Inspiration
While messing around with features in De Anza, we saw an opertunity to protect not only ourselves, but also the De Anza community at large. A real vulnerability leaving people exposed to email scams and their names open potentially open.
What it does
We made a face scanner that ties your student cwid to the face scan, adding a level of security that is unique to each person; their face
How we built it
Made a cwid script to scrape numbers from an official De Anza webpage through guess and check, and then realized a new layer of security was needed since cwid numbers were generated from a set seed and then usually just incremented by 1 for the next students number. We then made a face recognition system that would make the keys more secure, since the cwid is not a secure way to prove that someone is who they claim.
Challenges we ran into
Time issues were a big part, it was hard to code the face recognition system. Since each face is so unique, and camera quality plays a large role as well as face positioning, just getting the system to run smoothly posed a bit of a challenge.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Made the system, and found a genuine vulnerability in De Anza, within the given time frame.
What we learned
How to actually think like a cyber security employee and through the eyes of a culprit to fix the issue.
What's next for De Anza Cyber Guard
Work with De Anza to fix this issue and prevent future venerability.
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