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ICL-KME CS Received Appreciation for RuCTF 2010 Sponsorship
Vladimir Tretiakov, RuCTF 2010 Chairman (III Russian National Interuniversity Information Security Contest) and President of the Ural State University, sent a thank-you letter to ICL-KME CS expressing sincere appreciation for providing sponsorship support to the contest which was held in Yekaterinburg on April 22—26. RuCTF 2010 was organized by the Ural State University n. a. A. M. Gorky, Information Security Association and the Russian Union of CIOs with participation of the Coordinating Council on Information Security Training in the Urals Federal District.
It is no coincidence that ICL-KME CS sponsored information security contest. ICL-KME CS ranks among top 10 IT companies in Russia engaged in information security business and pays much attention to prospective employees’ training. The company adopted a program to support whiz kids and creative young people. ICL-KME CS has been holding an open programming tournament for students and schoolchildren of the Republic of Tatarstan for ten years in a row. This year the number of participants in a selection round amounted to 211 teams from 18 regions of the Russian Federation. Thereupon the tournament was assigned a presidential status by RT President Rustam Minnikhanov.
Furthermore, ICL-KME CS experts collaborate with Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University and Kazan State Technical University n. a. Tupolev (KSTU) to provide dedicated training, help to develop academic curriculum, issue guidelines and tutorials. ICL-KME CS also hosts a branch of the KSTU Technical Cybernetics and Informatics Department where students follow individual academic curriculum. Every year 10 best students of IT Departments of Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University and KSTU are awarded ICL-KME CS scholarship.
RuCTF is the Russian national interuniversity information security contest. This is a team competition based on rules of a CTF game (Capture The Flag). At the beginning of the game the teams are provided with identical servers with preinstalled set of vulnerable services. The participants have to find vulnerabilities, eliminate them on their own server and use rival’s vulnerabilities to get their confidential information (flags). The Ural State University has been holding RuCTF since 2008. This year 15 teams from 9 Russian cities became finalists including two teams from Kazan — «Quinque» team from the Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University and «Vulnbugs» team from the KSTU.
