Battle Fortress - June 2021

As of 6/12/2021 the Battle Fortress - June 2021 badge is no longer being actively awarded.

Battle Fortress is a defensive exercise in which blue teams have to defend an operating IT environment from a cyberattack. The event allows participants to detect, respond and contain targeted cyberattacks while minimizing system downtime in a simulated range environment. This event is co-hosted by RangeForce and the NYU Tandon Cyber Fellows program.

Through pre-event training and participation in the live event, participants built familiarity with:
- How script kiddies and other threat actors execute defacement attacks.
- How poor security posture can result in ransomware and how to correctly identify remediation.
- How threat actors can use stealthy attacks to siphon out sensitive files and password hashes.

After completion of the event, participants have an:
- Understanding of how to respond to defacement attacks, and how to identify correct ways to escalate to appropriate teams.
- Understanding of how poor security hygiene on external facing sites can be leveraged by threat actors.
- Understanding of what a Ransomware deployment looks like in an enterprise environment and how to hunt for files that have been encrypted by malicious activity.
- Understanding of how to identify data exfiltration, to triage compromised accounts for password reset, and identify when a file share is vulnerable.



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