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CryptoKait is excited to announce that WiCyS has partnered with NCL to present the first official WiCyS CTF! Challenges will be social, immersive, and focused on WiCyS, women of historical significance, and female-oriented fun. There will be prizes (apart from the automatic perks of skill- and résumé-enhancement!), but seating is limited. Find out how you can get involved!
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NCL is making registration easier than ever! For a single registration fee, you now get a season pass to all the Games. CryptoKait explains what that means, and top competitors will want to watch their email. 😉 P.S. Swag Shop!
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Switching from solo competition to working as a team is not always easy (Leeroy Jenkins, anyone?). CryptoKait shares how she has handled the transition, both as a competitor and as a coach, and analyzes the team styles she's seen in action.
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Coaches must choose between prioritizing one of two goals: Winning or Growth. Both have their benefits and their shortcomings. CryptoKait explains how to assess and assemble the right NCL teams for your environment.
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CryptoKait disambiguates the terms, "coach" and "team," and answers the question, "How many coaches can I have?" for each varying interpretation.
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Want to start your very own NCL team at your college or university? CryptoKait shows you how with these take-home materials from her workshop at the 2018 WiCyS conference. In case you missed it, the first part was recorded, and CryptoKait's NCL Coaching Guide is the ultimate standalone resource!
Two months away from giving her first IT workshop at the 2018 WiCyS conference in Chicago, CryptoKait is feeling elated, excited, empowered, terrified, inadequate, and nauseous. Why did she do this to herself? Read to learn why CryptoKait recommends NCL so highly that she's about to lead a workshop on it!
Folks might say that taking a cruise on Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) changed their life. Those people probably haven't tried National Cyber League (NCL) yet. 😉 If you'd like to know more about the National Cyber League, page one of the Google search results for "NCL" won't help much. This is where the CryptoKait blog comes in!
Before there was NCL... there was a little girl playing interactive Nancy Drew games, quietly practicing cryptography without even realizing it was a cyber skill.(*) Now that she's grown, and with a handle like CryptoKait, you know this is one introduction to cryptography that you shouldn't miss!
[Taisa here. Boy-howdy, taking a few minutes to read this would have saved me hours in NCL!]
This was the behind-the-scenes, CTF101 workshop that CryptoKait had been looking forward to all week! Her friend and fellow attendee, Lizzie Molloy, took these notes on how to approach CTF challenges, with a focus on cryptography, networks, web apps, and binaries, but the underlying problem-solving strategies are universal.
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