HANDS-ON WORK IN AN ENVIRONMENT WITH HUNDREDS OF HOSTS IS A SCALE NO UNIVERSITY LAB CAN MATCH.

Yaroslav Shmelev, hummelchen
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TRIGGERING CRITICAL EVENTS ON REPLICAS OF REAL-WORLD SYSTEMS? YOU WON'T LEARN THAT IN A COURSE OR AT UNIVERSITY. IT'S NOT EVERY DAY YOU SEE WIND TURBINES SPIN OUT OF CONTROL OR A POWER PLANT FAIL.

Viktor Zvarykin, VeeZy
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STANDOFF HAS ALWAYS STOOD OUT AS A SIMULATION OF A REAL SECURITY ASSESSMENT, NOT JUST A CTF. FOR US AS PRACTITIONERS, THAT IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST ADVANTAGES.

Olzhas Satiev
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РАБОТА В ИНФРЕ ИЗ СОТЕН РАЗНЫХ ХОСТОВ — ТАКОГО МАСШТАБА НЕ МОЖЕТ ДОСТИГНУТЬ НИ ОДНА ВУЗОВСКАЯ ЛАБОРАТОРИЯ

Ярослав Шмелев, hummelchen
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РЕАЛИЗАЦИЯ КРИТИЧЕСКИХ СОБЫТИЙ НА КОПИЯХ РЕАЛЬНЫХ СИСТЕМ? ТАКОМУ НЕ НАУЧАТ НА КУРСАХ ИЛИ В УНИВЕРЕ. НЕ КАЖДЫЙ ДЕНЬ ВИДИШЬ, КАК ВЕТРЯНЫЕ МЕЛЬНИЦЫ НАЧИНАЮТ КРУТИТЬСЯ С СУМАСШЕДШЕЙ СКОРОСТЬЮ ИЛИ КАК ВЫХОДИТ ИЗ СТРОЯ ЭЛЕКТРОСТАНЦИЯ

Виктор Зварыкин, VeeZy
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STANDOFF ВСЕГДА СЛАВИЛСЯ ТЕМ, ЧТО ЭТО ИМИТАЦИЯ РЕАЛЬНОГО АУДИТА, А НЕ ПРОСТО CTF. ДЛЯ НАС КАК ДЛЯ ПРАКТИКОВ ЭТО БЫЛО ОДНИМ ИЗ ГЛАВНЫХ ПРЕИМУЩЕСТВ

Олжас Сатиев
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Let's go
This is what Standoff stands for.
Here's how we got here
The Standoff cyberbattle is born, exactly as we know it today: with replicas of real corporate software and systems, all connected within a virtual state.
That’s at least 30 hours of fully immersive hacking. On top of that, Standoff isn’t a sprint. It’s more of a marathon that starts long before the main event: preparation, training, planning, and studying new rules and scenarios for each segment.
Even though this was only the second cyberbattle, the pressure was already so intense that one team had to pray to the gods of GSM networks. We don’t know what actually worked, but that team ended up winning.
In 2017, unexpectedly even for ourselves (and probably for all the other participants), we took first place. That win helped us make a name for ourselves in the CIS market.
While Moscow was preparing to welcome millions of fans for the 2018 World Cup, we spent those hot May days building the infrastructure for the Standoff 3 cyberbattle. If you ask the participants, Standoff was just as intense as the soccer championship.
Annual competitions… In 2018, it was a dream come true in terms of recognition, both self-recognition and recognition from others.
Petr Zuzanov
There are teams that want to compete right there on the live event floor. Not sit in some storage closet at work, as if it’s just another ordinary day, only defending a different network. They want the announcer shouting over the speakers, spotlights sweeping in all directions, and kill chains displayed on the big screen.
Egor Petrenko
Mentor
A landmark year for Standoff. The cyberbattle not only took place twice, it also happened outside Russia for the first time. And not just anywhere, but under the blazing sun in Abu Dhabi 🏝️☀️
For us, Standoff became one of our first serious competitions. Think of it like a marathon for runners: you spend an entire year leveling up, pentesting, and learning new things to get ready for those four days.
While the whole world was fighting Covid, we were figuring out how to help our community build skills while in self-isolation 🍹😎 That is how the Standoff online cyberrange was born. It’s a platform for unlimited hands-on practice in security research using replicas of real-world IT and OT systems.
I have become better at understanding attackers, and that helps a lot with threat analysis and detection.
According to the Codeby team, which by that time had secured a top spot and has not given it up for years, the infrastructure in 2021 became so complex that participants repeatedly got lost and jumped from one attack vector to another.
To keep the team entertained, we once deployed a local Minecraft server with Log4Shell, where the red team played in their free time when they weren’t hacking.
In this memorable year, we officially launched Standoff Bug Bounty, a platform where Russian businesses can discover their vulnerabilities without risk by working with ethical hackers, and where bug hunters can win big without ever leaving home.
Standoff Bug Bounty is your chance to test your skills on real corporate infrastructure and help make security stronger.
We decided that one cyberbattle was no longer enough for our community, so we organized an entire week of hacking events. What is more, due to venue restrictions (no internet connection), we held the competition offline. This meant that during Standoff 12, the red teams had to build out their own infrastructures on the local network.
Companies around the world started facing breaches supercharged by AI, and simple vulnerability scanning was no longer enough.
That is how the first cyber stress testing programs appeared on the Standoff Bug Bounty platform. These are challenges where security researchers can show how a non-tolerable event (an incident with unacceptable business impact) could be carried out, and receive a very, very generous reward for doing so.
Our community reached 20,000+ practitioners, and we knew it was time to give them something new. That’s when we launched…
The Standoff Hackbase cyberrange lets you practice specific scenarios, tactics, and techniques, study new tooling, and try out fresh C2 infrastructure.
Since not a week goes by without some major breach, we launched Standoff Cyberdrills for security teams, so that every SOC knows how ready it really is for cyberattacks (and not just in theory).

And here we are…
Experience the evolution of Standoff in person
June 16–19
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