Winners

• 1st Place:

  • Def con dans mison
  • GhidraGoons

• 2nd Place: N1t3_Tr@1n

• 3rd Place: Slept4Day

Stats

CTFd

• Users Registered
  • 195 (Friday August 9, 2024)
  • 262 (Saturday August 10, 2024)
• Teams Registered
  • 104 (Friday August 9, 2024)
  • 140 (Saturday August 10, 2024)
• Team Size Distribution
  • Team Size: 4
    • 10 Teams
    • 6 out of the Top 10 teams were a team of four
  • Team Size: 3
    • 14 Teams
    • Highest ranking team: AKATSUKI (6th place)
  • Team Size: 2
    • 24 Teams
    • Highest ranking team: dimasiados (9th place)
  • Team Size: 1
    • 70 Teams
    • Highest ranking team: Blue Team of Death aka w1nt3rmut3 (20th place, 28th for individual scoring)

Graylog

• Users by the end of conference: 73
• Reingested Logs: 2,263,490

Setup

• 4 Pod Stateful Set hosted in Kubernetes
• Connected to Okta SSO

Datadog

• Users by the end of conference: 78
• Logs generated during conference:
  • Thursday August 8, 2024: ~1.63M
  • Friday August 9, 2024: ~15.03M
  • Saturday August 10, 2024: ~7.78M

Splunk

• Was running as a singular EC2 instance which proved insufficient in the face of competitor enthusiasm

Multi-Juicer

• 101 teams created instances

Setup

• 30 Nodes (m5.xlarge) on Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
• 10 Juice Balancers (Load Balancers)
• Supports up to 300 instances with 30 nodes