Game of the Month is a new way to explore past President’s Cup challenges and strengthen your cybersecurity expertise.
Each quarter focuses on a NICE Framework Work Role, with monthly challenges that gradually increase in difficulty.
If you have any questions about the Game of the Month Challenge, please reach out to the President’s Cup Team.
Why Participate?
Develop Key Skills
Engage in continuous learning and gain hands-on experience by applying your skills in intrusion analysis and digital forensics.
Boost Your Career
Work on NICE framework tasks critical to cybersecurity investigations.
Challenge Yourself
Solve a real-world cyber incident scenario.
Game of the Month promotes the best that the President’s Cup has to offer with content from across the archive.
Each new challenge will be announced during the first week of the month on this page and CISA’s social media accounts:
June 2026: They All Float Down Here
They All Float Down Here
PC6, Round 1, Teams / Secure Software Development (DD-WRL-003) / Vulnerability Analysis (PD-WRL-007)
Why Participate?:
- Develop Key Cybersecurity Skills – Strengthen your ability to assess, access, and influence complex technical environments.
- Boost Your Career – Build hands-on experience aligned to key NICE cyber work roles.
- Challenge Yourself – Work through a realistic, high-impact offensive scenario under mission-driven constraints.
Solvability Rate
75%
Average Time
120 minutes
Federal employees looking to enhance their cyber skills can also visit the Practice Area to tackle past President's Cup challenges and earn completion certificates for continuing education credits. The President's Cup GitHub is another great way to access artifacts, solution guides, and additional resources from previous competitions.