Capture The Flag Winner

Issued by Divergence Academy

A member of the winning team who gets bragging rights for demonstrating research skills and applied cyber security techniques related to ethical hacking during a live, Divergence Academy-hosted Capture the Flag challenge. Earners of this badge worked as a team to solve multiple puzzles with outside the box thinking in a high stress environment while applying penetration testing techniques to discover and exploit a system's vulnerabilities.

Type Experience
Level Foundational

Additional Details

Skills

Exploit Creation: Binary and Webapp Exploits
Forensics
Linux Commands
Subnetting
TCP/IP
Toolkits: Creation and Preparation
Vulnerability Discovery

Earning Criteria

Participate in a live Capture The Flag competition and be on the winning team.

Standards

NICE Framework

The NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework is the foundation for increasing the size and capability of the U.S. cybersecurity workforce. It provides a common definition of cybersecurity, a comprehensive list of cybersecurity tasks, and the knowledge, skills, and abilities required to perform those tasks.