Student Infosec Team

Meet when?

Meetings are held weekly in CSE 116, which is located in the back of the computer lab in the bottom floor of the CISE building.

Wiki

Team members can use the team wiki. It also has instructions for the chat channel.

I do solemnly swear...

The Ethics Agreement for all SIT members has been posted. Please read it as you'll need to sign it to participate.

Called what?

It's been called the "hacking team", the "capture the flag team" and lots of other things, but it doesn't really have a name yet, so we'll start with Student Infosec Team. The UF IT Security Team is sponsoring the group (that may turn into its own student-group if folks are interested) and John Sawyer is the Security Team member assisting with the planning and instruction.

We're hoping to build our student security team for a couple of reasons:

• We're all about the learn'n -- Who says professors get to have all the fun teaching? Students and staff should be actively involved in education too.
• The more security on campus the better -- SIT students will probaby help other students on campus (if you're at all the computer geek we're expecting) as well as work in departments part-time, or even graduating and staying at the university. The better educated you are for those roles, the better UF's security posture is.
• We're selfish -- As staff members, we can't compete in some educational competitions without a team of students.

Do what?

That said, what exactly will the Student Infosec Team be doing? Well, there's a couple of CTF type competitions we're interested in participating in, and there's lots more that we can participate in if folks want. Of course, before we can compete, we'll need to prepare. We're planning on a combined lecture/lab type approach to the weekly training sessions on topics that will probably resemble the following:

• Network Protocols and Abuse (ip,tcp,udp,icmp,arp,local network maliciousness, network reconnaisance)
• Network Monitoring (following the previous talk)
• Reverse Engineering
• Foresnics
• Binary Exploit Writing
• Webby-sploits
• Cryptography
• Network Security Tools
• Bluejacking and other wireless fun

Who for?

While it's called the Student Infosec Team, and it's primarily for students, non-students may apply to participate as well.