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[RERELEASE] What is the SANS Holiday Hack Challenge
Description
In this holiday edition of the Exploring Information Security podcast, Ed Skoudis joins me to discuss the SANS Holiday Hack Challenge.
Around this time each year the SANS Holiday Hack Challenge releases under the direction of Ed (@edskoudis) and instructor with the SANS institute. This year Santa has been kidnapped and it’s up to use to figure out who did it and save Christmas. The challenge is for new people in infosec, and for those who have been in the industry for many years. As Ed notes in the episode it is even for children. The challenge itself has been around for years and several past years are still available for people to go through.
In this episode we discuss:
What is the SANS Holiday Hack Challenge
How it got started
What preparation goes into making the challenge each year
Who can participate
United States
