Partners
Our partners power the competition
Sponsorship funds the infrastructure, events, and finals that give students real-world experience, and puts your organization in front of exceptional emerging talent.
This season's partners
Premier Partner
IBM Security has been the Premier-level sponsor of CPTC since our inception in 2015. Beyond their passion for cybersecurity education, they are a wonderful partner to work with — without IBM's support, this competition would not be where it is today.
Theme Partner
Anthropic is an AI safety company and the maker of Claude. This is a placeholder entry used to test the Theme Partner tier layout, blurb, and links.
Gold Partners
At Black Hills Information Security (BHIS), we strive to strengthen our customers' information security infrastructure and employees through penetration testing, consulting, and defensive security services. Since our founding in 2008, companies of all sizes — from small community banks to Fortune 100 companies — have entrusted us with their business.
Silver Partners
Security Risk Advisors is a cybersecurity firm offering purple teaming, penetration testing, cloud security, and 24/7 security operations. They help organizations measure and strengthen their defenses against real-world attacks.
Hurricane Labs is a managed security services provider specializing in Splunk and SIEM. They help organizations detect threats and get more value out of their security operations.
Bronze Partners
Supporters
Volunteer Partners
To all of our employers, who listen to us talk about CPTC every day and support us throughout the year, we say thanks!
Why partner with CPTC
Meet the talent
Connect directly with top cybersecurity students at the Sponsor Faire, where many earn co-ops and full-time offers.
Shape the next generation
Help define realistic scenarios and judge real deliverables, mentoring students on professional practice.
Brand visibility
Reach a global audience of students, faculty, and security professionals across our regions and finals.
Interested in sponsoring?
We'll share current sponsorship tiers and how your support directly helps students.