Trail of Bits Releases Capture the Flag Field Guide

Summary: Trail of Bits released the CTF Field Guide on May 20, 2014, a free self-guided online course to help high school and university students build skills for Capture the Flag competitions, which test exploit creation, vulnerability discovery, and forensics. The guide draws on Dan Guido's Penetration Testing and Vulnerability Analysis course at NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering, material Trail of Bits developed with DARPA to train military academy students, and reference material from security researchers, and is hosted on GitHub as a collaborative, updatable GitBook.
What you should know: The guide targets a specific gap: few high schools and colleges have the resources or expertise to mentor students or form CTF teams, even as events like DEF CON's CTF and NYU Engineering's CSAW CTF attract tens of thousands of entrants and the High School CTF drew more than 1,000 competitors. That leaves the pipeline of offensive-security talent dependent on free, self-directed material rather than institutional programs.

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