Ctf Factory, Inc

Our core mission is to support the community, providing education and hands-on training to all, for free, in venues such as the BSides community and beyond with our Pros vs Joes Capture the Flag event. Capture the Flag (CTF) Training and Experimentation A Dynamic, Real-World-Focused Simulation We design, build, and host CTF games for cyber security conferences and public, private, and charitable organizations, providing experience in defensive and offensive cyber security. Our mission is simple: Provide training that is free to participants, primarily through events like BSides, and release under Open Source and Development Licenses for other groups to do the same. Our hosted game dynamics are modeled after many years of actual game play and real world situations involving advanced adversary activity. Originally loosely based on the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (CCDC), we strive to continue to develop our simulation to improve the experience and realism so players learn while keeping the game fun and exciting from beginning to end. CTF Factory was formed from the small group of cyber security professionals who run Pros vs Joes (PvJ) CTF and has been running competitions since 2012. It remains intertwined with that group, supporting all of their events. It has executed events at BSides Las Vegas, BSides DC, BSides Delaware, BsidesIndy, BSides Salt Lake, Hack West, Infosecworld, and other private games in various venues. CTF Factory was incorporated as a charitable, non-profit 501(c)(3) company to give-back to the Infosec communities. Our key hope is to build and maintain infrastructure and expertise for BSides and other events. We want to support these efforts with individual donation programs, challenge coins and other swag, as well as donations and support from sponsors.