// OVERVIEW
Competition Format
ICO 2026 features a dual-track format: Day 1 Classic CTF across 5 cybersecurity domains, and Day 2 CTF4AI -- a dedicated AI security competition track. View the full Technical Syllabus →
Day 1: Classic CTF
5 hours of jeopardy-style CTF across 5 cybersecurity domains. AI tools permitted with usage limits -- testing human-AI collaboration.
- Binary Exploitation
- Cryptography
- Digital Forensics
- Reverse Engineering
- Web Security
Day 2: CTF4AI
5 hours dedicated to AI security -- the first dedicated AI security track at an international youth olympiad.
- AI Attack Surface -- prompt injection, model extraction, adversarial ML
- AI Defence & Detection -- guardrail testing, output verification, red-teaming
- AI Forensics -- deepfake detection, code audit, model fingerprinting
