Join us for a Boss of the SOC (BOTS), a blue-team capture the flag-esque competition hosted by Splunk and Information Technology at Purdue (ITaP). As a contestant, you will explore and investigate realistic event data in Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Enterprise Security.

During the competition, you'll practice your security skills and compete against peers for prizes and bragging rights. Players will be given a series of questions of varying type and difficulty and points are awarded for both accuracy and speed. Competitors will gain a stronger and more realistic understanding of their strengths regarding incident investigations. In addition, the results will highlight areas for training and education.

BOTS Requirements:

• General security experience
• Registration is required, no walk-ins due to space limitation
• Please register with an email that you will be able to access day of event
• Laptops will not be provided, you must bring a laptop computer equipped with Wi-Fi and running a modern web browser like Chrome (preferred), Firefox, or Safari. The day's events are highly dependent on access to the Internet. Though not required, it's never a bad idea to have the ability to tether your laptop to the Internet via your phone or other wireless device should some unforeseen problem with the event Wi-Fi come up
• To learn more about what to expect at a BOTS event, click here
• If you would like to brush up on your Splunk investigation skills, please see the Hunting with Splunk blog series

Dallon Cochran 703-889-9724 www.carahsoft.com/splunk