With the objective of enablement and empowerment of cyber security, Cyber Peace Foundation (CPF) and Policy Perspectives Foundation (PPF) in collaboration with Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeiTY) and National Critical Information Infrastructure Protection Center (NCIIPC), are organizing the Global Cyber Challenge at the Global Conference on Cyber Space (GCCS), 2017.

Challenge Details
Global Cyber Challenge 1: Innovate Hackathon to build ideas and technological solutions based on identified themes.

National Cyber Challenge 2: Capture the Flag event to test participants’ ethical hacking, forensics and IT Security skills.

The Hackathon or Innovate Cyber Challenge will be based on different problem statements to which participants will render an effective solution in the form of an app/project. The Capture the Flag event on the other hand will require the participants to first qualify an eligibility test in the form of a quiz and then take up practical technical tasks spread across different domains of IT/OT Security like bug hunting, secure coding, network implementation and forensics etc.

Problem Statements
1. Protection of Navigation Technology Infrastructure
2. Mitigating Public Sector Cyber Cascades
3. Security of Internet of Things
4. Security of CII and Digital Payments
5. Customer Empowerment for Digital Banking Security
6. Technology as a Resolve to Cyber Risks to Child
7. Driving Innovation to Monitor Online Sexual Abuse Against Children
8. Honeypots
9. Fake News
10. Security of Women Online
11. Integrated Recourse for Digital Fraud Victims
12. Mobile Security
13. Digital Awareness

Important Dates
• Registration Starts on: 5th October, 2017
• Last Date of Submission: 25th October, 2017

Awards
• Goodies, awards and certificates from a reputed personality
• Opportunity to attend Global Conference on Cyber Space- 2017 in New Delhi to meet the International and National personalities active in the Cyber world
• Travel and stay
• Internship with Government of India
• Chance to deploy the solutions at Civil Society Organizations working to address the social problems and also Government of India
• YourStory will do a story on the winners and the winning team
• Internet and Mobile Association of India will mentor the winning teams