FAQ

1. What is the motivation of this hackathon and what are areas of compettion?

    Cloud infrastructure provides the environment and resources necessary to run large language models (LLMs). Security concerns have arisen regarding the application of LLMs, particularly when integrating external tools and APIs. The AI Security Guide for CISOs identifies key areas for enhancing AI safety, including:

    • Model-based attacks,
    • Data Security Breaches,
    • AI Supply Chain Attacks,
    • DoS Attacks on AI,
    • Social Engineering Attacks.

    This hackathon will focus on addressing the cyber security concern for adopting LLMs.

    2. Who is eligible and how to organise a team to compete?

    University full-time students, include undergraduates, postgraduates and PhD candidates are welcome to participate the hackathon. Each group comprises 4 members from the same university, this can be any combination of students’ level. Registration starts from 19th August 2024, and will be closed at 19th 31st October 2024.

    Note that

    • This hackathon is a face-to-face event, will be held at Melbourne Australia, Saigon South and Hanoi Vietnam between 8th and 10th November 2024.
    • The sponsors will provide catering during the 3 days event.
    • You need to organise travel and accommodation by yourselves to one of the three venues.

    3. What is the platform for the hackathon, and what skills are required to compete?

    This hackathon uses Kaggle platform, prepared by SkywardAI https://github.com/SkywardAI/ and sponsored by AWS. You can register a GitHub account to access the platform.

    Participants can check the discussion forum, read relevant articles to familiar yourself with the open source platform and code implementations.

    4. How the winner teams will be rewarded?

    This hackathon not only provides you with project experience and knowledge of combining two hot areas of GenAI and cyber security. The top team will be rewarded a voucher of total A$2000, and the second and third ranking teams will be provided a voucher of A$1000 and A$800.

    Beyond the above rewarding, you will have a good opportunity to: