A message to all cybersecurity talents in Switzerland: On March 1, the qualifiers for the Swiss Hacking Challenge (SHC) 2025 have started.

Great news for all young Swiss cybersecurity specialists: Qualifications for the Swiss national hacking team start this Friday, March 1, and will run through April 30 with the finals on July 13/14.

Switzerland has become a hotspot for security startups. Our program chair Christian Folini discusses this with his guests cryptographer Jean-Philippe Aumasson (@veorq), co-founder and Chief Security Officer of Taurus, and Jonas Wagner (@_jwagner), co-founder and Chief Technical Officer of Threatray.

A few weeks ago, we ran our third SCS in a nutshell online interview with Lt. Gen. Thomas Süssli, Chief of the Swiss Armed Forces, and Dr. Myriam Dunn Cavelty from the ETH Center for Strategic Studies.

Your host Christian Folini has invited Tobias Ospelt, founder of Swiss penetration testing company Pentagrid, and the successful freelance bug bounty hunter Raphäel Arrouas, also known as Xel among his peers.

Back in June, we cancelled the on-site Swiss Cyber Storm 2020 conference. We also ruled out a day-long virtual happening, but we said we were looking into a brief online presentation or some fun online form.