The hackathon took place in the virtual city “Holm City”, which has modern infrastructure and modern information systems and services. This concept ensures that teams can practice and evaluate their skills and abilities without risking or compromising information resources.

In “Holm City” Hackathon participants gain experience in conducting attacks and defense in cyberspace without harming real ICT systems.
The Hackathon is an excellent opportunity to test the team’s ability in dealing with real threats, as well as to create new knowledge and skills that are needed to protect ICT systems and services in a modern and contemporary environment.

A hackathon is a team game that requires the whole team to coordinate activities to achieve the best possible result. Quick reaction, excellent communication and a clear strategy are just some of the many factors that affect the successful fight with other teams in capturing and winning the ICT resources in the virtual city “Holm City” and finally winning the throne.
Teams in the virtual city “Holm City” perform both attack and defense on ICT infrastructure and services. Each team has up to 5 members. In addition to the machines available to team members, the team also has its own ICT infrastructure that it must defend against attacks from other teams. Like any other city “Holm City” has public services that are vulnerable to attacks by all teams.

On the attack side, teams need to discover vulnerabilities on services and machines in the ICT infrastructure defended by other teams as well as on machines and services in the public area of “Holm City”, and then exploit them and raise a flag. The raising of the flag is done by starting a script that signals which team has won the goal and from that moment points are awarded to that team.
On the defense side, teams need to patch existing vulnerabilities in their own ICT infrastructure and in the public services of “Holm City”, in order to protect their raised flags from being taken down by another team.

The main goal of the Hackathon for the team is to occupy as many resources as possible, to raise as many of their own flags as possible in the ICT infrastructure of other teams as well as in the public part of “Holm City”, and to defend them as long as possible from attacks by other teams. When one team takes advantage of a vulnerability on a machine and notices that a flag has been raised, it knocks it down and raises its own, since then the points go to the team that raised the flag. The team that lost the flag will lose points.
The Hackathon in the virtual city “Holm City” not only tests the technical skills of the team and the individual, but also psychophysical strength because its duration is 4 hours, where at the same time the team members cooperate with each other, share tasks and solve various problems.