PROLeague
PROLeague
After 10 years of eCTF as a student-only competition, MITRE is now announcing the eCTF PROLeague! The PROLeague extends the tried-and-true eCTF student competition into a professional development experience.
After a successful trial in 2025, MITRE will offer a second year of the program, where teams of professionals will join student teams in the Attack Phase, attacking real designs on real hardware.
Registration for the 2026 eCTF PROLeague will open in early January
Space in the 2026 eCTF PROLeague is limited, so register early to secure your spot!
What Participants Get Out of the eCTF
Throughout the competition, participants have the opportunity to learn hard and soft skills not often taught in trainings.
During the Attack Phase, teams learn hands-on, real-world attacks in an unparalleled experience. Since the designs being attacked are created by student teams, participants search for and encounter real, unintended vulnerabilities, rather than pre-canned challenges that are often used in other CTFs. This affords teams an opportunity to go through the end-to-end vulnerability discovery and exploitation process in real time.
As the attacks are done on real hardware, teams will also have the opportunity to go beyond traditional software security and explore the world of embedded security, considering embedded and hardware-specific attacks including fault injection and side-channel analysis. With virtually all hardware attacks in-scope, teams can be as creative as they would like!
Who Can Participate?
The 2026 eCTF PROLeague will be open to teams from U.S.-based companies, organizations, and government institutions. Teams must be made up of at least three particpants, all of whom are U.S. citizens or legal permanent residents. Teams must state their organizational affiliation to MITRE during registration, but you may opt to keep that affiliation private and use a team name publicly during the competition.
If you do not meet those requirements, make sure to join the email list below in case the eligibility widens in future years!
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