Success Story
Schwarz IT
Schwarz IT is responsible for all software and infrastructure across the Schwarz Group companies. With broad expertise in consulting, software development, cybersecurity, and AI applications, Schwarz IT ensures the digital strength and future-readiness of the entire organization.
- satisfaction rate with the event and challenges
- 100%
- engagement rate of all participants
- 100%
- to plan and execute the project
- 3 months
“Working with CTFbazaar on our Schwarz IT Hackathon was a genuinely positive experience that we recommend to any other event organizers. They handled everything with professionalism and dedication, and we're grateful for their partnership.”
01
The Challenge
Schwarz IT set out to organize a 24-hour cybersecurity hackathon for teams of students and pupils across the country. Key issues included:
- Engaging players with varying levels of technical expertise and cybersecurity knowledge
- Releasing waves of challenges grouped by difficulty
- Providing 3 tiers of hints that can guide even a beginner through the solution, at a cost of their team's score
- Ensuring 24/7 uptime without any interruptions
02
The Solution
To meet these demands, CTFbazaar produced a Capture the Flag (CTF) platform tailored to the event’s unique goals:
- Tailor-made challenges for 6 of the most common cybersecurity categories, each at beginner, intermediate and advanced difficulty
- Real-time analytics and monitoring to ensure a fair competition and no service downtime
- Fully redundant and scalable infrastructure with multiple availability zones
- Failover plan to a secondary cloud provider if the worst were to happen
03
The Results
The event exceeded expectations and had full participant engagement:
- Over 85% of challenges were solved by at least one team, lesser as difficulty increases, showcasing a good judgement of the audience
- Real-time support was provided to players that had technical questions or issues
- There was zero downtime for the duration of the event
- After the event, a final ranking was announced, with teams celebrating their success and sharing solutions