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Switzerland's Cybersecurity Community

Quietly brilliant.
Precisely secure.

Switzerland doesn't announce its security capabilities. It demonstrates them. From ETH Zürich's cryptography labs to EPFL's security research, to the institutions that protect global finance — Hack CH connects the people who keep the world's most trusted systems safe.

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The Institutions

Where Swiss security
excellence is made

Switzerland's research institutions consistently rank among the world's finest in computer science, cryptography, and security. Hack CH exists to translate that academic excellence into a practitioner community that is equally exceptional.

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ETH Zürich

Top-5 globally for computer science. Home to world-leading cryptography and information security research.

DE
II

EPFL Lausanne

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne — pioneering research in systems security and privacy-preserving computation.

FR
III

University of Bern

Leading post-quantum cryptography and applied security research, in direct collaboration with NIST.

DE
IV

CERN Security

The most complex computing environment in science — and one of the world's most rigorous network security operations.

FR/EN
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Swiss Federal Intelligence

NDB cybersecurity unit and MELANI, Switzerland's national cybersecurity monitoring and reporting centre.

CH
Gründlichkeit.

Thoroughness — the German word that defines Swiss security culture. Every system analysed completely. Every vulnerability documented. Every patch verified. No shortcuts.

Programs

Swiss precision,
applied to security

Hack CH programmes reflect the Swiss character — rigorously structured, multilingual, and designed to produce practitioners who meet the exacting standards of Switzerland's public and private institutions.

01

Swiss CTF League

A national Capture The Flag competition series across German, French, and Italian-speaking Switzerland — connecting university security clubs in all four linguistic regions.

02

Crypto Research Bridge

A practitioner-to-researcher bridge programme connecting ETH and EPFL cryptography labs with Swiss financial institutions — translating academic breakthroughs into deployable defences.

03

Swiss Red Team Cert

A professional certification in offensive security designed specifically for the Swiss regulatory environment — recognised by FINMA, the Swiss Bankers Association, and federal agencies.

04

International Geneva Lab

A unique programme leveraging Geneva's concentration of international organisations — UN, ICRC, WHO — to develop security professionals for multilateral institutional environments.

05

Kantonspolizei Partnership

Structured collaboration with cantonal police cyber units — developing digital forensics and incident response capabilities for Switzerland's decentralised law enforcement model.

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Swiss Talent Pipeline

A vetted placement programme connecting Hack CH members with security roles at Swiss private banks, pharmaceutical companies, and federal government agencies.

Switzerland by Numbers

A small country
with an outsized impact

8.7 million people. Four official languages. Two of the world's top-ten computer science universities. And a financial system that the world trusts with more than anywhere else. The security stakes in Switzerland are extraordinary.

ETH Zürich global CS ranking #3 worldwide
Swiss banking assets managed CHF 7.9T
International organisations in Geneva 750+
Official national languages 4 DE · FR · IT · RM
NCSC reports per year 34,000+ incidents

Who We Protect

The sectors where Swiss
security matters most

The organisations Swiss society trusts most — with its money, its health, its international standing — are exactly those for whom a security failure is most catastrophic.

Private Banking Wealth Management Pharmaceuticals International Organisations Federal Government Watch & Luxury Insurance & Reinsurance Commodity Trading Research & Academia

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Swiss security.
Seriously.

Join the Hack CH community — connecting Switzerland's security researchers, practitioners, and the institutions that depend on their expertise.

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