Month: July 2018

Endace at Blackhat USA, 2018

Original Entry by : Mark Evans

Blackhat USA, 2018Endace is headed to Black Hat USA 2018. Now in its 21st year, this leading information security event provides attendees with the very latest in research, development, trends and solution showcase. The first four days (August 4-7) includes intense training for security professionals of all levels followed by the two-day (August 8-9) main event including the Exhibitor Showcase, briefings, arsenal, and more.

This is event is one of our USA team’s favorite event of the year.  Security professionals from across the country—and across the globe—converge upon the Sands Convention Center in Las Vegas to learn about the latest tools and trends, and to really network and learn from their peers. Our conversations with attendees are always in-depth, meaningful and a learning experience for everyone involved.

Endace will once again be showcasing our EndaceProbe Analytics Platform at our booth located in the lobby area outside of the hall in location # L5. Over the last year, Endace announced partnerships with a number of leading vendors including BluVector, Cisco, Dynatrace, Idappcom and Plixer. By deploying these analytics solutions on the EndaceProbe Analytics Platform, customers can consolidate hardware to reduce cost and dramatically reduce the time required to install new analytics solutions.

Stop by our booth at L5 and visit with the team, we’ll be giving away great swag!

Endace Team Winners at Cyber Challenge

Original Entry by : Mark Evans

This year’s Cyber Challenge, run by the University of Waikato, attracted a wide range of participants from around the country with participants attending from schools and tertiary institutions as well as industry.

The youngest competitor was just twelve-years-old!

As a longtime sponsor of the event, Endace this year decided to enter three teams in the challenge.

Teams participated in a series of challenges, including capture-the-flag challenges and a drone challenge. Endace team, Team Dark Arts (consisting of Deepak Ramaprasad, Leo Liu and Dr. Andreas Löf) took line honours after Rounds 1 and 2, taking out the prize for the winning team for Rounds 1 and 2.

Team Dark Arts donated their prize to the runners-up after Rounds 1 and 2, Team Arcton (Jeremy Symon and Grady Hooker, another industry team). Which then graciously donated the prize to the third-placed team, Team Purple (James Donaldson and Tom Crisp), another industry team.

However overall glory, and bragging rights for 2018, fell to Team Elliptic Curveballs (Jacob Cheatley, Michael Jang and Logan Krippner – all University of Waikato computer science students). Congratulations guys!

Associate Professor, Dr. Ryan Ko, Head of Cyber Security Lab and Director, New Zealand Institute for Security and Crime Science, said this year’s Cyber Challenge was the toughest yet.

“The standard of competitors keeps getting higher, but we’re also creating more challenging tasks. It speaks well for the future cybersecurity landscape, and the University of Waikato,” Dr. Ko said.

Congratulations to all the participants in this year’s Cyber Challenge, and our thanks to the team at the University of Waikato for hosting the event.

And to all the Endace participants, from all the teams: “well done, you did us proud!”