CSCYBERSHIELDETHIOPIAአማርኛWhat’s next

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

HARDEN.
HACK.
HUNT.

A place to build, test, and share cybersecurity skills. Real environments. Shared challenges. A growing community in Ethiopia.

Relive CyberShield 2026Explore the challenges
2023where the story began
03hands-on formats
ADDISour community
TOGETHERhow we grow
01 / THE CHALLENGES

THREE WAYS
TO THINK SECURITY.

CyberShield brings defense, offensive security, and investigation into practical team challenges. Each event has its own schedule and rules. The mindset carries forward.

01

HARDEN

DEFEND THE ENVIRONMENT.

Teams receive a vulnerable or misconfigured network and harden it against the competition's defined security framework. Organizers score the improvement between the baseline and post-hardening results.
  • Organizer baseline assessment
  • Team hardening activity
  • Organizer post-hardening scan
DEFEND 02

RED TEAM

COMPROMISE THE NETWORK.

Discover attack paths, exploit weaknesses, pivot through the environment, and capture objectives.
  • Reconnaissance
  • Exploitation
  • Pivot and escalate
TEST 03

INCIDENT RESPONSE

INVESTIGATE THE ATTACK.

Follow the evidence, analyze activity, reconstruct the incident, and identify what matters.
  • Artifact analysis
  • Threat hunting
  • Incident reconstruction
INVESTIGATE
02 / THE LATEST CHAPTER

CYBERSHIELD
2026.

The challenges. The teamwork. The people behind it.

Explore the 2026 archive
03 / OUR STORY

A COMMUNITY.
BUILT BY DOING.

2025 WINNER STORIES

MEET THE 2025 WINNERS.

Members of the first-, second-, and third-place teams share how they entered cybersecurity, what they learned, and why new competitors should participate.
2025

THE COMMUNITY RETURNED

Competition, instruction, and a larger room of participants working side by side.

Competition floor · 2025CyberShield teams competing across the ALX technology hub in 2025
Competition floor · 2025
Technical briefing · 2025CyberShield participants presenting a technical briefing in 2025
Technical briefing · 2025
Learning together · 2025CyberShield participants attending a learning session in 2025
Learning together · 2025
Hands-on competition · 2025CyberShield participants working through the hands-on competition in 2025
Hands-on competition · 2025
2023

WHERE CYBERSHIELD BEGAN

The first teams, the first shared network, and the community photograph that started the story.

First edition teamwork · 2023Participants collaborating around laptops at the first CyberShield event in 2023
First edition teamwork · 2023
Teamwork from every angle · 2023Overhead view of a CyberShield team collaborating around laptops in 2023
Teamwork from every angle · 2023
Focused on the challenge · 2023Two CyberShield participants focused on their laptops in 2023
Focused on the challenge · 2023
The first CyberShield community · 2023Participants gathered for the first CyberShield community photograph in 2023
The first CyberShield community · 2023
04 / KEEP LEARNING

BUILD SKILLS.
STAY CURIOUS.

You do not need to wait for the next event. Strengthen your foundations, practice in authorized labs, and learn to work as a team.

Find your starting point
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Learning through collaboration
05 / PARTNER WITH CYBERSHIELD

HELP BUILD THE
NEXT GENERATION.

Partners do more than place a logo. They help make practical cybersecurity experience accessible to Ethiopian students and professionals.

Start a partnership conversation ↗
01

INFRASTRUCTURE

Cloud credits, platforms, labs, connectivity, and technical support.

02

LEARNING

Bootcamp instruction, mentoring, training vouchers, and career pathways.

03

EXPERIENCE

Challenge development, practitioner speakers, judges, and volunteers.

04

ACCESS

Sponsorship, prizes, participant support, and community outreach.