https://assimti-charles.tech/Portfolio of ASSIMTI Essowèréou Charles, network and cybersecurity engineer in Togo. Security tools, infrastructure projects, CTF results and community work. 2026-10-12T20:43:03+00:00 ASSIMTI Essowèréou Charles https://assimti-charles.tech/ Jekyll © 2026 ASSIMTI Essowèréou Charles /assets/img/favicons/favicon.ico /assets/img/favicons/favicon-96x96.png 2026-06-12T00:00:00+00:00 2026-10-12T19:20:32+00:00 https://assimti-charles.tech/posts/ecowas-grand-final-2026/ ASSIMTI Essowèréou Charles

Quick recap before this one: in the ECOWAS Regional Hackathon 2026 qualifiers, we finished first in Togo across the three phases. That qualified us for the continental Grand Final in Accra. This post is about what happened next. Writing it down now before the details get fuzzy. Sunday, June 7: arriving in Accra Flight to Accra on Sunday, June 7. We landed roughly at the same time as Côte d...

2026-05-01T00:00:00+00:00 2026-10-12T19:20:32+00:00 https://assimti-charles.tech/posts/ecowas-hackathon-2026/ ASSIMTI Essowèréou Charles

The ECOWAS Regional Hackathon is the official cybersecurity competition of the Economic Community of West African States. Each of the 15 member nations runs a national qualifier (Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Côte d’Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo), and the team that finishes first in their country qualifies for the...

2026-03-22T00:00:00+00:00 2026-10-12T19:24:15+00:00 https://assimti-charles.tech/posts/wu-zerodays-ctf-2026/ ASSIMTI Essowèréou Charles

Zerodays is The Irish Colleges Cyber-Security Challenge, held every year at Croke Park in Dublin. Teams of four compete across web, forensics, crypto, pwn, stegano, and network categories. This year’s edition ran on March 22, 2026. I played as en2eavor. Tuff Pigeon (WarmUp) Three web steps. Each one gives a token fragment; combine them to get the flag. Tuff Pigeon challenge overview. St...

2025-11-11T00:00:00+00:00 2026-10-12T20:15:01+00:00 https://assimti-charles.tech/posts/icc-japan/ ASSIMTI Essowèréou Charles

Representing Africa on the world stage of cybersecurity. What is the ICC? The International Cybersecurity Challenge (ICC) is a global youth cybersecurity competition created by a consortium including ENISA (EU), Code Blue (Japan), Katzcy (USA), and NUST (Africa). One team per continent. The top young players from each region, selected through a rigorous national and regional process based on...

2025-09-22T00:00:00+00:00 2026-10-12T20:15:01+00:00 https://assimti-charles.tech/posts/campus-awards/ ASSIMTI Essowèréou Charles

Impact Campus Trophy and Most Innovative Student Award, received at JPOPE 2025. On September 22, 2025, IPNET Institute of Technology held JPOPE 2025, its annual Open House Day. More than 50 student IT projects were presented to a jury, recruiters and the academic community. I received two separate awards that day. Impact Campus Trophy Recognizes the initiative with the greatest campus im...