An original event took place last week in Moscow: Positive Hack Days — an international forum on practical information-security issues that aimed to “unite hackers and information security companies so that they could understand how much they need each other.”
In addition to roundtables and masterclasses on a wide range of information security issues, the program included “contests in security analysis, hacking, and protection of everything that is possible and impossible to hack and protect.”
In what was presented as an “Olympiad,” teams of young professionals protected their networks and attacked the networks of their competitors during an eight-hour period.
In another contest, participants tried to hack Apple’s Safari browser. The winner was Nikita Tarakanov, technical director of CISSRT, a provider of software vulnerability analysis.
The event was organized by Positive Technologies, a Moscow-based information security company that claims to be “the only company in Russia and one of the few companies in the world that concentrates on different aspects of security assessment” with a team of “practitioners in the field of safety analysis.”
Companies sponsoring the event included Cisco and Kaspersky Lab.
