CTFs
Jeopardy challenges across specialist categories, or Attack & Defense where teams protect and challenge live systems.
Make room for the challenge.
Arena brings people together around cybersecurity events, from hands-on CTFs to team exercises built around response and decision-making.
What is Arena?
Arena is the home for events PwnArena can organize. Capture the Flag competitions put technical skills to the test; cyberdrills and tabletop exercises bring teams together to practice how they respond and decide.
Different formats.
Different kinds of pressure.
Choose a competition built around challenges, a technical drill, or a discussion-led exercise. Each format creates a different way for a group to test what it knows.
Cyberdrills
Technical exercises for teams to work through a developing incident and coordinate their response.
Tabletop exercises
Scenario-led sessions that put roles, decisions, and communication under discussion before an incident becomes real.
Jeopardy CTFs
In a Jeopardy CTF, players choose from independent cybersecurity puzzles grouped by topic. A challenge might ask them to inspect a website, decode a message, or examine digital evidence. Solving one reveals a hidden answer, called a flag, which earns points. Players can then choose what to tackle next.
Reverse Engineering
Crypto
PWN
WEB
Misc
Forensics
Mobile
Hardware
OSINT
Attack & Defense
In an Attack & Defense CTF, each team has online services to protect, such as websites or apps. Other teams try to break into them while your team looks for weaknesses in theirs. You have to keep your services working and adapt as both sides find and fix new problems.
Cyberdrills
A cyberdrill is a practice run for a cyber incident. A team faces a realistic situation, investigates what is happening, and works through how to contain the problem and restore normal operations. It helps people rehearse their roles and coordination before a real emergency.
Tabletop exercises
A tabletop exercise is a guided discussion around a possible cyber incident. A team works through the situation step by step, deciding who acts, what to tell others, and how to respond as new information arrives. It lets people practice decisions and communication without operating live systems.
