Adam Bannister December 17, 2021 15:57 UTC
Update time: December 17, 2021 16:20 UTC
SANS Institute’s latest Grid NetWars competition involves 250 security experts from Ukraine
Cyber security professionals from all over Ukraine have solved large-scale cyber attack simulations, echoing the hugely destructive real-world attack on the country’s power grid in 2015.
49 teams of 250 participants competed virtual or face-to-face at a venue in Kiev to accumulate points in repair attacks after virtual energy providers suffered several unexplainable system failures.
Within five and a half hours, security professionals from the Ukrainian public and private sectors and higher education institutions tried to determine the nature of the malicious network intrusion before expelling the intruder and restoring the system to normal operation.
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The winning team is in Kiev Beleza Security Group, And network security engineer Dmitry Kozhevin is the best individual contestant.
The competition was held on December 2nd and is the latest Mesh network warfare A championship from the US information security training organization SANS Institute. The most recent championships have also been held in Singapore, India, Japan and Australia.
The event was also organized by the Cybersecurity Critical Infrastructure Project of the National Security and Defense Commission of Ukraine, the National Special Communications and Information Protection Agency, and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
‘Close to reality’
“560,000 new malicious programs are detected every day in the world, so it is necessary to continuously improve the qualifications of cybersecurity experts and’upgrade’ their skills,” said Ihor Malchenyuk, head of cybersecurity critical cybersecurity regulatory assistance and institutional development at the U.S. Agency for International Development. Infrastructure for the Ukrainian project.
“Competitions such as Grid NetWars not only provide the opportunity to practice each expert’s knowledge and skills individually, but also provide an opportunity to train joint interactions,” he added. “After all, the training conditions are as close to reality as possible.”
Tim Conway, technical director of the SANS Industrial Control System (ICS) and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) project, guided event participants with the help of two other US information security experts.
‘Practice their way of playing’
“Grid NetWars is a product that has existed for many years and has been used in national exercises since its creation,” Conway said Drink it every day.
“It is also used by practitioners around the world who participate in specific events on critical infrastructure or industrial control systems, such as the SANS ICS Summit, where the Grid NetWars competition is held in the evening after the course.”
The latest Ukrainian event successfully allowed “participants to face real-world challenges, develop skills, access technical tools, and most importantly, through cooperation to “practice their way of playing”, and provide opportunities to work together in a team. It’s like in a real-world incident response,” he added.
Conway helped to investigate the 2015 Three Ukrainian power distribution centers This caused approximately 225,000 residents to lose power for up to 6 hours.
The country’s energy grid is Was hit again A year later, the then President of Ukraine Peter Poroshenko stated that the recent thousands of attacks on state institutions proved that the Russian security services Launch a cyber war Oppose the country.
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