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Capture The Flag Events
Purpose-built CTFs that train your engineers on the systems they actually defend.
Generic CTF platforms teach generic skills. An engineer who has solved a textbook SQL injection has not necessarily learned anything about the application they maintain. These events are built against environments that mirror your stack, so what people learn transfers to the systems they are responsible for on Monday.
How this works
Built to your stack
Challenges are constructed around the technologies you actually run: your language, your framework, your cloud provider, your identity model. The vulnerabilities are the classes that appear in code like yours, which is what makes the exercise transfer rather than entertain.
Solvable by design
Every challenge is verified end to end before the event, so nobody spends an afternoon on something that does not work. Difficulty is banded so that the least experienced participant makes progress and the most experienced does not run out, which is the difference between a team event and a leaderboard for two people.
Debrief as the payload
The competition is the hook and the walkthrough is the point. Each challenge is worked through afterwards with the class of bug named, where it appears in real code, and what the fix looks like in your stack specifically.
What we look for
- Which vulnerability classes your engineers recognise on sight and which they walk past
- Whether defensive and development staff reason about the same system differently
- Where tooling knowledge is thin, as distinct from concept knowledge
- Which parts of your own architecture the team cannot explain under time pressure
What you get
- An environment built around your stack rather than a generic platform
- Challenges verified solvable before anyone sits down
- A facilitated walkthrough of every challenge afterwards
- The environment left with you, so it can be reused for onboarding
What this does not include
- Assessment of individuals: results are not a performance review and are not reported that way
- A certification or formal qualification
- Testing of your production systems, which is a different engagement entirely
Questions people ask
- Do participants need security experience?
- No. The difficulty banding exists so developers, operations staff and security engineers can all take part usefully. The easiest challenges assume no prior offensive experience.
- How is this better than an off-the-shelf platform?
- Off-the-shelf platforms are excellent and considerably cheaper, and if the goal is general skill-building they are the right answer. This is for when the goal is your team understanding attacks against your architecture, which a generic platform cannot teach because it has never seen it.
- Can we keep the environment?
- Yes. It is built to be handed over and re-run, which is where most of the long-term value is: new engineers can work through it during onboarding.