Quiz Tournament
Quiz Tournament
Open to: high school, undergraduate, and graduate students located in the continental U.S.
Register/Registration deadline: Coming soon,please chech back.
Event date: TBA
Team captain: Sen Yang and Jon Chittenden
The Quiz Tournament tests your breadth and depth of knowledge in broad range of digital security topics. The covered topics include, but are not limited to, network security, cryptography, malware, application and web security, protocols, the history of digital security, digital forensics, and policy, risk management, and standards.
Prizes
Master of Science scholarships for students who attend NYU-Poly:
- 1st place: $5,000
- 2nd place: $3,000
- 3rd place: $3,000
Cash prizes for winners:
- 1st place: $500
- 2nd place: $250
- 3rd place: $100
Rules/Format
- There are qualifying rounds and a final round. The top two teams of each qualifying round competes in the final round.
- All questions have short answers
- Quiz Moderator asks 10-12 questions at each round
- Every team tries to answer the questions simultaneously
- For each question, teams have 30 seconds to write down their answer on a sheet of paper
- After 30 seconds, teams show their answers to the Quiz Moderator
- Teams earn 1 point for each of their correct answer
- At the end of each round, teams are ranked according to their points
- The Polytechnic Institute of NYU reserves the right to adapt these rules as needed prior to the contest
About the Quizmaster
William Hugh Murray is an executive consultant for TruSecure Corporation and a Senior Lecturer at the Naval Postgraduate School. He is a Certified Information Security Professional (CISSP) and serves as Secretary of ISC2, the certifying body. He is also an advisor on the Board of Directors of the New York Metropolitan Chapter of ISSA. For a more detailed biography, please see this article about him at Information Security Magazine.
Sample Questions
| TOPIC | QUESTION | ANSWER |
| Hardware | There was a vulnerability where a Firewire device, when plugged in, can overwrite anywhere in memory. What hardware protocol caused this? | DMA or Direct Memory Access |
| Digital Forensics | What is the hiding of a secret message within an ordinary message and the extraction of it at its destination called? | Steganography |
| History, Personality & Literature | What was the name of the 1983 movie where Mathew Broderick played a young hacker who gained access to a government nuclear war simulator? | War Games |
| System/Network Admin | In Microsoft Internet Explorer, which file stores information about a user’s browsing history such as URLs? | the index.dat file |
| Cryptography | In practical cryptography, what is the name of the functions that are embodied in a physical structure, that is easy to evaluate but hard to characterize. | PUF or Physical Unclonable Function |
