About the Exercise
The 189CPT Battle Assembly Capture the Flag (CTF) is a score-only cyber training exercise designed to strengthen analytical and investigative skills across multiple cyber mission areas.
Exercise Focus
This CTF emphasizes real-world analytical tradecraft rather than live exploitation. Participants work with provided artifacts and datasets to identify adversary behavior, extract indicators, and build defensible analytic conclusions.
- Cyber Threat Intelligence
- Digital Forensics
- Network Analysis
- Host Analysis
- PCAP Analysis
- Memory Forensics
- Reverse Engineering
- Steganography
- Coding
- Detection Engineering
- Web Exploitation
- OSINT
Rules of Engagement
- No live exploitation or scanning
- No interaction with external systems
- All challenges are score-only
- Artifacts must be analyzed locally
- Flags represent analytic conclusions
About the Author
This exercise was created and developed by CPT Alvaro Garcia to support professional cyber training and readiness. The content reflects operationally relevant scenarios and methodologies aligned with real-world cyber operations, investigations, and incident response.
Professional Profile:
LinkedIn – CPT Alvaro Garcia
This environment is intended for authorized training use only. All activity may be monitored and logged.