Peace-a-Thon
The Peace-a-Thon challenge is open to all citizens from all countries, and participants irrespective of age, profession or education background.
- The participants will be required to develop a working solution against any of the problem statements provided.
- Participants will be provided with problem statements on
- DNS Abuse
- Secure Telecommunication
- Secure Automation of Automobiles (Cars, Bikes, Aerial Vehicles, UAV)
- Fighting Child Sexual Abuse Materials (CSAM)
- E-waste Management
Target Audience: Students, Researchers, and Professionals across the Globe.
Competition Phases
Registration
During the registration phase, participants need to register and provide details about themselves along with the proposed solution against the problem statement. Participants need to submit a detailed idea of the proposed solution along with a prototype either in PDF or PPT format.
Elimination
Top 10 teams will be selected for the Grand Finale based on the responses received.
Grand Finale
During the Grand Finale of this track, a 36-hour window will be provided and the teams will be creating a working solution against the ideas submitted in the elimination round. Codes for evaluation to be submitted on either GITHUB or GITLAB. 15 minutes will be provided to each team during the jury round. Based on the remarks received from the jury and points earned, top three teams will be selected as winners of this track.
Problem Statements
Objective: To provide a secure DNS Infrastructure to the community and monitor the real time DNS based threats.
The Domain Name System (DNS) is like a phonebook of the entire internet. Each time a human wants to open a website using a domain name like www.cyberpeace.org, the browser interacts with internet protocol and DNS translates that domain name to its respective IP address so that web browsers can load the web pages.
A standard DNS query that is required for most of the web traffic, creates opportunities for exploitation of DNS like DNS hijacking, Man in the middle attack, DNS cache poisoning, DNS Tunneling etc.
Proposed work: A solution is expected to deploy Public DNS infrastructure across the World with anycast routing, keeping the security first priority in mind to mitigate the DNS threats and DNS based malicious activities. Some key feature should be addressed–
- DNSSEC enabled — DNSSEC is a powerful protocol that protects the client from quack sites.
- Blocks the sites that are believed to be created for malicious or phishing purposes.
- Minimizes the leakage of excessive information about the DNS query.
- Support the anycast routing that mitigates the DoS attacks on DNS.
- Reduces the Round trip delay to maximize the DNS performance.
- An SIEM enabled feature to monitor the real time threats that a DNS infrastructure faces.
Online Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) is a serious problem that is growing exponentially. CSAM is defined as any image or video that depicts a child being sexually abused. This includes material that is traded online between abusers, as well as material that is created by abusers. The production, distribution, and possession of CSAM is a serious crime. The online environment has made it much easier for offenders to produce, distribute and access it.
While the vast majority of people who view CSAM do not go on to commit hands-on child sexual abuse, there is a growing body of evidence that emphasize viewing this material, can lead to harmful behaviours and attitudes. The recent rise in the number of cases of online Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) can be devastating. It is therefore essential that the problem needs to be addressed to prevent CSAM from being created and distributed.
Hey fellow Innovators! What technological solutions can be implemented to stop the flow of these materials and identify the perpetrators whilst ensuring that appropriate action is taken to locate and identify child victims?
Develop an innovative solution to create networks and applications to set up secured telecommunication. A Secure telecommunication network is the need of the hour, with issues like data breach and impersonation many people have fallen victims to phishing scams. The participants are expected to create a dummy spectrum with new technologies and create various other security and surveillance related issues to safeguard the telecommunication.
The participants need to create a framework of cyber security of cars from various attacks and vulnerabilities. The automobile sector is not limited to 4 wheelers only, penetration tests of POC should be shared along with the safeguard for the same. Automation and software oriented vulnerabilities need to be targeted and safeguarded.
Environmental aspect
Objective - Create an Innovative solution to tackle the issue of E-waste.
Problem statement- 1
The world has been riding the wave of automation which has been facilitated by the growth of IoT devices. The manufacturing of these devices is heavily dependent upon the silicon chips.
Due to the global shortage of Silicon chips, all major nations have increased their mining activities, thus causing an issue of top soil erosion which is resulting in damage to crops and loss of agrarian land.
Problem statement - 2
The shortage of silicon chips has led to a slow down of manufacturing of gadgets and accumulation of massive e-waste dumps.
The manufacturing giants and indigenous players need to create an equilibrium for the market in order to sustain manufacturing of electronic devices.