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CyberWeek@LAC4 2025 Starts Today

CyberWeek@LAC4 2025 starts today in Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic. Over the course of four days, the annual flagship event hosts several sessions and presentations to build cross-regional cyber resilience to strengthen regional cybersecurity capabilities.

CyberWeek@LAC4 2025, bringing together around 150 cybersecurity experts, practitioners, and policymakers from the region and Europe, flows on three parallel tracks that feature a mix of hands-on workshops and interactive sessions by 40 speakers from 20 countries that allow participants to engage in practical exercises and simulations as well as learn from case studies. Sessions allow participants to enhance their skills and knowledge in handling and responding to cyber incidents, share and learn from national CSIRTs and policymakers from the LAC region and Europe.   

  • Track 1, titled “Incident Response Bootcamp” features sessions from cybersecurity companies, preparedness and response strategies, practical insights to detection engineering, and case studies from the LAC countries and Estonia.  
  • Track 2, titled “Threat Hunters Unite” features sessions on redteaming, OSINT, identity theft and fraud, and malware analysis, illustrated with case studies from Argentina and Aruba.  
  • Track 3, titled “Cyber Defense Engineering” and offered in collaboration with EU EL PACCTO 2.0 project, features sessions on digital forensics, threat analysis and reverse engineering. 

CyberWeek@LAC4 starts with a plenary session that includes opening remarks by Raúl Fuentes Milani, the Ambassador of the European Union to the Dominican Republic; Liina Areng, the President of LAC4;  Guido Gómez Mazara, the President of the Dominican Telecommunications Institute (INDOTEL) and Michael Segura, the Deputy Director of EL PACCTO 2.0. Opening remarks are followed by a high-level panel session titled “Trust on the edge: CSIRTs leading battles on bits and beliefs”.  

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.  

See the full agenda here and follow LAC4 on X and LinkedIn for updates.  


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