaron King

Grand Prize Winner: Jai Minton | Report

Best Technical Answer: Bernard Griener | Report

Runner-Up: Michael Benedetti | Report

Best Creative Answer that is Technically Correct: Gabriel Quiroz | Report

Runner-Up: Erez C | Report

Extra Special Noteworthy Exemplary Trophy (ESNET) Award: Forbytten | Report

Super Honorable Mentions:

James Baldacchino

Michael Benedetti

Brian Carrick

Adam Coirazza

Darkander

Andy Davies

Brian Davidson

Guillermo Lafuente

Andrea Lamonato

David Forsythe

Matthew Furtado

Roger Johnsen

Suppawej Kerdphol & Nuttakorn Dhiraprayudti

Steven Maestas

Philip Naida

Marco Parello

Dale Perkel

Giuseppe Saturno

Shahne

David Szili

Lukasz Sztukowski

Cody Travis

Alex Trylysenko

Thomas XM

Honorable Mentions:

Orin ag

Rich Alexander

Murat Cakir

RCarras

Ken Clark/Rachel Clark

Jeff Davies

Brian DeBaggis

Kai-Th. Dusold

Rob Freeman

LethalHack

Tomoomi Iwata

Daniel Kaufmann

Kory Kliner

Dan LaLone

Arin Lee

Lassi Lehtinen

Miguel Llamazares

James Mar

John Matczak

Mark Mulvaney

Munch

Akira Nishikawa

Dan O'Connor

Michael Odom

Jordan Porcella

Brad Priller

Dan Roberts

Joerg Schwarzwaelder

Kristof Tamas

Helen W

Bryan Williams

Grand Prize Winner: David Forsythe (0xdf) (David’s Answer: https://0xdf.gitlab.io/holidayhack2022/) (who in 2021 won Best Technical Answer)

Most Creative Answer: Joel Tan (Joel’s Answer: https://www.canva.com/design/DAFVRs-Lqaw/SuWk3toe0BfFN2r5U1iTpA/view?utm_content=DAFVRs-Lqaw&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton) (who created an animated story based on the challenge, and won runner-up Most Creative Answer in 2021)

Runner-Up Most Creative Answer: Brenda van Rensburg

Runner-Up Most Creative Answer: Dan O'Connor

Best Technical Answer (Tie): Mike Shirley (Mike’s Answer: SANS_HHC2022-writeup_MShirley - Michael Shirley.pdf)

Best Technical Answer (Tie): Jai Minton (Jai's Answer: https://www.jaiminton.com/HHC/2022/) (who won best creative answer in 2021)

Runner-Up Best Technical Answer: Nivedan Rajasekar

Extra Special Noteworthy Exemplary Trophy Award (Tie): Thomas Bouve (Thomas’ Answer: https://n00.be/HolidayHackChallenge2022/)

Extra Special Noteworthy Exemplary Trophy Award (Tie): Joerg Schwarzwaelder (Joerg’s Answer: https://github.com/joergschwarzwaelder/hhc2022 and Santa’s Data Lake: https://joergschwarzwaelder.github.io/Santas-DataLake.html)

Super Honorable Mentions:

James Baldacchino

R. Bastiaans

Michael Benedetti

Duncan Brickner

Pedro Cabral

Craig Campbell

Alberto Certo

Brian Davidson

Paul DeCamp

Jonahlyn Gilstrap-Oskay

Ashish Gupta

Elaine Hung

Roger Johnsen

Jay Johnson

Divyateja Kasula

Suppawej Kerdphol

Mitch Kerle

Kusuwada

Dan LaLone

Andrea Lamonato

YW Lee

Lassi Lehtinen

Marcel M.

