The Cybersecurity conference CyberChess 2024

The CyberChess conference is a cornerstone of cybersecurity events within the Baltic states. It brings together a diverse array of security stakeholders, experts, ISPs, domain industry representatives, and other interested parties to discuss and examine the latest trends, issues, and innovations in cybersecurity.

“Throughout the past few years we have seen growth in attacks, their sophistication as well as in the level of political support and importance of cybersecurity. This makes events such as CyberChess an important platform not only for knowledge sharing but also establishing new partnerships.” /B.Kaškina, CERT.LV General manager/

CyberChess 2024 took place from October 1st to 3rd in Riga, Latvia. More than 50 speakers from nearly 20 countries shared their research and experiences over the course of three days in the following cybersecurity-related areas:

• Protection of critical information and infrastructure
  
• Cyber threat intelligence
  
• Ransomware, its triage, and defence
  
• Medicine, nanotechnology, and bio-hacking
  
• Artificial intelligence and machine learning
  
• Alliances and their importance in strengthening security in the Euro-Atlantic area (from strategic, operational, and legal perspectives)
  

Programme and video recordings: https://cyberchess.lv/

On the first day of the conference, October 1st, there were 11 educational and practical workshops where participants had the opportunity to learn more about incident response, drone forensics, ransomware triage, threat hunting, hacktivist group profiling, National Cybersecurity Law, artificial intelligence, and other cybersecurity-related topics, including a security awareness adventure - Escape Room “Hack The Hacker”.

The second and third days of the conference (October 2nd-3rd) took place on three stages:

• #CyberChess dedicated to strategic and political issues;
  
• #CyberShock focused on practical and deeply technical demonstrations;
  
• #CyberStory covered innovations and experience sharing.
  

Bringing together over 500 attendees on-site and engaging with over 3000 participants online, the conference serves as a dynamic platform for fostering collaboration, knowledge exchange, and networking among Baltic cybersecurity professionals.

This year, the CTF competition were organized before the conference on September 30th - October 1st, and the winners are published on the conference website https://cyberchess.lv/.

The conference is organised by CERT.LV, the Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Latvia and National Cybersecurity Centre of Latvia with the ISACA Latvian Chapter and Institute of Mathematics and Computer Sciene University of Latvia.

The conference is co-financed by the European Union and supported by the Latvian National Coordination Centre of the European Cybersecurity Competence Centre (NCC-LV). Conference partners are SIA “Latvijas Mobilais telefons”, SIA “Tet”, SIA “Cyber Circle”, VAS “Latvijas Valsts radio un televīzijas centrs”, ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names un Numbers), Recorded Future, ESET Digital Security, Squalio, CLICO Baltic, Kanādas vēstniecība Latvijā, VMRay un CloudFlare.