Education

The laboratory is equipped with hardware and software , used for research and education.

Achievements on the national stage

The laboratory is the base for Ukraine’s best CTF team.

SHE DEFENDS: Cyber & OSINT competition 1 place
First National CTF: League of Legends 1 place
Kharkiv Regional Rookie CTF 2025 1 place
BEST CTF 2025 1 place
CTFLviv2025 1 place
CTF for Women 1 place
MITIT CTF 2025 1 place
CTF Cisco & Splunk 1 place
Ukrainian-Japanese CTF 2024 1, 2 places
Incident Response Days 3.0 1, 2 places
OSINT Challenge 2024 1 place
UA30CTF 2023 2 1, 2 place
MITIT CTF 2023 1 place
UA30CTF 2023 1 place
BsidesKharkov CTF 2019 1, 2, 3 places
Deloitte CTF 2018 1, 2, 3 places
Nonamecon CTF 2018 2 place

At the international level, we compete as part of the dcua team.

Team dcua on CTFTime dcua community

Educational clubs

Creation and development of software products in cybersecurity

Transforming thesis projects into real startups. Free training in management and marketing from Product IT Foundation, assistance with patenting, and bonuses to scholarship rankings.

Telegram-група: @infosec_kpi_pfe

Information security club dcua-school

Practical preparation for CTF competitions and legal practice in Offensive Security. Experience in attack and defense under the guidance of dcua team members (Top 10 in the world in 2013-2019 according to CTFTime.org, #1 in 2016, #1 in Ukraine annually).

Telegram-група: @infosec_kpi_dev

Selected topics in information security, offensive and cyber security

Applied scientific research: vulnerability analysis, OSINT, and complex system protection. Development of R&D projects at bachelor's and master's levels. Search for non-standard solutions in technical information protection, preparation of scientific publications.

Telegram-група: @infosec_kpi_sci

Educational components

Introduction to Malware Analysis
Introduction to APT analysis methods, deployment of a secure environment, acquisition of static and dynamic analysis skills. Research into APT algorithms in accordance with MITRE ATT&CK. Collection of indicators of compromise (IoC) and exchange of threat data via the MISP platform.

Telegram-група: @crdf_re

Reverse engineering and malware analysis
In-depth study of reverse engineering and analysis methods. The programme covers analysis of high-level programming languages, working with assembler (x86/x64, ARM), research into network communications, analysis of interpreted code (Python, JavaScript, .NET) and mobile applications (Android, iOS).

Telegram-група: @kpi_re

Analysis of binary vulnerabilities
The course is devoted to in-depth study of methods for detecting and exploiting vulnerabilities in application and system software. The training covers analysis of applications for Windows and Linux operating systems on Intel x86/x64 and ARM/ARM64 architectures.

Telegram-група: @kpi_bv