Closing Keynote and Award Ceremony Capture The Flag

But I'm really excited of talking about the capsule of flag event. I, it feels like two minutes ago when I shared the the deformity ideas, we will have eight different challenges and now it's all gone. The conference three days full packed of really cool stuff. So that was really amazing.

Again, we had 12 teams, 52 participants, five enterprise teams and five student teams. And maybe you remember my statement is, was yesterday in the evening that we plan to have eight challenges at the beginning and after 90 minutes, six of them have been already solved. So obviously we had have done also the challenge in that way that we can have attack and defender students versus enterprises because we really had strong teams on both sides.

So maybe that's an idea for next year, but we didn't keep eight challenges to treat a little or to see a little bit how good the students and enterprises are. We just added three more challenges and at the end the winner teams solved eight of 12 flags I guess, or was it 11 of of 10? 10 10 of the flags. And that's really amazing. And the good thing is we do not really have losers today for sure. The participants of the capture flag event had also the opportunity to join the conference. What they also did, they experienced different things here.

They learned something, the student did some networking, the enterprises as well. And I think that is a really cool experience for all of them. And before we start with the real award ceremony, yeah, we'll really clap your hands for all the teams. That was really amazing.

Okay, so let's start with the student team. The team from the university or LY from Ingle.

Akko, Dominic Micha, please come on stage. Okay. So to see a little bit, the typical hacker has a hoodie and we have, maybe it's a special color this time, but the prize is not only the honor, which you hopefully will compete next year as again, the honor is having one of the exclusive eight pieces of capsule flag hoodies. So congratulations for that. First of all, regarding the size you need, need to check and, or maybe you do it that way. That's easier. Perfect, thank you. And what was the strategy? Why did you win?

We, we did a lot of preparation and we had some challenges. We already knew that for example, Dominic will do the native challenges like the binary exploitation, the reversing and other people will do the web challenges. So once we saw the challenges, we already knew, okay, he's going to do this one, he's going to this one. Perfect. And will you attend next year as well if you do it to compete? Hopefully. Very good answer. Thank you. Okay. And then the enterprise team, it was a really tight ending.

Six minutes decided Eon and telecom had been on the same level and six minutes decided. So the Deutsche Telecom team called Lucky Meteors one, Yvonne, Mike Di and Justin, are you still here? Perfect.

Again, the same procedure. Innovative. Right. Awesome. Thank you. Perfect. So what did Thomas say to your success? Does he already know? I think he does know yet, but you know, he might be, not that I hope he's not that surprised, but Maybe I should ask the question. The other teams, what was your strategy? Any specific preparation or just everyday business?

Well, We had no preparation as we sold in the first day. So it was business as usual I guess. Perfect. So good sign for Toy Telecom. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. And thank you very much for participating and hope to see you next year. And we have now Bert Gale back on stage to wrap up these days.

Yeah, it was a, was a long three days and the three days have come to an end now and I'm really surprised that despite the train strike and flu infection all around, still quite, quite, some people are here until the very end. As I mentioned at the beginning, we discussed these four streams. Anticipate, innovate together. And I think we really achieved the goal here. And I think back on anticipate, obviously AI was, was everywhere almost in every presentation that played a role for a good reason obviously.

And I do hope that everyone has now a little bit of a better understanding about the implications, what that means for us, et cetera. At least I, and I thought I know already something learned a lot. Yeah. But of course there were also other things like blockchain, like quantum, et cetera, which for good reason were discussed in the anticipate stream. And of course we also even looked further ahead five, 10 years and did some scenario analysis, which was also quite, quite interesting.

And we will do this, we promised that we will repeat that now every year so that we are always, every year, five, 10 years ahead of time, which I think is a nice exercise, innovate. I think that was all about our vendors obviously they, we had, we, we saw cool solutions from cool vendors, so that was really, really great. We had a lot of vendors here, et cetera together also. Very good. When I think of the main topics here, of course we talked about zero trust, this is still very important.

Of course, we talked about ransomware attacks and how to behave in that situation and many other things, vulnerability management and, and, and I don't want to repeat now everything. And I do hope that people, at least that was the feedback I heard that, that people tell me, well, we didn't know that there were so many large people around and they talked and interacted. So that was really great.

Yeah, thank you for that. We also had some fun facts like, like the art of coding for example, that I found very inspiring as well. And we also, we already said next year we will make it even bigger and more prominent here.

So, so that's, that's a good thing as well. Now my, I my iPad died.

Yeah, most important thing. What what really was the, the, the most surprising outcome of this event in my opinion was the vibes.

I, regardless whether you were the cease CAW or a young talent winning the Capture the Fleck award, I think we all benefited from each other and we all liked each other. We talked to each other and learned from each other. And I think that is for me, the best achievement of this event. And this is something we can build on and we will build on going forward. I would of course also forward thanks to my team, to the co coal team who made this all possible. It was a lot of effort. It was the first time in Frankfurt small team and I think you agree that they earn a pecan for that.

And I also want to thank obviously the other people who made it economically possible that we are all together, our sponsors who are also here around and I do hope no, no sponsor eight, one of the participants. So I saw also hear very good interactions. So thanks for that. Thanks for coming and contributing to this event.

Now, as I mentioned in my starting opening of the conference, obviously we want you not only to take home good memories, but also we are fully aware not everyone could attend all the presentations. I will certainly have to spend some time to watch a couple of videos because I couldn't attend them all and they were very interesting. So I encourage you to do the same and benefit from that. As I already mentioned, please also have a look at our research. You all have access to it and we would not be angry if you like it and perhaps become a member of the community.

I wish you a safe trip back despite the strike. And hopefully we'll see each other late next year on the same location Again, if you are, if you don't want to wait so long, you can join us in Berlin in June at EIC. We would really be happy to see you all again. Thank you very much.