Steven Maestas

James Mar

Wade Matistic

Shelby Medina

Dale Perkel

Gabriel Quiroz

Dan Roberts

Juan Romero

Chris Ruggieri

Charles Sanders

Karthick Siva

Joerg Schwarzwaelder

Jason Sosnowski

David Szili

Cody Travis

Dolf Visscher

Justin Wylie

Shahne (Zysygy)

Honorable Mentions:

Marcus Andersson

Pranav Arora

Jeff Beazley

Himadri Bhattacharjee

Blake Bourgeois

David Brochhaus

Brian Carrick

Ken/Rachel Clark

Ádám Csörnyei

Brian DeBaggis

Wendy Edwards

shahaf el

Alexandra Gomez

Charles Goodling

Christopher Henseler

Rene Holt

Hu83fby

Tomoomi Iwata

Alisya K

Nick Kantor

Joe Kattner

Yaron King

Nikhil Kumar

Arin Lee

Lucia Morandi

Akira Nishikawa

Charlie Retzler

Julien Richard

Javier Santos

Giuseppe Saturno

Gage Saunders

Matt Simmons

Glyn Snowden

Lukasz Sztukowski

Norihisa Takagi

Helen Wright

0x3b0b

forbytten

Ben (Darkander)

Grand Prize Winner: Thomas Bouve (Thomas's Answer) (who in 2020 won Best Technical Answer)

Most Creative Answer: Jai Minton (Jai's Answer) (who created a 3D video game based on the Holiday Hack Challenge itself)

Runner-Up Most Creative Answer: Joel Tan

Best Technical Answer: David Forsythe (David's Answer)

Runner-Up Best Technical Answer: Roger Johnsen

Super Honorable Mentions:

Anand Kanani

James Baldacchino

R. Bastiaans

Walter Belgers

Michael Benedetti

Olivier Bettan

Blake Bourgeois

Mike Boyle

Brian Carrick

Alberto Certo

Matthew Ciantar

Walid Daboubi

Brian Davidson

Paul DeCamp

Nuttakorn Dhiraprayudti

Miroslav Dimitrov

eldiridge

Jacob Elliott

Jeshua Erickson

fatsheep

Dan Fedele

Matthew Furtado

John Goff

ASHISH GUPTA

Michael Hertrick

Joe Kattner

Nikola Knežević

Ben Krueger

kusuwada

Xhelal Likaj

George Mantakos

Pasi Mäntynen

James Mar

Daniela Mariaschi and Massimo Mariaschi

Wade Matistic

Yannick Méheut

Devesh Mitra

Dan O'Connor

Kyle Parrish

Dale Perkel

Dickson Quek

Dan Roberts

Shahne Rodgers

Julian Runnels

Jeroen Schijvenaars

Jörg Schwarzwälder

Mo Sharif

Mike Shirley

Matt Simmons

Jason Sosnowsk

Nate Thornton

Cody Travis

Justin Wylie

Honorable Mentions:

Fabian Andre

Pranshu Bajpai

Barbie

Jeff Beazley

Mike Boyle

Adam Coirazza

CosmicHitman

Michael Deibert

Hack3dlazy

Wendy Edwards

eucrates

Simon Roses Femerling

William Fleisher

geospider

Bernhard Griener

Christopher Henseler

Tomoomi Iwata

JariR

janusz jasinski

Anand Kanani

Daniel Kaufmann

Mitch Kerle

yaron king

Akvile Kiskis

Pinja Koskinen

Laura

Link

lolkatz

Steven Maestas

Patrick Malter

Darryl Miles

minispooner

Mark Mulvaney

Jason Navarrete

Sven Bursch-Osewold

Sebastian Perez

Nivedan Rajasekar

Chris Ruggieri

Michael S

Giuseppe Saturno

Johann Schnagl

Adam Snedden

Glyn Snowden

Stefan Soto

Calle Svensson

David Szili

defyp and unikbyte

Clayton VanTol

Bryan Williams

Lee Chong Yu

Grand Prize Winner: Stanislav Nurilov

Most Creative Answer: Jeremy Phillips

Runner-Up Most Creative Answer: Mark Mulvaney and Mike Boyle

Best Technical Answer: Thomas Bouve

Runner-Up Best Technical Answer: Neal Eikenberry and Janusz Jasinski