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Security competition

MITRE's eCTF

University of Trento

Embedded security, in practice

The Embedded Capture the Flag (eCTF) is MITRE’s attack-and-defend competition for secure embedded systems. Teams design and implement a system against a shared set of requirements, then analyse and attack the other teams’ designs.

The competition brings together secure design, firmware development, hardware-aware security, and offensive testing in a semester-long challenge.

Results

YearChallengePlacement
2025Secure satellite-TV system13th
2026Secure storage for a chip foundry7th