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Building Borderless Resilience: Day 1 at CyberWeek@LAC4 2025

The first day of CyberWeek@LAC4 2025 revolved around improving technical skills and capabilities with case studies from the region and Europe as well as explaining the importance of communications when mitigating often very technical threats.

Strengthening Operational Skills and Advancing Technical Capabilities 

From active defense and AI-driven vulnerability management to digital forensics, supply chain validation, OSINT and malware analysis, the first day largely explored broad technical range of advanced cybersecurity. Sessions explained building agentic SOC pipelines, the impact of identity theft to networks and clarified practical differences between pen-testing and red teaming. Moreover, participants gained a practical checklist for validating credibility and sustainability new service provides to determine provider’s level of cybersecurity. Sessions also tackled real-world challenges of validating service provides’ cybersecurity maturity and transforming open-source intelligence from scattered research or basic googling into an institutional capability. 

Estonia’s Approach to National Cyber Resilience 

Two sessions highlighted Estonia’s unique cyber ecosystem and offered participants an insight into one of the world’s most advanced digital societies. Speakers outlined Estonia’s broader cyber landscape as well as explained its early warning system for electronic identity incidents with applicable lessons for LAC countries and demonstrated how long-term strategic investments enable small countries to punch above their weight in cyber resilience. 

Communications as an Integral Part of Cyber Resilience 

Agenda of the first day also addressed the equally critical dimension in cybersecurity: how institutions communicate under pressure and during crises, because effective communication is a core part of cyber resilience. Speakers discussed practical cyber crisis communication workflows for CSIRTs in the LAC region and offered practical guidelines that aligns technical needs with communication needs to avoid common pitfalls and counter disinformation.  

CyberWeek@LAC4 2025 alongside LAC4 0ct0b3rf35t is organised by LAC4 in collaboration with EU CyberNet, EL PACCTO 2.0 and EU-LAC Digital Alliance, funded by the European Union and sponsored by Claro, CrowdStrike, ESET, FACTOR, FIRST, Fluid Attacks and the Netherlands.  

Photos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/eucybernet/albums/72177720330384125 


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