Capture The Flag: Your First CTF

Most people never try a Capture The Flag because they assume you have to already know how to hack. That's backward. A CTF is how you learn.

Wednesday night we go live on our own CTF platform — challenges running on Cover6 infrastructure, a live scoreboard, and real flags you'll capture during the session. Not a talk about CTFs. An actual one, built by us, running on our own gear.

🎯 What We'll Cover
- What a CTF actually is — how scoring works and why employers run them as interviews
- The categories: web recon, network forensics, OSINT, and a live SIEM investigation in Splunk
- Live walkthrough — capturing your first flags on a real target, start to finish
- Where to look first, and what to do when you're stuck

The challenges stay online after the stream. If Wednesday doesn't work, you can still play.

This is Module 15 of our free Intro to Cyber series — you don't need the previous 14 to follow along. Every category you'll see Wednesday maps to something we teach, and the courses are free: https://cover6solutions.com/courses/

🔗 Stay connected:
- Cover6 Solutions: https://www.cover6solutions.com
- YouTube (live streams + replays): https://www.youtube.com/@Cover6Solutions
- Courses and certification prep: https://cover6solutions.com/courses/

🎤 Submit a talk/demo: https://www.papercall.io/cover6community

🤝 Want your brand in front of 9,900+ cybersecurity professionals? Sponsorship packages are available — info@cover6solutions.com

Rep the community → https://www.cover6solutions.com/product/cover6-shield-unisex-t-shirt/
Grab a Cover6 Shield tee and show up repping the community that helped get you here.