Phase 1: March 2024 - June 2024
The first selection phase will lead to the selection of at most 50 candidates for the making of TeamItaly 2024.
The following prerequisites must be met in order to participate in this phase:
- Junior category: born between January 1st, 2004 and December 31st, 2009
- Senior category: born between January 1st, 1999 and December 31st, 2003
Talents will be selected based on the following criteria:
- the best 5 talents from OpenECSC 2024
- the best 3 talents from OliCyber.IT 2024
- the best 3 talents from CyberChallenge.IT 2024
- the best 36 talents from the TeamItaly 2024 official selection event.
- the best 3 talents who played other CTF competitions not considered in the previous criteria or who have demonstrated great value in the past either in TeamItaly or, more in general, in the Italian CTF community.
What follows is more information regarding the aformentioned competitions, providing more details about the specific selection criteria.
openECSC 2024
OpenECSC is an event organized by the Italian National Cybersecurity Agency (ACN) and the CINI Cybersecurity National Lab, open to everyone and that takes place in 4 independent rounds throughout all 2024.
The selection process for TeamItaly will consider the first three rounds:
- 1st round: March 18th 2024, 10:00 UTC - March 24th 2024, 22:00 UTC
- 2nd round: April 22nd 2024, 10:00 UTC - April 28th 2024, 22:00 UTC
- 3rd round: May 13th 2024, 10:00 UTC - May 19th 2024, 22:00 UTC
Talents will be selected trying to balance the demonstrated skills in the various challenge categories and considering the two age categories defined by ECSC 2024.
In order to join the selection via openECSC, it is necessary, other than indicating the nationality and date of birth during the registration, to also explicity enroll in the process using
this link.
OliCyber.IT 2024
The Italian Olympiads in Cybersecurity (
OliCyber.IT), organized by the CINI Cybersecurity National Lab del CINI, are a competition program aimed at connecting secondary school students with the issues of cybersecurity.
The selection for TeamItaly will consider the results of the national competition, trying to balance the demonstrated skills in the various challenge categories.
CyberChallenge.IT 2024
CyberChallenge.IT is the first cybersecurity training program for university and secondary school students, organized by the CINI Cybersecurity National Lab.
The selection for TeamItaly will consider the results of the local competition held on May 29th 2024, trying to balance the demonstrated skills in the various challenge categories and considering the two age categories defined by ECSC 2024.
Official selection event for TeamItaly 2024
On saturday, June 15th 2024, the official selection for TeamItaly 2024 will take place. It is a Jeopardy CTF lasting 24 hours, that will cover all the categories between cryptography, binary exploitation, reverse engineering, web security, forensics e miscellaneous. The participation is open to everyone, but only those in the correct age range will be able to compete for a place in TeamItaly 2024.
At the end of the competition, a general leaderboard will be generated, as well as specific leaderboards for each category or groups of cateogories, i.e. leaderboards generated considering only the challenges related to one ore more specific categories. In particular, the next phase will be accessible to at most 6 people for each of the following leaderboards:
- general leaderboard
- cryptography
- binary exploitation
- reverse engineering
- web security
- forensics and miscellaneous
The top 6 people from each leaderboard will be selected in order to guarantee at least 3 junior players.
In case one player will be present in more than one leaderboard (ex. general leaderboard and "cryptography" leaderboard), the trainer will be able to choose whether to move up the rankings or not.