About Us
Chaitin Tech is one of the industry's top intelligent network security companies founded in July 2014. It has strong practical security attack and defense capabilities. Its world's first intelligent semantic analysis technology with independent intellectual property rights has greatly improved the ability to discover unknown threats to network security.
The founding team of Chaitin Tech comes from the internationally renowned CTF team Tsinghua University “Blue Lotus”. Since its establishment, it has insisted on building world-leading core capabilities of intelligent offense and defense. In recent national network security competitions and real-network offensive and defensive drills in various industries at the national and regional levels, Chaitin Tech has won the championship nearly a hundred times. It has achieved a Grand Slam record of offense and defense from competition to actual combat, and from national to provincial level, and was named “the defensive team that best understands attacks”.
Facing the new security risks in the digital era, Chaitin Tech is based on practical attack and defense capabilities to bring users a new generation of security protection system with products such as the next-generation web application firewall, security assessment system, security verification platform, advanced threat analysis and early warning system, security analysis and management platform, asset attack surface management platform, host security management platform, camouflage deception system, and security big model as the core. Through high-quality security testing and consulting services, it helps customers build all-round leading practical, systematic, and normalized intelligent security operation capabilities.
长亭, taken from Li Shutong’s famous poem “Farewell”, is elegant and easy to understand. CHAITIN, named after Chaitin’s constant, the first constant that is confirmed to exist but has been proven incalculable, with infinite possibilities.
Our Story
Infinite Possibilities.
Invention Patents
Software Copyrights
Industry Standards Developed
Network Security Qualifications
Product Qualifications
Product Compatibility Validations
of High-Quality Vulnerability Disclosures
Core Competencies
Attack-Defense Exercise
- 1st Place in 2024 Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Cybersecurity Attack-Defense Exercise
- 1st Place in 2023 "Panshi Action" Shanghai Industrial and Information Technology Cybersecurity Attack-Defense Exercise
- 1st Place in 2022 & 2023 "Yuedun" Guangdong Digital Government Cybersecurity Attack-Defense Exercise
National-Level Competitions
- "Qiangwang Cup" National Cybersecurity Challenge
2019-2023: 5 consecutive years of 1st Place in the online competition
2022: Runner-Up in the offline competition, Best Enterprise Team
2021: Runner-Up in the offline competition, Best Exploit Award
2020: Champion of the offline competition
- "Wangding Cup" Cybersecurity Competition
2022 (3rd Edition): Second Prize, Best Breakthrough Award, Best Defense Award
2020 (2nd Edition): Third Prize
2018 (1st Edition): Second Prize
World-Class Competitions
- 2023 DEFCON CTF Qualifiers Champion & Final Runner-up
- 2017 Pwn2Own World Hacking Competition: Third Place
- 2016 DEFCON CTF Global Finals: Second Place
Professional Competitions
- 2024 “Juzhen Cup” Domestic Hardware and Software Security Testing Competition: 1st Prize, Best Exploit Award
- 2021 Inaugural Xinchuang Critical Products Challenge: 2nd Place Overall, Awarded “Elite Team for Xinchuang Security”
- 2021 “Tianfu Cup” Original Vulnerability Demonstration & Reproduction Competition: 1st Place Overall, Best Vulnerability Reproduction Award
- 2019 “Pinnacle Geeks” Security Skills Challenge: Champion
- 2015 & 2016 GeekPwn International Security Geeks Competition: 1st Prize
Full-Spectrum Support for National Vulnerability Databases
- Technical Support Unit for CNVD (National Information Security Vulnerability Sharing Platform)
- Technical Support Unit (Level 3) for Xinchuang Government Product Security Vulnerability Repository
- Technical Support Certification (Level 1) for CNNVD (National Information Security Vulnerability Database)
- Technical Support Unit for MIIT Mobile Internet App Product Security Vulnerability Repository
Recognition by Authoritative Vulnerability Institutions
- MIIT Cybersecurity Threat and Vulnerability Sharing Platform: Outstanding Vulnerability Collaboration Unit, Excellent Vulnerability Reporting Organization, and 2023 Most Contributory Vulnerability Governance Partner
- CNNVD 2022 & 2023 Outstanding Technical Support Unit
- CNNVD 2023 (Phase 1) Level 1 Vulnerability Contribution Award
- CNNVD 2023 Outstanding Contribution Award for Critical Vulnerability Resolution
- CNVD 2022 Outstanding Contribution to Vulnerability Emergency Response
- CNVD 2020 Original Vulnerability Discovery Contributor & Most Valuable Vulnerability Award
- 2023: 1,500+ vulnerabilities submitted, including 290+ original vulnerabilities, with 63% classified as high-risk or above
Signature Events
Real World CTF is an international cybersecurity competition hosted by Chaitin Tech since 2018. The competition pioneers an innovative hybrid format combining CTF and Pwn competitions, with all challenges entirely based on modified or redeveloped real-world software. The inaugural event attracted professional teams spanning 15 countries/regions across five continents. As the vanguard of practical cybersecurity competitions, Real World CTF creates a global stage for elite practitioners to exchange cutting-edge techniques while advancing public cybersecurity awareness.
