On November 29, 2024, the first Franco-Brazilian CTF (Capture The Flag) dedicated to artificial intelligence applied to cybersecurity brought together students from the University of Lorraine and the computer science department of the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil .
This unique event took place on the Airbus professional cyber range, a new component of the TELECOM Nancy cybersecurity training platform inaugurated in March 2024. A real technological asset, this infrastructure makes it possible to recreate realistic and immersive digital environments for practice cybersecurity.
Congratulations to all participants and congratulations to the best Franco-Brazilian team in this challenge: Rafel Alvarenga (BR), Maxime Dijoux (FR), Thiago Alves Do Carmo (BR) and Jimmy Habre (FR), You have all brilliantly met the challenges of this first edition!
A transatlantic collaboration rich in learning
Distributed between Villers-lès-Nancy and Belo Horizonte, the mixed teams worked remotely, in English, to overcome IT security issues. This bilocalized organization required a certain adaptability, combining technical skills with intercultural collaboration. Participants had to learn to coordinate their efforts in real time, despite the time difference and language barrier, to meet the proposed challenges. This experience notably allowed students in the new cybersecurity apprenticeship course at TELECOM Nancy, set up in partnership with the UIMM and ITII Lorraine, to test their ability to work in a globalized environment, where mastery of technologies and soft skills is essential.
When innovation and culture intertwine
This first Franco-Brazilian CTF stood out for its resolutely innovative character from both a technical and thematic point of view. At the forefront of current technologies, he has integrated artificial intelligence into cybersecurity challenges, an area still emerging in Capture The Flag type competitions.
| French site (TELECOM Nancy cybersecurity rooms) |
Brazilian site (UFMG cybersecurity rooms) |
It is part of a broader academic and technological collaboration between the Federal University of Minas Gerais and the University of Lorraine, both in research and teaching. Michele Nogueira, cybersecurity manager at UFMG, gave a seminar this summer on data science applied to cybersecurity. The contents of the CTF were initially designed and developed last year as part of a research initiation and discovery project led by Thibaut LERUEZ and Arthur GOMEZ, under the direction of Rémi Badonnel, within the RESIST team from Loria / Inria Nancy Grand Est. This CTF even had a trilocalized dimension, because a member of the organization, an engineering student at TELECOM Nancy, was connected from Canada, where he is currently carrying out his international mobility within the École de Technologie Supérieure de Montréal.
