Join “The Battle for the Golden Ticket” webinar about managing IT Security – April 8 – 2 to 4 PM CET

Major Cities of Europe (https://majorcities.eu/) is pleased to announce the Cyber security Webinar “The Battle for the Golden Ticket”. It is the EU City ISAC I4C+ virtual version of its 2024 VAUBAN Tabletop Exercise. The webinar is scheduled  on Monday 8 April 2024 from 2 pm to 4 pm CET.

Registration is open to individuals interested in cyber security for local administrations. The event should be of particular interest to elected public officials, managers of essential services for regional and local administrations, as well as IT (Security) leaders.

Key learning points will include understanding how easy a security  breach can happen, how damaging such a breach can be, and how we can prepare for when this happens – because it is not “whether” this will happen, but “when”, and those least prepared are usually the first to be impacted.

The “Golden Ticket” gives administrator level access to all key IT systems of an organisation (including infrastructure). A person with the “Golden Ticket” can “turn off” any IT asset, and / or prevent anyone from accessing them. A threat actor with a “Golden Ticket” is a nightmare to any organisation.

Guided by two local administrations and supported by cyber experts and white hackers, we will jointly and interactively go through the story of the frantic fight of the Blue Team of a regional administration to prevent the confirmed initial breach of a professional Red Team from reaching the “Golden Ticket” (elevated privileges on all core systems) and the harrowing experience of local administrations faced by the potential shutdown of core financial services. At the end, participants will also explore how peer collaboration might have made this scenario less threatening, how principles of asymmetric warfare can help us identify pragmatic preventative actions, and why advances in Artificial Intelligence are making “Goliath” even more powerful…

The agenda of the event (120′) is:

1.       Introduction (10′).

2.       Act 1: The Alert – Notification of the potential breach and the decision whether to go offline or not  (20′).

3.       Act 2: The Shut-Down – How to go offline and what essential services are impacted (20′).

4.       Act 3: The Crisis – How to maintain impacted essential services offline (20′).

5.       Act 4: The Recovery – Managing the challenges of returning to online services (20′).

6.       Lessons Learned and How Peer Collaboration can help (20′).

7.       Wrap-Up (10′).

Attached you  can find the Webex calendar invitation to the online seminar.

The coordinator of the webinar is Oliver Schwabe  | ISAC for Cities oliver.schwabe@isac4cities.eu. Please contact him for further details on connecting to the event.

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Regards

Giorgio Prister
President of Major Cities of Europe
www.majorcities.eu