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SWD Awards and Final Ceremony

The SWD competition will strengthen students’ technical skills in engineering, coding, and testing web applications. The competition intends to foster a positive, ethical, and responsible culture about vulnerability notifications management. Accordingly, the SWD competition will seek nominations for teams that distinguished themselves for exceptional behaviors and adherence to the highest standards.

Teams are invited to nominate teams who distinguished themselves for excellence anonymously. Self-nominations are also possible.

Ceremony

Winners will receive their awards in a ceremony that will take place at the end of the SWD competition.

Awards

1. Award for the Best Builder Team

It is awarded to the team(s) with the highest builder score.

2. Award for the Best Breaker Team

It is awarded to the team(s) with the highest breaker score.

3. Award for the True Incorruptible Breakers

It is awarded to the team that distinguished themselves for the excellent quality of the report and being driven by an exceptional sense of respect and responsibility in disclosing vulnerable behaviors.

A single report is not likely to warrant the prize. The nominee must show consistent patterns throughout the competition.

  • Jury: Lecturers and Assistants

4. Award for the Most Innovative Vulnerability

It was awarded to the team that discovered the most technically sophisticated vulnerability or exploitation.

  • Jury: Students will cast their vote during the award ceremony
  • Pre-selection Committee: Lecturers and Assistants (needed if the number of nominees is high)

5. Award for the Most Epic Easter Egg

It is awarded to the team that placed the most epic easter egg in their program.

  • Jury: Students will cast their vote during the award ceremony
  • Pre-selection Committee: Lecturers and Assistants (needed if the number of nominees is high)

Nominations

We will provide a form to submit nominations. Nominations must include:

  • The award
  • The team or the reporter being nominated
  • One paragraph briefly justifying why the nominee must win