Kickstart your cyber security career by engaging in a new, beginner-friendly exercise every day leading up to Christmas!
Tackle interactive tasks across various areas of cyber– from hacking actual machines to defending digital realms. Unravel a thrilling story and gather evidence to foil McGreedy‘s dastardly plans!
WHAT IS ADVENT OF CYBER?
Advent of Cyber is your festive gateway into cyber security. Each day leading up to Christmas, we'll be releasing a super fun, beginner-friendly exercise designed to ease you into the realm of cyber security. For 24 days, we'll be breaking down common cyber security topics into byte-size walkthroughs and challenges, following an engaging storyline where you'll need to help us save Christmas!
Each task is accompanied by supportive resources and a guided video tutorial, ensuring you're never left out in the cold!
And with over $50,000 worth of prizes up for grabs, you have a great chance of winning big!
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
Unwrap a new beginner-friendly task each day this December, set within a festive Christmas tale! Every challenge comes with insightful articles and videos to help you on your way.
Topics covered
Penetration Testing, Security Operations and Security Engineering, Digital Forensics and Incident Response, Machine Learning, & Malware Analysis
Prizes
Total prize pool value: $50,020!
Certificate
Complete every task in the event and earn a certificate of completion! Make sure your name is set in your profile settings.
The Advent of Cyber tasks will remain open until November 2024, so you have plenty of time to earn your certificate should you not complete all the tasks right away.
Event Details
Starting Date: Friday 1st, December 2023
Task Release Time: daily at 4 pm GMT
How to enter
Register an account on TryHackMe.
Click here to join the room!
Wait for the first task to be released (Dec 1st)
The Story
All exercises in Advent of Cyber follow a fun Christmas story. This year, McSkidy supports the acquisition of Best Festival Company's biggest competitor. Security challenges are all but assured with the merger ongoing, and insider threats are lurking in the shadows!
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