Kaizen Singapore CTF - My first CTF experience
Today I attended a CTF organized by Div0, Booz Allen Hamilton, and ICE71 , based on Kaizen CTF platform of Booz Allen Hamilton. According to Booz Allen Hamilton, they had done similar events throughout the world using this platform. I got to know about this event through Div0's meetup page ( https://www.meetup.com/div-zero/events/255394149 /). Although I had heard about CTFs and was interested in participating CTFs for a quite some time, this was the first CTF I felt comfortable enough to attend. Main reasons were, it was a single player CTF and organizers had specially mentioned that this was a beginner friendly CTF which can be an ice breaker of CTFs. As I did not know any other colleagues who were interested and had security skills to form a CTF team, I was not able to attend CTFs which expect teams. As I learned, there are two types of CTFs. One type is attacker-defender type CTFs, and the other type is jeopardy style CTFs. The CTF organized by Kaizen was a jeopardy style