2025 NSWCDD STEM TRIAD CTF How To Play

Welcome to the 2025 NSWCDD STEM Triad CTF AI CTF, Powered by GT Edge AI. Our CTF is designed to hone your prompt engineering skills, and help you think more flexibly about using AI to solve Cybersecurity problems. There are two major categories of challenges:

  1. Challenges that involve jailbreaking AI Assistants to retrieve flags.
  2. Challenges that involve general Cybersecurity skills (Cyber Hygiene, OSINT, Cryptography, and AI Ecosystem).
    1. Competitors can use AI Helpers to help them complete these challenges.

Getting Started: You are already logged into both platforms. You should have the CTF platform with the challenges page open on the left side of your screen, and the GT Edge AI Platform with the Explore Assistants page open on the right side.

Using the Platforms:

  1. On the CTF platform (left side), you’ll find 5 challenge categories:
    • AI Ecosystem
    • Cyber Hygiene
    • OSINT
    • Cryptography
    • AI Jailbreaking
  2. On the GT Edge AI Platform (right side), you’ll find 2 categories of assistants:
    • AI Jailbreaking
    • Helpers
  3. For help with challenges:
    • OSINT, Cryptography, and Cyber Hygiene challenges have corresponding helper assistants in the Helpers category.
    • The GT Edge AI Internet Search Helper can be used to help with any challenge, including AI Ecosystem Trivia.
  4. For AI Jailbreaking challenges:
    • Begin with the introduction challenge “Hello GT!” on the CTF platform.
    • Find the corresponding assistant in the AI Jailbreaking category on the GT Edge AI Platform.
    • Ask about GT Edge AI’s features to find the flag.
    • Copy and paste the flag into the “Flag” text input box in the challenge and submit it.
    • Continue this process to solve the remaining AI Jailbreaking challenges.

If you have any questions, please ask your attendant for assistance. They are here to help you throughout the competition.

Happy Solving!