The CSAW 2009 Awards Day will be on Tuesday, October 13th, 2009 at NYU-Poly's Downtown Brookyn campus. More information coming soon.

CSAW is NYU-Poly's annual cyber security competition that attracts hundreds of graduate, undegraduate, and high school students from across the country-- the brilliant young minds who will be tomorrow's cyber security experts.

CSAW was founded by Professor Nasir Memon, Director of NYU-Poly's Information Systems and Internet Security (ISIS) Lab, an NSF-funded lab and an NSA-designated Center of Excellence in both Information Assurance Research and Education (http://isis.poly.edu/).

Participants compete in a wide variety of individual and team challenges that are designed and administered by students from NYU-Poly's ISIS Lab and judged by experts from industry and government.

Since most challenges may be completed remotely, high school, undergraduate, and graduate students from anywhere in the United States may participate in CSAW.

The finalists in each challenge will receive travel grants to attend CSAW Awards Day on Tuesday, October 13^th, 2009 at NYU-Poly in Brooklyn, New York to compete for cash prizes.

What are the challenges?

• Capture the Flag: digital cyber attack and defense competition in detecting application security vulnerabilities.
• Embedded Systems Challenge: analyze an infected hardware platform and suggest solutions.
• Essay Contest: topic to be determined.
• Forensics Challenge: fictional murder mystery.
• Research Poster Competition: visually-compelling presentations of students' research.
• Security Awareness Poster Competition: visually-compelling message regarding a current information security topic of the students' choice.
• Security Quiz: teams compete head-to-head on a wide variety of topics.
• (NEW!) Sponsor-designed Challenge: sponsors at the $10,000 level and above may design their own unique challenge.

What and When Is CSAW Awards Day?

CSAW Awards Day will be on Tuesday, October 13^th, 2009 at NYU-Poly's Brooklyn, New York campus.

The day-long event will include:

• Judge deliberations
• Security Quiz Competition
• Networking luncheon for students, judges, and sponrors (NEW!)
• Awards Ceremony and cocktail reception
• Keynote address by a leading security expert or experts
• Special recruiting and presentation opportunities for sponsors

• First place: $500
• Second place: $250
• Third place: $100

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