About Us
What we do.
Zero Days Security organise and promote cyber security challenges, commonly known as capture the flag (CTF) events. Our aims are to promote, develop and encourage participation in CTF events in Ireland. We run a number of our own events each year and also run custom in-house events for corporations and colleges. Our flagship event is the annual ZeroDays CTF for Colleges which is run each year around April. If you would like to have your own event then please send us a mail info@zerodays.ie.
ZeroDays Events
Some of our previous and upcoming events
LYIT, Inter-colleges CTF
We ran a training day for the Letterkenny IT Ethical Hacker Society and also provided the platform and challenges for their Inter-colleges CTF event.
ZeroDays CTF
Irish colleges CTF event with over 50 teams competing to be crowned Irish Champions.
Cyber Summer Camp
ZeroDays Security helped with challenges for ITB's Cyber Security Summer camp for students aged 13-18
European Cyber Security Challenge
ZeroDays Security will once again be organising the qualifying rounds and team selections to represent Ireland at this years European Cyber Security Challenge. The qualifiers are currently in progress, more details
BSides Belfast
ZeroDays Security are delighted to be part of BSides Belfast 2017. We'll be on site providing a fun challenging CTF event for all.
Zeminar conference 2017, RDS
ZeroDays Security will once again be providing interactive code breaking and security challenges for the Institute of Technology Blanchardstown to promote their Digital Forensics and Cyber Security courses for the 3 day event.
ZeroDays Security Team
Mark Cummins
Founder/Organiser of ZeroDays CTF
Mark Cummins is one of the two founding members of Zerodays Security. In 2015 together with Mark Lane, they created Zerodays Security to organise and promote cyber security challenges, commonly known as capture the flag (CTF) events. ZeroDays aims to promote, develop and encourage participation in CTF events in Ireland. Thier flagship event the Irish Colleges Cyber Security Challenge, aims to showcase and identify the best cyber security students in the country.
Mark is a cyber security lecturer at the Institute of Technology in Blanchardstown, Dublin. When he is not organsing CTFs, Mark enjoys competing in CTFs himself and is also a keen canoeist, adventure racer and enjoys playing chess
Mark Lane
Founder/Organiser of ZeroDays CTF
Mark Lane is a staff member at ITB , lecturing in subjects related to computer systems, computer networking, secure communications, network security and network forensics. He is also currently undertaking a PhD in the area of intrusion detection. Mark is co-organiser, with Mark Cummins, of the ZeroDays CTF which aims to promote the hacker and security community in Irish colleges. He is a contributor to Digital Forensics Magazine.