Machine vs. Machine: Inside DARPA’s Fully Automated CTF

As you may know, DEF CON 24 is hosting the finals of the DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge - a CTF played by fully autonomous systems, developed over two years for that specific purpose. Attack, Defense, complex gameplay all without human intervention. The team whose creation dominates this all-metal Thunderdome walks away with $2,000,000.

This #defconflashbackfriday is a presentation by Mike Walker from DARPA and Jordan Weins from Vector35 all about the CGC, the tech that's being created for it and what it means for securing the IoT we're all connected to.


Bonus: There's a cool reveal in the final few minutes about an additional contest where the winner of the machine vs. machine battle might stick around for a little more CTF action, Humans against Toasters style.