Back in December, I mentioned that the winners of the Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center (
DC3)
Forensic Challenge were
announced. They listed the top teams by affiliation; my team received the highest score for civilian teams. The DC3 recently updated their results, listing the top ten teams:
- First place went to Access Data, a commercial outfit.
- Second place went to the 0x28 Thieves from the University of South Florida.
- Third and Forth places went to The Professionals and HoyaHaxa. Although their affiliations are not specified, they are either commerial or academic (since neither received the highest score in other categories).
- My team, Hacker Factor, came in fifth. That's not bad considering it was 95% me, 5% Paul, and my effort was mainly devoted to a book, a conference, and full-time contract work. (I maybe put in 40 hours total for the contest -- half of which went toward documentation, and Paul put in much less.)
The remaining teams in the Top 10 (SRS, CodeMonkeys, Nucia, and DFAT; Backbone Security and Pirate tied for 10th place) are all commercial, academic, or civilian.
I am actually surprised to see that the highest scoring Government and Military teams did not rank in the Top 10. (Wow! I beat all of the Government and Military teams!) Assuming that the team names actually match their organizations, then I also beat out
SRS (commercial, government contractors), the Nebraska University Consortium for Information Assurance (
NUCIA), and
Backbone Security -- a commercial security organization.
What does this tell me? First, the challenges were hard. I suspect that many of the Top 10 scores were very close, and the teams in the Top 20 were probably within a few points of each other. Second, I gloat. And finally, next year I plan to devote more time to the challenges and aim for one of the top three spots. Maybe I'll even expand my team so it includes more than just me and Paul.
