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LAC4 Enhances Jamaica’s Cyber Resilience with Advanced Cybersecurity Training

LAC4 organised an online advanced cybersecurity operations training for Jamaica’s public sector cybersecurity professionals from 23 to 26 February. Training focused on building rapid detection, analysis and response capabilities by leveraging open-source tools for threat detection and response.

“Being able to rapidly detect, analyse and respond to security incidents in critical for organizational and national resilience in an increasingly complex cyber threat landscape. There is a significant, and often untapped value, in using open-source platforms in addition to commercial alternatives as they can provide cost-efficiency and high adaptability. The training was designed to understand and learn these tools to enhance Jamaica’s computer security incident response teams abilities to more proactively monitor, investigate and mitigate cyber threats using proven open-source technologies.” – César Moliné, LAC4 Regional Manager.  

Participants gained hands-on practical operational experience across the full incident lifecycle, from detection to response and investigation. Participants learned how to set up working environments, visualise and interpret data as well as integrate advanced network monitoring tools for comprehensive threat visibility. Through sandbox-based malware analysis and structured threat hunting exercise, participants developed abilities to analyse malware behavior and identify threat indicators.  

Training further strengthened digital forensics and incident response (DFIR) capabilities, enhanced threat intelligence and open-source intelligence (OSINT) for gathering intelligence from social media and messaging platforms and translated theory into practice through incident response playbooks and simulated exercises.  

The session opened with welcome remarks delivered by Luca Lo Conte, Programme Officer at the European Union Delegation to Jamaica; Godphey Sterling, JP, Director of the Cyber Incident Response Team Division at the National Security Operations Centre of Jamaica; and César Moliné, LAC4 Regional Manager. 

Training was conducted by EU CyberNet Expert Roberto Martínez, and training was organised in cooperation with Jamaica Cyber Incident Response Team (JaCIRT). 


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