Competitions

Watch the best of the best

Take your seat to watch the world’s best hackers take on live challenges!
The 3-day Pro CTF competition will see 25 teams battle it out for $100,000.
The AI Challenge will pit the best problem solvers for two $50k prizes.
Top bug hunters will attack targets for a total bounty of $1.5 million in Driven2Pwn.
At the Cyber Battle of the Emirates finals, you’ll also get to see the next gen cyber warriors as the best and brightest students from the UAE battle it after polishing their skills at an August training bootcamp.
Also be sure to hear researchers present their ideas for smart city cybersecurity in a bid to win funding of up to $1.5 million.

Oct 15
Oct 16
Oct 17

Pro CTF

The world’s top CTF teams battle it out in a new style of attack and defense contest featuring a record-breaking prize pool of $100,000! We’re flying the world’s best CTF teams into Abu Dhabi to battle it out in a three-day attack and defense CTF competition organized by HITB in collaboration with Hackerdom, Russia’s leading CTF organizing crew.

Oct 13
Oct 14

Cyber Battle of the Emirates

CBOE aims to grow knowledge and nurture capabilities with a Capture the Flag competition for high school and university students for the best and brightest students from the UAE. The winners from this 2 day contest win a trip to HITB Amsterdam in 2020 and also have the chance to compete with the professional teams in the Pro CTF to be in the running to win $100,000!

Oct 15
Oct 16
Oct 17

Driven2Pwn

We’re bringing the best bug hunters and research hackers to one destination for the UAE’s first bug bounty bazaar. It's one event with many bounties exploiting a variety of targets with a range of cash pots in a combined $1.2 million pool.

Oct 15
Oct 16
Oct 17

AI Challenge

This is an exciting new challenge for Artificial Intelligence (AI). $100,00 in prize money will be awarded to winners who showcase the development of future cyber security tools using machine learning.

Oct 15
Oct 16
Oct 17

The Cyber Security Research Awards

Discover the brilliant ideas students and researchers have for protecting smart cities from cybersecurity threats. Shortlisted candidates will present their innovative and original research and technology proposals in a bid to win research funding of $1.5 miilion.

Unleash your hacking skills on the world

Why sit back and watch the pros when you can take part in cyber security challenges of your own? In Chip Off Village, there’s a race against time to hack into a mobile digital device, while the Capture the Signal will see you team up with other hackers to extract information from radio signals.

Oct 15
Oct 16
Oct 17

Standoff

Do you have what it takes to launch a cyber attack on a city? Or maybe even protect its technology from hackers? The Standoff is a battle between attackers trying to compromise the security of offices, power plants, railroads, banks and mobile services, while a defending team uses their skills to fend them off. Whoever gets the most points wins.

Oct 15
Oct 16
Oct 17

Capture the Signal

9am – 6pm

Team up with other radio signal hackers in this Capture The Flag contest, where you’ll need to reverse engineer increasingly complex radio signals to extract key information leading to the next signal. The more challenges you solve, the more points you gain, and the team with the highest points will be the champion.

Oct 15
Oct 16
Oct 17

Chip Off Village

9am - 6pm

Can you hack into a mobile digital device and take control of the data on it the fastest? Even if it’s your first hacking experience, get involved and our cyber experts will be on hand to show you how to remove an embedded eMMC chip from an Internet of Things device and re-solder it onto the small circuit board to gain access control.