Product updates, deployment patterns, and security research for CTF organizers - written for teams running programs at scale.
Capture The Flag turns cybersecurity into a hands-on game. This guide explains how CTF events work, what each challenge type looks like, and how beginners can start learning by doing.
Air-gapped networks exist for a reason. They protect classified information, sensitive operations, and critical infrastructure from external threats by physically isolating systems from the internet. Any tool introduc...
University cybersecurity courses have a workflow problem. The learning management system handles enrollment, grades, and assignments. The CTF platform handles challenges, scoring, and labs. Faculty sit in the middle, ...
Certifications tell you what a practitioner studied. They do not tell you what they can do when a live incident hits your network at two in the morning. The gap between knowledge and capability is the reason organizat...
Most cybersecurity training programs fail not because they pick the wrong platform or the wrong content, but because they skip the diagnostic step. They start with a solution — a platform subscription, a certification...
University cybersecurity labs need LMS integration, per-student isolation, multi-cohort management, and curriculum-aligned challenge chains. This guide compares platforms and outlines a semester-long lab program on Athena.
CTFd has been the default CTF platform for over a decade. It earned that position by being open-source, well-documented, and flexible enough to power everything from university club events to sponsored competitions. M...
Choosing a Capture The Flag platform used to mean picking CTFd and spending two weeks wiring up plugins. That was fine when CTF was a weekend hobby. It is not fine when your university runs graded labs for four hundre...
