Security Sift

Intro This year’s challenge was quite…well…challenging. Unfortunately Andrij, Will, and I were not able to repeat last year’s win and had to settle for second place. Frankly, at one point we weren’t sure we were going to finish at all, so we’ll take it! Read on to see our approach to finding the clues and solving the puzzle – and all of the frustrating missteps along the way. Day 0…

Intro Each year the Verizon RISK Team releases its highly anticipated Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) — download this year’s report here.  For some of us, equally as exciting as the content of the report is the DBIR Cover Challenge — a multi-stage puzzle that requires participants to follow obscure (and often hilarious) clues, testing their critical thinking and problem solving skills along the way. Following two consecutive fourth place…