Competition: AEGIS CTF International Invitational, Taiwan

Date & Venue: November 7–8, 2026, National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Taiwan

Theme: AI for Security, Security for AI

Result: TEAM BoB, 1st place (16 teams)

Yonhap News article (Korean)

Our research intern Junghyun Yoon won the AEGIS CTF International Invitational in Taiwan as a member of TEAM BoB, a team of graduates and trainees of KISA’s Best of the Best (BoB) next-generation security leader program.

AEGIS CTF is a leading cybersecurity competition in Taiwan, organized by institutions including the National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology (NCSIST). This year it was held as an international invitational with 16 teams: 10 Taiwanese teams, last year’s champion, and 5 invited international teams.

Under the theme “AI for Security, Security for AI,” the challenges covered AI-based threat detection, vulnerability analysis, real-time defense, and the security of AI and machine learning systems. TEAM BoB solved these challenges and finished first overall.