December 2023

At the conclusion of each semester, the BYU Cybersecurity Student Association(CSA) sponsors an internal CTF for all BYU students. For the past three semesters, I have taken part in running the end of semester CTF, with me taking point for the last two CTFs. This last semester we had over 60 students compete and over 80 challenges available for the students to complete. Categories ranged from password cracking, binary exploitation, web exploitation, scanning/reconnaissance, OSINT, forensics, cryptography, reverse engineering, and more. All of the challenges were made by BYU students, professors, or club leaders for CSA. I will be hosting one last internal BYU CTF just prior to my graduation in April, 2024.

The challenges I built covered the following topics:

• Password Cracking
• Scaning and reconnaissance
• Log analysis
• Cryptography
• Web Exploitation
• Misc.

I will add github links to some of the challenges after the competition has concluded.