Women in Security: Building a Female InfoSec Community in Korea, Japan, and Taiwan
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Three regional female InfoSec communities show concrete results: Korea’s Power of XX runs 80+ teams in qualifiers with 6–8 finalists since 2011, invites international finalists and mentors and moves winners into mixed CTFs; Japan’s CTF for GIRLS runs 13 workshops reaching 700+ women, supplies a preconfigured VM and beginner-to-advanced challenges and uses the NICT visualization system Amaterasu Zero for live scoring; Taiwan’s HITCON GIRLS builds study groups, hosts HITCON with 1,000 attendees and its own women-only CTF and publishes videos and slides.
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chapters (19)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:15Background [2/2]
- 4:50Introduction of Poxx [2/3]
- 8:45Overcome [2/4]
- 12:00Impacts
- 13:26Future Plans [2/2]
- 16:39Why CTF for GIRLS?
- 17:42Activities of CTF for GIRLS
- 18:52Contents of CTF Workshop
- 19:56CTF Workshop (Statistics)
- 20:56CTF Workshop (TIPS)
- 22:04Women-only CTF GHOST IN THE SHELL CTI
- 23:19CTF Visualization System
- 24:39Networking Female [2/2]
- 26:38Building Sustainable Community (1/2)
- 30:16HITCON GIRLS Purposes
- 31:28About HITCON GIRLS
- 39:22Our Accomplishments
- 41:50Takeaways
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