Internal competitions and drills for security teams
Run private internal CTFs and secure-coding rounds for developers yourself, or have our team run a red vs blue attack-defense day or a SOC simulation for you. Challenges are built on your stack, and skill reports show where to train next.
Training records show attendance, not incident skill
A completion certificate records that someone watched a video. A hands-on exercise shows you who can find the bug, triage the alert and write the report under time pressure.
"We don't know our real skill gaps"
Post-event analytics break results down by category and challenge, so you see that the team is strong on web but weak on cloud IAM, with data behind it.
"Generic labs don't match our stack"
Our challenge developers build scenarios around the technologies you run, so the lessons transfer on Monday morning. Prefer a ready-made content library? Tell us on the event planning form.
"It can't be public"
Internal events are private and invite-only. Only the people you invite can register, see challenges or view the scoreboard.
Assess, train, then measure again
Run training in three stages. Each stage leaves you with evidence a security leader can show upward.
Measure where the team really is
Start with a private jeopardy CTF across the categories your team works in, or a Raw Ops round for pentest and VAPT staff, where findings are filed as reports, triaged and scored with CVSS 4.0.
Evidence: solve rates by category and challenge, plus report quality for Raw Ops rounds.
Train the gaps the data shows
Assign learning seats and private labs to the weakest categories with the Pro or Enterprise organization plan, using curriculum management. Then run a drill that puts the skill under pressure: attack-defense for mixed teams, SOC simulation for analysts.
Evidence: learner certificates for completed training, and the drill results.
Show the change, with numbers
Re-run a comparable event and put the two post-event analytics reports side by side: solve trends, category and challenge performance, leaderboard insights and report quality. A line such as "cloud IAM moved from our weakest category to mid-table" is something a CISO can take to the board.
Evidence: a before-and-after comparison for your quarterly review.
Report trends, not grades. A competition result is a training signal, not a certification. Present team-level movement between events to leadership, keep individual scores for coaching, and compare like with like: the same categories at a similar difficulty. Want to see what the report looks like? Request a sample post-event report.
Security team training formats
Pick one format for a focused drill, or chain them into a full-day cyber exercise.
Attack-defense drills
Teams attack each other's copies of the same services while defending their own, so offense, patching and incident response get practiced in one session. Our team builds the services and runs the game infrastructure; we quote each drill after a scoping call.
SOC simulation
Alert triage, log analysis and incident reports in a simulated shift, built for analysts rather than exploit developers. Our team writes the scenario and runs it; quoted per drill.
Secure-coding CTF for developers
Jeopardy challenges built on vulnerable versions of your own patterns: injection, broken access control, secrets in code. Mapped to the OWASP Top 10.
Raw Ops pentest simulation
No flags. Your testers investigate a realistic target and file reports scored with CVSS 4.0 after triage, just like an internal VAPT engagement.
King of the Hill
Gain control of a machine, patch it and hold it. A closer for an offsite or security week, run by our team.
What enterprise security teams get
The CTF7 team sets up Premium events for you, with managed containers, advanced anti-cheat analytics and a dedicated technical contact.
All featuresPrivate events
Invite-only registration, so challenges and results stay inside your organization.
Custom challenges on your stack
Designed, built and tested by CTF7's challenge development team.
Skill gap reports
Solve trends by category, leaderboard insights and report quality for Raw Ops rounds.
Dynamic flags & logs
Flags unique to each team (each player in solo events), full submission logs, and IP and browser signals.
Your brand, your domain
Company branding, custom pages and, on Premium, a custom domain with managed SSL.
Seats for continuous training
The Pro and Enterprise organization plans add learning seats, private labs and curriculum management between drills.
Get a sample post-event skill report
Before you commit to a drill, see what your leadership will receive afterward. Leave your email and we'll send a sample report. Answer three optional questions and we'll add a short note on how we'd assess your team.
- Solve trends across the event, by category and by challenge.
- Leaderboard insights for teams and individuals.
- Report quality for Raw Ops rounds, with findings scored using CVSS 4.0.
- Where to invest next: the categories that need training before the next drill.
