A CTF is a competition where your goal is to find hidden flags by solving security challenges. Each challenge is a puzzle. Find the vulnerability, exploit it, capture the flag.

CTFs are like a security gym. Everything you’ve learned in this course – enumeration, scanning, exploitation, post-exploitation – you use it in CTFs. But CTFs force you to apply it under pressure, against timed challenges.

More importantly, CTFs teach you how to think. How to enumerate a system methodically. How to try multiple attack vectors. How to persist when nothing obvious works.

Part of the free Intro to Cyber course by Cover6 Solutions.