Dubai Electronic Security Center (DESC), has entered into a strategic partnership with Comae Technologies to deliver OPCDE, the first of its kind cyber security event in the Middle-East. The exclusive cyber security conference will take place on April 26-27th, 2017 at the futuristic Dubai Future Accelerator Space, in the Emirates Towers.
This conference brings together security researchers and professionals from the public and private sectors with current pioneering computer security experts and specialists for two days of in-depth discussions and presentations on the latest advancement on the state of art of cyber security.
OPCDE is purely a technical meeting with more than 20 highly distinguished international speakers presenting their research from, leading companies such as Intel, Fastly, Comae, ISC2, FIRST, Mandiant/FireEye, Veracode, NSS Labs, Trend Micro (Zero Days Initiative), root9B, and much more.
Parallel to this event on 27th April, a one day cyber-security competition titled “The UAE National Cyber Security Capture The Flag!” will also be held. This event which is co-organized by Comae & CyberTalents, will help participants demonstrate their technical ability at 1776 space. UAE National Cyber Security CTF winners are eligible to compete in regional and international CTFs representing UAE. The CTF will be a Jeopardy Style CTF where every team will have a list of challenges in different categories such as Reverse Engineering, Web Security, Digital Forensics, Network Security and others. For every problem solved, the team will get a certain amount of points depending on the difficulty of the challenge. The team which gets the highest score at the end of the day will be the winning team. The teams will not only be recognized as the UAE top national security talents but they will also be awarded by one of the two winning sponsored cash prizes $5000 USD by Dell Secureworks and $2000 USD rising star cash prize by noon.