Rather talk to a person?
Tell us about your team on the event planning form, or email [email protected]. A CTF7 team member will scope the format, challenges and report with you. Other ways to reach us are on the contact page.
A quarterly cyber drill program
One way to turn a one-off internal CTF into a repeatable security team training program.
Baseline: a jeopardy CTF for everyone
Security, platform and application engineers play the same event. Category results give you the first skill map of the team.
Targeted training between drills
Assign learning seats and private labs for the weakest categories using the Pro or Enterprise organization plan.
Red vs blue attack-defense day
Split the team, replicate a slice of your network, and let offense and defense learn from each other in real time.
SOC simulation for analysts
A shift's worth of alerts, logs and incident reports, scored on accuracy and quality of write-up.
Review and repeat
Compare analytics against the baseline, adjust training, and plan the next quarter's drill.
Cyber drills for banking, financial services and insurance teams
Banks, NBFCs, insurers and fintech companies defend payment flows, customer portals and partner APIs, where a single logic flaw can move money. A private CTF lets those teams practice on realistic replicas of that kind of system, never on production.
- Secure-coding CTFs on financial patterns. Custom challenges modeled on the APIs, authentication flows and transaction logic your developers build, including broken object-level authorization and business-logic bugs that scanners miss.
- Raw Ops rounds that mirror an internal VAPT. Testers investigate a realistic target and file reports that are triaged and scored with CVSS 4.0.
- SOC simulation for analysts, run by our team as a managed event: alert triage, log analysis and incident reports.
- Private, invite-only events. Only the people you invite can see challenges and results. Data-handling questions are answered in the data handling section.
What we don't claim. CTF7 events are training and assessment exercises. We don't claim that running one meets any regulator's or auditor's requirement. If your compliance team needs specific evidence, share the requirement during scoping and we'll tell you plainly what the event's submission logs and analytics can and can't show.
What your security reviewer will ask
A short statement of how participant data and sign-in work, so the questionnaire does not stall the drill.
- Data handling. Private events are invite-only: only the people you invite can see challenges and results. How we collect, store and use personal data is set out in the privacy policy, and the security page describes how the platform is run. Send any further questions with your scoping request.
- Single sign-on. SSO (SAML) is not offered today. Participants sign in with email and password, or with Google, GitHub or Apple, and can protect their account with two-factor authentication.
- Your people, your event. You decide who is invited and who gets organizer access. Results and participant lists stay in your organizer account.
Hire security engineers on the same platform
The platform you use for drills also runs the hiring process: job postings, screening questions, pipelines, interviews, scorecards and offers sit in the Pro and Enterprise organization plans, and a CTF round can be the assessment step.
Still screening with multiple-choice tests? Read MCQ vs live labs for cybersecurity hiring, or write to [email protected].
Plans for security teams
Drills run as Premium events, scoped and quoted per event. Training between drills runs on the Pro and Enterprise organization plans. Every price is on the pricing page.
Premium event hosting
For internal drills, hiring programs and multi-day exercises
- Setup and challenge hosting by our team
- Managed container deployment
- Advanced anti-cheat analytics & logs
- Custom domain, branded certificates & custom integrations
- Dedicated technical support
Planning your first internal CTF
Six decisions to make before your first internal exercise. Settle them early and the format, challenges and schedule follow from them.
Read the full hosting guide- Define the outcome. Awareness for developers, a skill baseline for the security team, or a red vs blue stress test? Each needs a different format.
- Pick the audience mix. Mixed teams of developers and security engineers learn more from each other than siloed ones.
- Agree on what's in scope. Decide which parts of your real stack challenges may mirror, and what must stay out.
- Make it safe to fail. Share team-level results with leadership and keep individual scores for coaching, so people play honestly.
- Block the calendar. A half-day during working hours signals the exercise matters and gets far higher turnout than an evening event.
- Plan the debrief. Walk through solutions and share the category analytics within a week, while the lessons are fresh.
Scope a security drill for your team
Tell us the team size, the format you have in mind and any data-handling rules your security reviewers need to see. We reply with a plan and a quote.
