Several teams from Kyiv Polytechnic University were among the leaders in the All-Ukrainian women's CTF competition SHE DEFENDS: CYBER & OSINT. The tournament aims to develop women's practical skills in cybersecurity and OSINT and to strengthen the cyber resilience of the national security and defense sector.
About 150 participants in 25 teams — from universities, government agencies, law enforcement agencies, and the IT sector of Ukraine — solved tasks that were as close as possible to real-life cyber threat scenarios: attack analysis, vulnerability search, data processing, and OSINT.
🔥 Congratulations to our winners:
🥇1st place
Team “dcc” — Educational and Scientific Institute of Physics and Technology (Institute of FTI), dcua-school club
🥈 2nd place
Team “milworms” — Institute of Special Communications and Information Protection (İSZZİ)
Also took first place among the participants in the offline format of the competition. Mentor — Olga Shevchuk, lecturer at the Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Technologies in Cybersecurity.
IV place
ISZZI team, Department of Cyber Protection and Special Communications Security
The victories of our teams once again confirmed the systematic level of cybersecurity training at KPI and the university's contribution to the formation of the personnel reserve of the national cyber defense system.
💚 Girls, respect! We are proud of you.
Photo — National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine