Silver CTF Medal for FAU Security Team in 2021
In the global rankings of academic “Capture the Flag” information security competitions, the team of FAU (FAUST) finished second place for the year 2021 in Germany. Capture the Flag competitions are a common and popular way to acquire the common practical information security skills in cryptography, reverse engineering and binary analysis. The only German team that scored more points in 2021 than FAUST was RedRocket of Hochschule Rhein-Sieg. Following FAUST in the ranking are the well-known teams ENOFLAG (TU Berlin) and Saarsec (Saarland University).