The history of the Indonesian "hackers" team winning the Cyber ​​SEA Games 2018

KOMPAS.com – The Indonesian team won the "Cyber ​​SEA Games 201" Cybersecurity Championship in Southeast Asia on Friday (11/23/2018).

Indonesia is represented by 23-year-old Aufar Gilbran, 23-year-old Muhamad Visat Sutarno, 18-year-old Usman Abdul Halim and 24-year-old Fariskhi Vidyan, who will compete for tickets to continue Japan Seccon's 2018 title .

The president of the Indonesian team, Muhammad Visat Sutarno, usually called Visat, revealed that he was feeling anguish before the competition.

"When I got involved in the 2018 SEA Games Cyber, I was excited about the name of Indonesia," said Visat during a contact. Kompas.com on Tuesday (27/11/2018).

At the Cyber ​​SEA Games 2017 Championship, Visat also joined the Indonesian team with Aufar, Jason Jeremy Iman (22) and Fariskhi Vidyan.

Fariskhi Vidyan is one of the team members currently working as Security Engineer in Singapore.

According to Visat, before attending the Cyber ​​SEA Games 2018 event, he and his friends prepared themselves by following the Capture The Flag (CTF) training. online.

"In preparation, we joined the formation of the CTF online. Our team lives in different countries, so luckily, it can online from each place of residence, "said alumni of the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB).

Usually, the training is done every weekend.

"Exercise usually the weekend every Sunday But if you are busy, you can once a month This team was also formed a year ago. So, yesterday's preparations concerned only routine training, there was no special preparation, "said Visat.

During practice, the Indonesian team conducted a fairly intensive training and needed a full day of practice.

For practice, they usually do it challenge related to security systems.

Impressive moment where Cyber ​​SEA Games

In the Cyber ​​SEA Games 2018 Championship, the game was very lively.

"One hour before the end of the contest, dashboard frozen, so we do not know the points of the opponent. Before being frozen, our team was at the top, but after that we did not add any points, "said Visat.

According to Visat, the committee imposed a freezing system dashboard so that the winner can be announced in a surprising way.

The Indonesian team must defeat 9 rival countries, namely Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, the Philippines and Laos.

The Cyber ​​SEA Games 2018 championship applies a scoring system different from the 32 questions asked.

Each team must compete to multiply the scores in order to become a champion and fight for tickets to the Japan Seccon 2018 event to be held in Tokyo, Japan.

Visat considers that the Thai and Vietnamese teams are formidable opponents.

"The toughest opponents in Thailand, Vietnam, have a slim score, Thailand has 2,880 and Vietnam 2,830," said Visat.

Visat hopes that the Indonesian team will be better in Japan Seccon this year.

"Hopefully our team will be better at Japan Seccon than last year, and hope that Indonesia will once again be better known to the world, especially in the field of cybersecurity," said Visat.