// OVERVIEW
Competition Format
ICOA 2026 features a dual-track format: Day 1 AI4CTF across 5 cybersecurity domains with AI-assisted solving, and Day 2 CTF4AI — a dedicated AI security competition track. View the full Technical Syllabus →
Day 1: AI4CTF
5 hours of jeopardy-style CTF across 5 cybersecurity domains. AI assistance via competition-provided API gateway with token 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
