How to create an awesome Hackday event
Hackday (not to be confused with ‘hackathon’ events) is a live event where a group or groups of hackers do security testing to some target (i.e. hack the target). Usually the target is a web application or for example some IoT device. The event may last from one day to a few days. It is common that the organizer will pay bounties for the security vulnerabilities reported by the participants. Organizer(s) can coax hackers to participate with some amazing swag, bounties or other prices that can be won in the event. Bigger the prices, the more hackers will want to join and more experienced hackers will be participating.
The usual flow of the event will be; registering of participants, informational meetup to all, hacking and reporting of vulnerabilities, end meetup and some networking at the end.
This document aims to guide organizers to create and amazing hacking event so everyone participating will have amazing time! Organizer will get the target tested for vulnerabilities and will get good PR from the event.