Description: Teachers of Application Security in higher education institutions and universities are presented with some unique challenges, especially when compared to other scientific or even computer science fields. This is mainly because students have to learn how to design, implement and protect applications against both known and unknown attacks. Moreover, the so far established stereotypes present the potential intruders as being ingenious and able to penetrate almost every system.
The OWASP Hackademic Challenges Project introduces the "attacker's perspective" in higher education by implementing realistic scenarios with known vulnerabilities in a safe, controllable environment. Students can attempt to discover and exploit these vulnerabilities in order to learn important concepts of information security through the attacker's perspective. Its main difference from other projects that implement vulnerable applications for educational purposes, is that it is has been created mainly for use in a classroom environment, while most other solutions take a more self-learning approach.
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Konstantinos Papapanagiotou, Information Security and Risk Management Services Manager, SYNTAX IT Inc.
Dr Konstantinos Papapanagiotou has more than 10 years of experience in the field of Information Security both as a corporate consultant and as a researcher. Currently he is managing the team of security consultants at Syntax IT Inc, providing information security services to large organizations in Greece, Cyprus, Balkans and the Middle East. | | He has been involved with OWASP for several years now, leading the OWASP Greek Chapter and lately the Hackademic Challenges Project. He also organ…
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