DIATEAM recently organized a training for cyber crisis management under real conditions for students of Executive Msc in Cybersecurity from École Polytechnique Executive Education (Institut Polytechnique de Paris).
After having, last year, organized on the premises of Orange in Rennes a cyber crisis management exercise for the students of Executive Msc in Cybersecurity, DIATEAM hosted a new session for twenty-four new students in Brest, at Océania Brest Centre hotel, implementing a new crisis exercise which has allowed trainees to be put under real conditions to cope with an incident specially intended for them and prepared by DIATEAM Red Team.
The Cyber Range and the Red Team: two key elements for a successful crisis exercise
Executive Msc in Cybersecurity is “a program leading to a degree of Institut Polytechnique de Paris to train senior managers who face and will face cybersecurity issues”.
This exercise again made it possible for students to evaluate and improve their crisis management abilities by simulating a cyberattack aiming at a French industrial fictive, and yet so real company.
The DIATEAM team has used the capabilities of its Hybrid Cyber Range, deployed on site, to setup a virtual environment on which they have been able to simulate the architecture to be attacked by our Red Team to allow the trainees’ Blue Team to test and train by looking for the solution to the very real problem they had to face (Test & Train, As You Fight). By integrating such a crisis exercise in the learning paths of École Polytechnique Executive Education students, they are able to add a more practical and concrete dimension to the theoretical part of their learning, and they can evaluate and develop their knowledge in complete immersion, in an “as in real life” cyber crisis situation, totally identical to what they could face in their professional life.
Guillaume Prigent rescuing trainees while Louis Pêche is not looking (Mr Pêche, fake company’s CISO, is obviously not a real asset)
In the same way as when a production system is attacked, they had to react in a fast, efficient and coordinated way to detect and contain the attack: in addition to looking to determine the entry point and the path followed by the intrusion to take appropriate measures, they had to deal with both internal and external communication, reporting obligations, and potential differences of opinion, if not incompatibilities of temperament between them, all while forced to deal with the soon to be legendary Mr Louis Pêche, aka the annoying alter ego of Guillaume Prigent, always closer to retirement but still present CISO with a mood, to say the least.
This week has once again been exhausting for everyone, but students have acquired valuable experience for their professional future.
Many thanks to Yohann Garcia for the coordination, as well as to Orange & Accenture.
“High level expertise and very good teaching skills from speakers.”
“MANY thanks to DIATEAM team for their expertise, their teaching skills, their feedback and all the sharing during this week. A real discovery and a strong DNA. Thanks to everyone. BRAVO.”
“I enjoyed the atmosphere a lot, and also the climate fostered by DIATEAM. I will recommend DIATEAM’s services.”
“I have really appreciated the time and energy deployed to explain to us technical aspects, attack methods, or how to ‘start’ a forensic analysis. I now wish to develop these skills. Many thanks to the whole team, who has a great spirit.”
