Mayhem Case Studies

Mayhem is a fully autonomous system for finding and fixing computer security vulnerabilities. On Thursday, August 4, 2016, Mayhem competed in the historical DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge against other computers in a fully automatic hacking contest...and won.

Why am I excited about the DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge (CGC)? CGC gives the world, for the first time, an objective competition to measure how well different automated tools work on a level playing field.

Aside from our cool research, ForAllSecure also works on creating fun and engaging games to promote computer security. Just about every employee in our company has been involved in Capture the Flag exercises for the past several years, and we have been hosting these online events for our customers...

While you can't automate away the placement of subtle bugs and clever tricks, we can definitely add meaningful sources of variance to challenges.

In June, ForAllSecure participated in DARPA's Cyber Grand Challenge (CGC) Qualification Event (CQE). Now that the CQE is over, we're excited to give you a glimpse of its inner workings.

Although we have been very busy at ForAllSecure, we finally got the time to redo our website. Part of this refresh is also a new blog. We plan to talk about interesting things we are working on, so check back frequently!