The first science show "I Am a Geek" ignited a geek boom

Recently, the country's first safety geek challenge program "I am a geek" produced by KEEN and hosted by GeekPwn was officially launched. The competition brings together the world's top security geeks, gathers cutting-edge technologies such as AI and intelligent hardware, and starts an intelligent security outpost battle by rehearsing security threats.

Jiang Changjian, the host of the strongest brain, Wang Yuheng, the "Eye of The Ghost Talent", Pan Xiaoting, the nine-ball diva, Wang Qi, the top white hat hacker "Big Bullfrog", Yu Yang, the "TK Sect Leader", and the audience in front of the screen witnessed the collision of geeks' whimsical ideas and intelligent hardware, and unveiled the invincible security loopholes in smart life.

As the co-sponsor of the GeekPwn International Security Geek Competition, Tencent Security has been committed to tapping security technology talents, accumulating cutting-edge security technologies, exploring potential security issues in industrial intelligence and consumer intelligence, and helping the industry grow healthily.

At the same time, Tencent Security is also a deep participant in GeekPwn's cutting-edge technology research and practical applications, from Tencent Security and GeekPwn holding the first new infrastructure security competition, to Tencent Security Xuanwu Lab's first public demonstration of "residual reuse" vulnerability attack, to Tencent Security Cloud Ding Lab and Jik Rod jointly holding the world's first cloud security challenge, Tencent Security has been working with global geeks to continuously conduct forward-looking security research and explore cutting-edge security technologies.

The pole stage shows the geek style, and the offensive and defensive battles guard intelligent security

With the theme of "Make Intelligence Safer, Make Security Smarter", the country's first security challenge program "I Am a Geek", showed the audience the overlooked security vulnerabilities in the intelligent era with great impact. Home intelligent gateway "transformation" monitoring, defective Bluetooth headsets were implanted with tracking codes, food delivery robots were remotely hijacked, insulin pumps were injected remotely with 10 times the dose... One brain-burning and stimulating network security offensive and defensive battle has given the audience a new understanding of the network security industry.

In this year's event, while there is no limit to the competition, the offline event will be moved to the screen to provide a broader stage for the players to show the geek style. Among the contestants, there are many young geeks and female players. Two ten-year-old teenage geeks used their extracurricular time to overcome the problem of children's smartwatch loss and retrieval, and remotely obtained the "Scavenger" facial photo and replaced SIM card. Wu Xingru, a girl who fights alone, cracks the defect of the smart set-top box, remotely sneaks the TV screen, and warns the manufacturer to pay attention to security loopholes. There is also a senior female student Liu Xinyu and the team to develop a lightweight anti-candid device to protect the privacy and safety of the public. They all injected fresh energy into this year's geek competition.

Since its inception in 2014, GeekPwn has been successfully held in Beijing, Shanghai, Macau, Hong Kong, Silicon Valley, Las Vegas and other places, excavating thousands of top security talents, responsibly disclosing hundreds of high-risk vulnerabilities, helping manufacturers to repair security problems, and avoiding information leakage and property losses for users.

For seven years, GeekPwn has built a platform to deliver high-level security talent to society. In the "Hainan Free Trade Port High-level Talent Classification Standard" issued in September 2020, GeekPwn has also become one of the "professional and social recognition standards for the Internet and telecommunications industry". This means that GeekPwn winners, if successfully identified as talents in the category of this clause, can receive the corresponding preferential policy support and service guarantee treatment, further recognizing the value of GeekPwn.

There is a long way to go in the cultivation of network security talents, and Tencent Security continues to explore talent training models

The essence of network security lies in the confrontation between people at both ends of the attack and defense, so cultivating high-quality talents in network security is crucial to improving the "immunity" of cyberspace. According to statistics, China's current demand for network security talents is expected to exceed 1.4 million, but the number of network security education talents training is less than 15,000 per year. The domestic network security industry is facing a serious imbalance between supply and demand of talents, an extreme lack of authoritative talent training, and an insufficient talent training system.

Tencent Security has been exploring the model of network security talent mining and training, and has created future leaders in the field of Internet security through events and projects such as the GeekPwn Geek Competition, the TCTF Tencent Information Security Championship, and the Western Cloud Security Talent Program. Among them, TCTF has accumulated more than 10,000 participants in the past five years, continued to train instead of competitions, deepened the integration of industry, education and research, and strived to create a "double first-class" network security talent training platform for events and talent training. At the "Western Cloud Security" Summit, Tencent released the "Western Cloud Security Excellence Program" with the training mode of "cutting-edge technology exploration + actual combat attack and defense simulation" to promote school-enterprise cooperation and industry-education integration.

Under the wave of industrial Internet upgrading, Tencent Security hopes to continue to accelerate the cultivation and training of network security talents through the "race instead of training" model, promote network security talents to become the key guarantee of network security, and help protect industrial security.

Source: Guangming Network