A team of security experts from NYU Tandon School of Engineering competes with participating universities using a red team/blue team approach to mimic real-world attacks. Contestants must exploit the weaknesses of a target system, assess the effectiveness of their hardware security techniques, identify vulnerabilities and implement effective defense mechanisms.

ESC is an educational, research-oriented tournament aimed at hacking into the hardware of embedded systems. In fact, it's the oldest hardware security competition in the world. Finalists compete at CSAW on-site at our four international locations (NYU Tandon, NYUAD, Grenoble INP-Esisar, and IITK).

All competition details and instructions regarding the submission process can be found on the ESC's Github repository, accessible via the "Click here" button (top right).