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CyberThreat 2026 · United Kingdom · 2026

CyberThreat 2026 Planned Hackable Badge Challenge

Planned interactive hackable-badge competition for London

CyberThreat's official 2026 site and SANS registration page advertise an interactive hackable-badge challenge and a Hackable Badge Competition for the November London event, and the official site's benefits copy now labels the artifact a Digital Event Badge that delegates wear and hack to explore, attack, and solve challenges throughout the event. They establish a planned 2026 badge activity with an official form label, not a released platform specification, attendee-wide issue, or completed handoff.

CyberThreat SANS Institute United Kingdom London Roundhouse Hackable Badge Badge Challenge CTF Planned Europe
EventCyberThreat 2026
SeriesCyberThreat
LocationRoundhouse, Camden, London, United Kingdom
CountryUnited Kingdom

People

Authors & Credits

CyberThreat 2026 host and official event publisher

SANS Institute

SANS publishes the CyberThreat 2026 event and registration page, which lists the planned hackable-badge activity. This is a host/publisher credit only, not a badge-design, manufacture, challenge-author, allocation, delivery, or image-reuse credit.

Source

Why It Mattered

It keeps CyberThreat's active badge programme current without projecting the deeply documented 2024 Secure Impact AVR badge onto a future edition. The record preserves the official 2026 challenge commitment and Digital Event Badge label while making every unannounced platform, allocation, and implementation detail explicit.

Hardware

The 2026 sources call out hackable badges and label the artifact a Digital Event Badge, but do not identify the platform or app behind that label, a PCB, electronic or non-electronic implementation, controller, display, power source, connector, radio, sensor, circuit, component list, manufacturing run, schematic, BOM, Gerber, assembly guide, or physical badge count.

Software & Apps

The 2026 sources advertise an interactive hackable-badge challenge or competition but publish no challenge rules, firmware, source code, binary, app, protocol, toolchain, flashing workflow, scoring model, safety guidance, testing boundary, or release licence.

Lore

SANS lists CyberThreat 2026 for November 16-17 at the Roundhouse in Camden, London and includes a Hackable Badge Competition in the in-person offering. CyberThreat's own site calls the activity an interactive hackable badge challenge and, since the September 28, 2026 recheck, describes the artifact as a Digital Event Badge: You don't just wear it, hack it. The historical 2024 Secure Impact badge and walkthroughs are retained as a separate record rather than treated as a 2026 design, supplier, challenge, or handoff commitment.

Source-backed hardware metadata

Technical Profile

Structured technical signals seeded from public badge documentation, repositories, schematics, firmware notes, or event evidence. These fields are designed for filtering, API use, repair planning, preservation, and future Companion Gear matching.

Artifact type

  • Planned badge documented

    SANS's official CyberThreat 2026 page says the programme features hackable badges and lists a Hackable Badge Competition, but does not identify the artifact's form or technical implementation.

    Signal source

Lifecycle

Add-ons & Upgrades

planned badge challenge official 2026 programme statement

2026 interactive hackable badge challenge

CyberThreat's official site says delegates can attempt an interactive hackable badge challenge and labels the artifact a Digital Event Badge to wear and hack. That supports a planned badge-related activity with an official form label, but does not state the number of badges, who receives one, the platform behind the digital artifact, challenge rules, entry requirements, timing, scoring, prize terms, technical surface, safety boundary, or completion outcome.

Compatibility: CyberThreat 2026 Planned Hackable Badge Challenge

Source
registration-package activity official 2026 registration listing

In-person Hackable Badge Competition listing

SANS lists a Hackable Badge Competition among the in-person CyberThreat 2026 inclusions. The page does not say whether that listing grants a physical badge, which registrants may participate, whether there are badge variants, or how the competition operates.

