• •OSEG (Open Source Security Foundation) announced a $100,000 initiative to modernize Capture The Flag (CTF) challenges.
• •The funding aims to support developers creating 'AI-resistant' challenges that prioritize human intuition and manual research over automated scripting.
• •The initiative addresses a gap in the cybersecurity training ecosystem, where LLMs have rendered many traditional, puzzle-based challenges trivial to solve.
• •It remains unclear how the project will measure the long-term effectiveness of these new challenges against rapidly evolving LLM capabilities.

OSEG has committed $100,000 to incentivize the design of cybersecurity competitions that remain viable in an era of advanced automation. While CTFs have long served as the primary training ground for security professionals, the widespread adoption of AI tools has flattened the difficulty curve for many established challenge types. Unlike previous industry efforts that focused on defensive patching, this initiative targets the fundamental design of educational puzzles to ensure they continue to test human critical thinking. Whether these manual-focused challenges can maintain parity with the speed of AI development remains a central, unanswered question for the security community.