PenQuest premiered as education tool in a full-day IT security workshop held at Das Fokus N’Cyan in St. Jakob. Participants from several companies, including the Red Cross, tackled a ransomware scenario and developed strategies for both attack and defense. The actions were then discussed and spiced up with examples, seamlessly integrating PenQuest into an established …
We’re happy to welcome Simon Gmeiner to the team. As a data science student at St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, he will work on our AI implementation, beginning with a simple bot and moving up to reinforcement learning.
The team held a PenQuest workshop at LSZ’s Security and Risk Management Congress in Loipersdorf. The event took place onApril 26th and 27th and hosted participants from different companies and institutions. We showcased the latest version of the game and had the chance to talk to security experts from across the field.
We are happy to announce that Thomas and Maximilian have joined the PenQuest team. Thomas is a senior software developer who specializes in front-end development. He will be key in developing new features and improving the overall code. Max is visual designer who will focus on refreshing our current look and feel to be more …
This year’s ITsecX at St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences followed the motto “Security Risk Economics: The Value of (Missing) Security” and again welcomed security experts, alumni, and interested techies to an evening of lively IT security exchange. We offered participants the chance to play the current alpha of PenQuest and received invaluable feedback and …
The team was invited to hold a seminar at Uni Luxemburg and engage in an interesting exchange with the local game theory experts. Future collaboration and possible applications of PenQuest to the domain of physical border security was discussed.
The team was happy to present PenQuest at this year’s think tank webinar series at the Austrian Computer Society. There was a lively discussion and we were able to win new testers for our cyber defense game!
Our project has garnered the attention of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s ALFA group, which specializes in Machine learning, evolutionary algorithms, and data science for knowledge mining, prediction, analytics, and optimization. With projects in cyber security and software analysis, the model behind PenQuest was of particular interest to the researchers. The experts at ALFA expressed …