NIELIT launched Cyber Kushti on August 15 with a format built around an intentionally imperfect security-assessment package. Teams would receive findings alongside code, architecture information and logs, according to the announcement.
The package was to mix genuine issues with false or duplicate findings and omit some real vulnerabilities. This changes the task: accepting every alert would be as problematic as overlooking a real issue. Teams had to produce and defend a corrected set of priorities.
Providing the same package to participants makes their interpretation of shared evidence central to comparison. It does not prove that any particular AI tool is reliable; the contest was designed to examine the decisions people make about tool output.
All activity was restricted to organisers' controlled environments, not public systems. The launch schedule placed the rounds in September and the final on October 9.
