This year's CTF continues the simulation of a small engineering company working primarily in industrial automation. Modern cyber attack methodology combines a number of different skills, and in many cases criminal gangs have people specializing in areas like developing a profile of the organization, reverse engineering the software that org may be using while others may have expertise breaking into wireless networks, attacking Microsoft Active Directory or web applications.
A great deal of effort has gone into creating many of the challenges but in some cases it may not be legal or safe to completely replicate a sophisticated attack entirely.
Some Guidelines:

• Do your recon and know your scope, some flag targets are on the internet, but make sure you know what you're attacking.
• There are may different software tools and techniques available, the choice is yours, all that matters is the correct answer.
• There are no denial of service flags, please do not intentionally try to crash a service, lock out accounts etc. If you do notice something stopped responding during your work please report it. Services do fall over, mistakes can be made with tools, if the action wasn't intentional everything is fine.
• The contest runs from 11 AM on day one of the conference to 15:30 on day two, prizes awarded at the conference closing
• The scoreboard and internet hosted targets will be available for the duration, systems only available from inside the conference such as the simulated company's wifi or direct connection to their internal network are limited to conference hours.