// CTF organizer training
Train the people
who run CTFs.
Learn to design quality challenges, operate the CYBERCOM platform, and run competitions that players actually respect. For college clubs, chapter leads, and aspiring event organizers.
// Curriculum
Every layer of running a serious CTF.
Challenge Design Fundamentals
What separates a fair challenge from an unfair one. Difficulty scaling, category balance, flag format, hints policy, and avoiding unintended solutions.
Platform Operations
Setting up an event on CYBERCOM infrastructure - loading challenges, configuring the scoreboard, managing participant access end to end.
Anti-Cheat Configuration
Understanding the anti-cheat engine: flag randomization, write-up lockdown policies, browser focus tracking, and disqualification procedures.
Rules of Engagement
Drafting an AUP that protects both organizers and participants. What is in scope, what is off-limits, and how to handle disputes.
Category-Specific Workshops
Deep dives into building web, binary, forensics, crypto, and OSINT challenges - with quality examples and common authoring mistakes to avoid.
Post-Event Analytics
Reading the CYBERCOM analytics dashboard: solve rates, difficulty distribution, player drop-off points, and how to improve the next event.
// Program steps
From applicant to certified organizer.
Apply & enrol
Submit your club or team for the organizer training program. We confirm a session date and send the onboarding kit.
Two-day intensive
Live workshops covering challenge design, platform operations, anti-cheat, and rules of engagement with the CYBERCOM team.
Practical submission
Submit an original challenge across categories. Reviewed against CYBERCOM's quality bar by our team.
Supervised practice event
Run a small-scale event on CYBERCOM infrastructure with direct feedback and monitoring from our engineers.
Certified organizer
Receive CYBERCOM Organizer Certification. You can now operate events independently on our platform.
// Who it's for
Built for serious organizers.
Club Leads & Student Organizers
Run events that players actually respect. Learn the platform, design quality challenges, and operate without needing CYBERCOM in the room on event day.
Apply for your clubChapter Members
Build the skills to represent your campus in CYBERCOM's national circuit and become the technical backbone of your local cybersecurity community.
Apply as a chapter memberFaculty & Event Managers
Train your student team to run consistent, fair, and well-documented institutional CTFs - independently and without ongoing vendor support.
Train your teamTrain your organizing team.
Applications open year-round. No prior event experience required - just the intent to run better CTFs.