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.
During the inaugural year, MITRE will offer a trial run of the program, where teams of professionals will join student teams in the Attack Phase, attacking real designs on real hardware.
There is no cost to participate in the trial run of the PROLeague, however additional supplementary training may also be available from a training partner for an additional fee. There will be an opportunity to state your interest in the supplementary training during team registration.
Space in the 2025 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?
During the trail run in 2025, the 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.
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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