7th Critical Infrastructure Security Showdown (CISS)

iTrust SUTD conducted its annual signature OT cyber security exercise - the Critical Infrastructure Security Showdown (CISS) - for the 7th time this year with The Digital and Intelligence Service (DIS).

The exercise started on 17 Aug 23 with an opening ceremony hosted by iTrust Centre Director Jianying Zhou and Commander, Cyber Defence Group, DIS, COL Shengyang Tan.

CISS judges William Teo, Delaney Ng, Matthias Yeo, Rong Hwa Chong for contributing their expert knowledge and the army of green team members who worked tirelessly behind the scenes to support the entire exercise platform.

CISS 2023 is largest installment of ever, with a flurry of activities spread across 10 days, beginning with 41 international red teams besting each other in a 48-hour Stage 1 OT-style CTF and culminating in 11 red teams emerging as top teams for CISS Finals, where they vied for conquest of the crown jewels of CISS - iTrust's four interconnected industrial-grade critical infrastructures.

At the Awards and Closing Ceremony earlier today, we saw iTrust Founding Centre Director Prof Aditya Mathur shared key statistics of CISS, and COL Shengyang Tan announcing the top 3 red teams - Undecided (1), ADFCSA (2), and OPENEYES (3). Congratulations!

iTrust thanks the tremendous support from the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA) for funding this annual cyber exercise, the DIS for co-organsing it, the National Cybersecurity R&D Lab (NCL) for hosting Stage 1,