Compatibility: CyberThreat 2026 Planned Hackable Badge Challenge

Source

Operational history

Issues & Camp Impact

2024 lineage non-transfer boundary note

CyberThreat's site still hosts rich 2024 Secure Impact badge and walkthrough material, including hardware and firmware challenge evidence, while its 2026 pages give only high-level hackable-badge activity wording. No reviewed source says that Secure Impact, the ATmega1284P/FTDI design, the nine challenges, or any 2024 mechanics will return in 2026.

The catalogue preserves the 2024 technical dossier without silently carrying its components, creator, challenge count, software, or delivery model into the planned 2026 record.

Confidence
separate year-specific source records
Status
2024 archive retained separately; 2026 design unannounced
Timeframe
2026 pre-event source pass
Source note
CyberThreat 2024 archive on the current official site and CyberThreat/SANS 2026 event pages.
hardware, firmware, and challenge-implementation gap note

The sources use hackable-badge and competition language, and the official event page now labels the artifact a Digital Event Badge, but they publish no platform or app behind that digital label, no PCB, controller, components, display, power system, connector, radio, sensor, schematic, BOM, Gerber, firmware, source, binary, protocol, toolchain, flashing path, challenge rules, scoring model, test plan, safety guidance, or licence.

The record does not turn a planned interactive challenge and digital-artifact label into an electronic specification, a reproducible workflow, or a safe operating instruction.

Confidence
official high-level challenge wording
Status
digital artifact label published; no technical release recovered
Timeframe
2026 pre-event source pass
Source note
CyberThreat official event page and SANS CyberThreat 2026 registration page.
missing rights-cleared image note

No CyberThreat 2026 Planned Hackable Badge Challenge image is published because the current public source trail has not been paired with a reusable original badge or artifact photo or official upstream raster render with source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.

The United Kingdom record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying source-page media, documentation screenshots, event photos, social media, placeholders, or generated approximations.

Confidence
local project policy
Status
needs licensed original replacement
Timeframe
current catalogue build
Source note
badge.gallery image policy and CyberThreat and SANS official 2026 event and registration source trail.
planned badge and fulfilment boundary note

CyberThreat and SANS advertise a 2026 hackable-badge activity before the event. Neither source confirms a final badge design, manufacture, shipment, quantity, ticket-tier entitlement, participant allocation, collection process, delivery, replacement policy, completed competition, or individual handoff.

The catalogue treats this as a source-backed planned badge challenge rather than a confirmed distributed 2026 conference artifact.

Confidence
official 2026 event and registration pages
Status
planned event; post-event evidence pending
Timeframe
before November 16-17, 2026
Source note
CyberThreat official event page and SANS CyberThreat 2026 registration page.

Resources

CyberThreat 2026 official event page official event page · CyberThreat's official page identifies the November 16-17 Roundhouse, London event and advertises an interactive hackable badge challenge. Its benefits copy labels the artifact a Digital Event Badge with the wording You don't just wear it, hack it - explore, attack and solve challenges throughout the event, while the event description cites team problem solving and hackable badge challenges. It still does not name a platform, app, PCB, or controller, and does not describe delivery or technical implementation. SANS CyberThreat 2026 registration official registration page · SANS's official 2026 event page gives the dates and Roundhouse location, says CyberThreat 2026 features hackable badges, and lists a Hackable Badge Competition in the in-person offer. It does not say that every registrant receives a badge or identify the competition's hardware or software.

Sources

CyberThreat / SANS Institute: CyberThreat Retrieved 2026-09-28 · Primary official source for CyberThreat's planned November 16-17, 2026 London event and its stated interactive hackable badge challenge. The September 28, 2026 recheck found the benefits copy labelling the artifact a Digital Event Badge that delegates wear and hack to explore, attack, and solve challenges throughout the event. It is a programme and artifact-label statement, not a 2026 hardware, allocation, fulfilment, or image-rights release. SANS Institute: SANS CyberThreat 2026 Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary official registration source for the November 16-17 Roundhouse event, the statement that the 2026 programme features hackable badges, and the in-person Hackable Badge Competition listing. It does not identify a badge unit, recipient, technical architecture, challenge implementation, or final handoff.