Team Austria is the Austrian National Team competing in the European Cyber Security Challenge (ECSC).
This year, the compotition is hosted in Warsaw, Poland from 6th to 10th of October 2025!
The team is selected through a national qualification process and consists of the best 10 talents in the country:
- 5 junior (born in 2005 or later)
- 5 senior (born in 2000 until including 2004)
The team is supported by a group of coaches that help the participants prepare for the competition.
Qualification#
The qualification process is available to a pool of participants from the current and past editions of the Austria Cyber Security Challenge. To be eligible for the qualification, participants must be Austrian citizens and must be born between 2011 and 2000. You are eligible for the qualification if you meet at least one of the following criteria:
- You were a member of Team Austria in any of the previous 2 editions of ECSC (2023, 2024).
- You were/are in the top-20 for your age group (junior or senior) in the Austria Cyber Security Challenge qualifiers in 2024 or 2025.
Participants from the pool will be invited to play two selected international CTF events during the summer, after the ACSC finals. They will be asked to keep track of their performance in these events and submit a short write-up of their solutions. The coaches will use this information and the live performance during the CTFs to select the team. After the initial selection, a smaller group of participants will be invited to play another CTF to decide the final team.
Team 2024#
The team for the 2024 edition of the ECSC was:
- Fabian Gurtner, JKU Linz
- Sarah Nöbauer, JKU Linz
- Matthias Pleschinger
- Johannes Puinbroek
- Jannik Schager, HTBLuVa Villach
- Lea Holter (captain), TU Wien and ETH Zürich
- Dominik Apel, TU Wien
- Johannes Berndorfer, TU Wien
- Jonas Heschl, GF passgenau-digital GmbH
- Georg Felber, TU Wien
Coaches:
- Patrick Pirker, Syslifters
- Manuel Reinsperger, A1 Digital and TU Wien
- Marcel Schnideritsch, HTBLA Kaindorf and CANCOM
- Marco Squarcina (head coach), TU Wien