To date, Real World CTF has successfully held 6 editions, drawing over 1,000 elite teams and 10,000 participants worldwide to compete and share a technical feast. The competition has received perfect scores from CTFtime for 4 consecutive years.
Our Journey
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2024
- Relocated Beijing headquarters to the China National Convention Center.
- Awarded "Class B Cybersecurity Emergency Support Unit" by CNCERT.
- SafeLine earned NGINX's first Chinese security module certification.
- Completed 1B+ CNY in financing, embarking on a new journey of independent development.
2014
- In July 2014, Chaitin Tech was officially established in Beijing. Its core team members hailed from Blue-Lotus, a renowned cybersecurity competition and research team at Tsinghua University.
2015
- Dominated domestic hacking competitions, winning nearly all championships.
- Launched penetration testing security services.
- Successfully developed the prototype of next-gen WAF technology, SQL Chop, which was showcased at Black Hat USA and selected for the conference's Arsenal.
2016
- In August 2016, achieved 2nd place globally at DEFCON CTF, a world-renowned cybersecurity competition.
- Released "SafeLine", a self-developed next-gen Web Application Firewall (WAF) powered by intelligent semantic analysis.
- Launched "D-Sensor", a commercial deception system based on real services.
2017
- Established branches and offices in Shanghai, Shenzhen, Nanjing, Wuhan, Hangzhou, Zhengzhou, and other cities to localize services.
- Ranked 3rd globally at Pwn2Own, becoming the only team to crack all three major operating systems (Windows, macOS, Linux) on-site.
- Discovered and alerted the global cybersecurity community to the "WannaCry" crisis.
- SafeLine, the commercial WAF product, was shortlisted in the Gartner Magic Quadrant report.
- Named by The Wall Street Journal as a “Chinese force reshaping global cybersecurity" and won 1st place in Fortune Innovation Awards’ “AI & Robotics” category.
2018
- Launched two new products—"X-Ray Security Assessment System" and "CloudWalker Host Security Management Platform"—forming a multi-layered application security defense ecosystem.
- Hosted the inaugural Real World CTF, a groundbreaking international competition featuring real-world software challenges, attracting top teams from 15 countries/regions.
2019
- SafeLine processed over 100 billion daily requests, ranking among the top in China.
- SafeLine was included in Forrester’s Now Tech: Web Application Firewalls Q4 2019 report.
- Recognized as a “Promising Vendor” in IDC’s China Web Application Security Market report.
- Awarded “Provincial-Level Cybersecurity Emergency Support Unit” by CNCERT.
2020
- Won 1st place at the 4th “Qiangwang Cup” Cybersecurity Challenge.
- Discovered and named “Ghostcat”, one of the year’s top 10 global vulnerabilities.
- Expanded product portfolio to 10+ solutions, forming an intelligent security ecosystem, with revenue surging 270-fold.
- Co-established the “Everbright Technology-Chaitin Technology Joint Security Lab”.
- 66 products across 12 categories were shortlisted for the “Central Government Agencies’ Information Product Procurement Project”.
2021
- Launched “COSMOS Security Analytics and Management Platform”, a next-gen situational awareness product.
- Released a free Apache Log4j2 detection tool, surpassing 10,000 downloads.
- SafeLine ranked 4th in IDC’s 2020 China Hardware WAF Market Share report.
- SafeLine was listed as a “Recommended Cloud Security Vendor” in Gartner’s 2021 ICT report.
2022
- Unveiled “Cloud Atlas” (attack surface management) and “T-ANSWER” (full-traffic analysis), forming a new-gen security framework.
- Won “Best Breakthrough” and “Best Defense” awards at the 3rd Wangding Cup.
- Recognized again as a “Recommended Cloud Security Vendor”in Gartner’s ICT report.
- Showcased mimicry defense research at Black Hat for the third time.
- SafeLine retained 4th place in IDC’s Hardware WAF Market Share report and was named a “WAF Specialist” by Forrester.
2023
- Became a founding technical supporter for China’s NVDB (National Vulnerability Database), awarded “Outstanding Vulnerability Reporting Organization” and “Outstanding Vulnerability Governance Cooperative Unit”.
- Hosted the 5th Real World CTF, attracting 1,725 teams globally with 10,000+ participants.
- Established the “Chaitin Security Emergency Response Center”, upgrading its vulnerability security emergency system.
- Cloud Atlas was selected for “Zhongguancun’s Frontier Tech Enterprise” program.
- Cloud Atlas became the only Chinese vendor in Forrester’s market assessment report.
- SafeLine accelerated cloud market dominance, ranking 2nd in IDC’s private cloud WAF share and 4th in hardware, with the highest growth rate.
2024
- Relocated Beijing headquarters to the China National Convention Center.
- Awarded "Class B Cybersecurity Emergency Support Unit" by CNCERT.
- SafeLine earned NGINX's first Chinese security module certification.
- Completed 1B+ CNY in financing, embarking on a new journey of independent development.
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