Global Cyber Challenge – Shortlisted Entries for Grand Finale
With an aim to identify talent pools in the area of cyber security across the globe and to find solutions to critical problems, the Global Cyber Challenge was organised as part of the Global Conference on Cyber Space. It was conducted with the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), National Critical Information Infrastructure Protection Center (NCIIPC), MyGov, Cyber Peace Foundation (CPF) and Policy Perspectives Foundation (PPF) as collaborators.
The Global Cyber Challenge, which comprised of two flagship events called the Cyber Peace-a-Thon and Capture the Flag saw tremendous participation from across the globe.
In Peace-a-Thon thirteen different cyber world problems were provided and teams from across the globe proposed their solutions for the same. Teams were provided mentoring sessions at nine host institutions by the experts from the industry, academia and research before final submissions. Final submissions of all the teams were evaluated by the jury based on different parameters and below top 10 teams are invited for the Grand Finale Global Cyber Challenge on November 20-21, 2017, New Delhi.
Capture the Flag was organized under two categories Information Technology and Operational Technology. Participating teams were gone through two day online challenge on November 14 – 15 , 2017 and based on the ranking below top 5 teams from both the categories (IT and OT) are invited for the Grand Finale Global Cyber Challenge on November 20-21, 2017, New Delhi
The jury has finally declared following contestants to have qualified the preliminary round.
Global Cyber Challenge – Peace-a-Thon International Finalist
| S.No. | Name of Team | Team Leader Name | Country |
| 1 | Aggies | Bharadwaj Satchidanandan | USA |
| 2 | Carleton University | Himanish Kaushal | Canada |
| 3 | Astra | Ananda Krishna | France |
| 4 | Argentina | Ricardo Ferro Moerno | Argentina |
| 5 | UMD | Shashank Thupukari | USA |
Global Cyber Challenge – Peace-a-Thon National Finalist
| S. No. | Name of the Team | Team Leader Name |
| 1 | Flying Pigs | Binayak Krishna Swami |
| 2 | Blue Monks | Sayak Dhar |
| 3 | Team KC | KUNAL CHAUDHARY |
| 4 | DeepSafe | Dendi Sathya Veera Reddy |
| 5 | tr0ubl3sh00t3rz | Mohit kumar Rajain |
| 6 | Tech Wizards | Vineeta Garg |
| 7 | HoneyPotters | Viplav Sawant |
| 8 | HumanFirewall | Ankush Johar |
| 9 | We Match | Jaiteg Singh |
| 10 | CyGuard | Sachin Parekh |
Global Cyber Challenge – Capture the Flag (IT) International Finalist
| S. No. | Team Leader Name | Team Member 1 | Team Member 2 | Country |
| 1 | Sanat Sharma | aaditya purani | – | USA |
| 2 | Abderrahmane ABADA | OUAREZKI Yacine | Redouane NIBOUCHA | Algeria |
| 3 | Lachlan Ashcroft | Christopher Skorka
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Australia |
Global Cyber Challenge – Capture the Flag (IT) National Finalist
| S.No. | Team Leader Name | Team Member 1 | Team Member 2 |
| 1 | Yashit Maheshwary | Deepak Srivatsav | Anubhav Chaudhary |
| 2 | Palash Bansal | Aneesh Dogra | |
| 3 | Sathish Kumar | Surya Shankar | Gokul kannan |
| 4 | Swapnil | Aarush Ahuja | Punit Maurya |
| 5 | Nipun Jaiswal | Deepankar Arora | Harsh Daftary |
Global Cyber Challenge – Capture the Flag (OT) Finalist
| S.No. | Team Leader Name | Team Member 1 | Team Member 2 |
| 1 | Parasar Sikdar | ||
| 2 | Vijay Kumar | Tanoy Bose | Vignesh Durairaj |
| 3 | Swapnil | Aarush Ahuja | Punit Maurya |
| 4 | Prashanth | Swathi Budda | Dharshini Jayachandar |
| 5 | Mukul Kumar Lohar |
