1st Edition of CyberlympicsKenya Qualification: 30 - 31 May 2025
Finals: 12 June 2025
Kenya's #1 Hacking Competition
Cyberlympics Kenya 2025
The 1st in-person hacking / Capture-The-Flag competition is designed to address the cybersecurity skills gap and digital divide that persists in Kenya, while helping Kenya grow its status as Silicon Savannah.
Cyberlympics Kenya is an online cyber-security and cyber-defense competition.
It pits teams from Kenya in a 24-hour intense hands-on real-life based scenarios and hands-on virtual labs that cover a series of challenges in areas such as:
- Offensive Cyber Warfare
- Digital Forensics
- Cyber Defense
- Cryptography
- Web Application Exploitation
- System Exploitation
- Malware Analysis
- Reverse Engineering
- Cryptography
- Programming
The competition starts with a pre-qualification round where only the best teams get selected to compete during the 24-hour Final battle. Teams consist of Minimum 2 and Maximum 4 players.
Prizes
1st Place
Professional Internship and Certificate for each Player
This prize includes a professional internship for each team member, merchandise and a complimentary ticket to attend the 6th edition of Africa Cyber Defense Forum 2025
2nd Place
Merchandise and Certificate for Each Player
Merchandise and a complimentary ticket to attend the 6th edition of Africa Cyber Defense Forum 2025
3rd Place
Complimentary Ticket for ACDF 2025 and Certificate for Each Player
A complimentary ticket to attend the 6th edition of Africa Cyber Defense Forum 2025
Register for Cyberlympics Kenya 2025
Registration for Cyberlympics Kenya 2025 has 🛑 closed. Get in touch with us on secretariat@africacyberdefenseforum.com
Our Mission
Fields Covered
- ^Ethical hacking and penetration testing
- ^Incident response and computer forensics
- ^Programming
- ^Cryptography
- ^Reverse Engineering
- ^Networking
Target Participants
- ^Students
- ^Street smart freelancers
- ^Active information security professionals
- ^Law enforcement personnel
- ^CTF hobbyists
Eligibility Criteria, Rules, and Regulations
- Must be Over 18 years of Age
- A citizen of Kenya
- Participants must have applied to participate before the deadline and have received a confirmation of being selected for the prequalification and for the final stages
- Registering twice (e.g., using multiple email addresses) to participate in the event is prohibited
- If a participant is found at any time to not meet the above requirements, she/he would not be eligible for participating in the final and/or winning prizes
Ethics
You participate in this competition as an ethical hacker and, although you might use some of the same tools used by the bad guys, there are some activities that you should not engage with. In particular, the following activities are prohibited:
- Any activities or actions that would interfere, obstruct, or disturb other teams, participants, and event organizers
- Spying on other teams, participants, and event organizers
- Providing hints, clues, or answers to participants other than your own team members
- Seeking or receiving hints, clues, or answers from participants other than your own team members – a hint or a clue provided by event organizers to all participants would be acceptable
- Participating in multiple teams
- Any attacks on networks and systems
- In a nutshell: have fun and try not to cheat!
If the event organizers find any prohibited activities, they have the right to deduct points or disqualify a team. Same penalties would be applied even if event organizers find any prohibited activities before and after the competition.