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Cybersecurity training has become a crucial part of computer science education and industrial onboarding. Capture the Flag (CTF) competitions have emerged as a valuable, gamified approach for developing and refining the skills of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Yuwei Yang , Skyler Grandel , Daniel Balasubramanian , Yu Huang , Kevin Leach

Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) are critical to defending enterprise and industrial control environments, yet evaluating their effectiveness under realistic conditions remains an open challenge. Existing benchmarks rely on synthetic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Manuel Kern , Dominik Steffan , Felix Schuster , Florian Skopik , Max Landauer , David Allison , Simon Freudenthaler , Edgar Weippl

Capture The Flag (CTF) challenges are puzzles related to computer security scenarios. With the advent of large language models (LLMs), more and more CTF participants are using LLMs to understand and solve the challenges. However, so far no…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Minghao Shao , Boyuan Chen , Sofija Jancheska , Brendan Dolan-Gavitt , Siddharth Garg , Ramesh Karri , Muhammad Shafique

Capture the Flag (CTF) competitions represent a powerful experiential learning approach within cybersecurity education, blending diverse concepts into interactive challenges. However, the short duration (typically 24-48 hours) and ephemeral…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Pratham Gupta , Aditya Gabani , Connor Nelson , Yan Shoshitaishvili

Understanding how cognitive biases influence adversarial decision-making is essential for developing effective cyber defenses. Capture-the-Flag (CTF) competitions provide an ecologically valid testbed to study attacker behavior at scale,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Carolina Carreira , Anu Aggarwal , Alejandro Cuevas , Maria José Ferreira , Hanan Hibshi , Cleotilde Gonzalez

Team collaboration among individuals with diverse sets of expertise and skills is essential for solving complex problems. As part of an interdisciplinary effort, we studied the effects of Capture the Flag (CTF) game, a popular and engaging…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Sang-Yoon Chang , Kay Yoon , Simeon Wuthier , Kelei Zhang

This article examines the integration of IT competitions, in particular Capture The Flag, into an information systems management course to fill skills gaps, particularly in the field of cybersecurity. An educational CTF team has been set up…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Yann Goetgheluck , Sarah Mernit , Julie Pereira

Intrusion detection system (IDS) is one of extensively used techniques in a network topology to safeguard the integrity and availability of sensitive assets in the protected systems. Although many supervised and unsupervised learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-03 Yuyang Zhou , Guang Cheng , Shanqing Jiang , Mian Dai

In this work, we consider challenges relating to security for Industrial Control Systems (ICS) in the context of ICS security education and research targeted both to academia and industry. We propose to address those challenges through…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-02-13 Daniele Antonioli , Hamid Reza Ghaeini , Sridhar Adepu , Martín Ochoa , Nils Ole Tippenhauer

Internet has played a vital role in this modern world, the possibilities and opportunities offered are limitless. Despite all the hype, Internet services are liable to intrusion attack that could tamper the confidentiality and integrity of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-06-23 M. A. Faizal , M. Mohd Zaki , S. Shahrin , Y. Robiah , S. Siti Rahayu , B. Nazrulazhar

According to a recent survey with more than 4000 software developers, less than half of developers can spot security holes. As a result, software products present a low-security quality expressed by vulnerabilities that can be exploited by…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-01-07 Tiago Espinha Gasiba , Ulrike Lechner , Maria Pinto-Albuquerque , Alae Zouitni

Capture-the-Flag (CTF) competitions are increasingly becoming a testbed for evaluating AI capabilities at solving security tasks, due to the controlled environments and objective success criteria. Existing evaluations have focused on how…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Tingxuan Tang , Nicolas Janis , Kalyn Asher Montague , Kevin Eykholt , Dhilung Kirat , Youngja Park , Jiyong Jang , Adwait Nadkarni , Yue Xiao

In this paper, we present CTF Pilot, a GitOps-based framework for the deployment and management of Capture The Flag (CTF) competitions. By leveraging Git repositories as the single source of truth for challenge definitions and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Mikkel Bengtson Albrechtsen , Jacopo Mauro , Torben Worm

Large Language Models (LLMs) are being deployed across various domains today. However, their capacity to solve Capture the Flag (CTF) challenges in cybersecurity has not been thoroughly evaluated. To address this, we develop a novel method…

Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) are key components for securing critical infrastructures, capable of detecting malicious activities on networks or hosts. The procedure of implementing a IDS for Internet of Things (IoT) networks is not…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Luca Arnaboldi , Charles Morisset

Intrusion detection systems (IDS) are essential for protecting computer systems and networks against a wide range of cyber threats that continue to evolve over time. IDS are commonly categorized into two main types, each with its own…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Messaouda Boutassetta , Amina Makhlouf , Newfel Messaoudi , Abdelmadjid Benmachiche , Ines Boutabia

Intrusion Detection System (IDS) is one of the security measures being used as an additional defence mechanism to prevent the security breaches on web. It has been well known methodology for detecting network-based attacks but still…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Nancy Agarwal , Syed Zeeshan Hussain

Today, many organizations are moving their computing services towards the Cloud. This makes their computer processing available much more conveniently to users. However, it also brings new security threats and challenges about safety and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-03-16 Hassen Mohammed Alsafi , Wafaa Mustafa Abduallah , Al-Sakib Khan Pathan

Capture-the-Flag (CTF) competitions serve as gateways into offensive cybersecurity, yet they often present steep barriers for novices due to complex toolchains and opaque workflows. Recently, agentic AI frameworks for cybersecurity promise…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Cathrin Schachner , Jasmin Wachter

Closed-loop control systems employ continuous sensing and actuation to maintain controlled variables within preset bounds and achieve the desired system output. Intentional disturbances in the system, such as in the case of cyberattacks,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-21 Vuk Lesi , Marcio Juliato , Shabbir Ahmed , Christopher Gutierrez , Qian Wang , Manoj Sastry
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