enzo@hins

Competitions

I enter around ten events a year, in three kinds: blue team, CTF and red team, and programming. Newest first, with a retrospective where I wrote one.

  1. Nov 2026

    NCL Cyber Skyline, Fall 2026 57th of 3,041, every challenge solved

    Team event. AI did most of the solving and our team operated it.

    ctf

  2. Nov 2026

    ICPC Mid-Atlantic Regional 1st at the JMU site, 6 problems

    Team Industrial Revolution. Top 11 in the region.

    programming

  3. Apr 2026

    Summit CTF Top 10

    Initial access and privilege escalation across a simulated multi-layer airport network. Web exploitation was my lane.

    ctf

  4. Mar 2026

    MACCDC Regionals Competed, blue team

    Team of 8. Palo Alto firewall plus writing up incident response. We did not place well.

    blue team

  5. Feb 2026

    VMI CyberFusion (Microsoft CTF) 1st place

    Built an AI-assisted CTF orchestrator for it. Every challenge was done within 2 of the 4 hours.

    ctf Read the retrospective

  6. Jan 2026

    MACCDC Qualifiers Qualified

    Palo Alto firewall admin plus injects support. Learned the platform in under 30 days.

    blue team Read the retrospective

  7. Nov 2025

    ICPC Mid-Atlantic Regional 5 problems, about 50th percentile

    My first programming contest. Solo-solved two problems.

    programming Read the retrospective