Meeting/Event Information

OTM Cyber Wargames are interactive and hands-on training sessions that simulate real-life cyber attacks and help the participants to develop their cyber incident response skills. These exercises involve scenarios in which a cyberattack has compromised critical infrastructure or systems and/or elements of critical networks, causing disruption or a threat to public safety. This training is tailored specially for first responder organizations, emergency call centers, public safety answering points, and state and local government organizations.

Participants are divided into teams with a focus on evenly distributing technical and managerial personnel. Teams are given free rein to respond to the scenarios based on their knowledge, background, and experiences to direct the outcome. All scenarios are designed to encompass multiple objectives for teams to consider, such as identifying the source of the attack, mitigating its effects, and restoring systems and services to normal operation. 

Our Wargames begin with a briefing setting the stage for each scenario. Participants work together to analyze the situation, gather evidence, and develop and implement an incident response plan.  This can involve conducting forensic analysis, identifying and isolating compromised systems, and coordinating with other agencies, stakeholders and media outlets to manage the incident. As the participating teams determine their responses, a live Red Team reacts to each response in kind, creating a continually evolving and unique scenario for all parties.

Throughout the wargames, participants receive feedback and guidance from experienced cyber security professionals and subject matter experts, and exchange actions and reactions with a thinking adversary. Each wargame concludes with a debriefing session, including case studies of actual incidents, and a discussion regarding what participants learned within each team and how they can apply it to their own organizations.

OTM Cyber Wargames help staff in all roles and at any level develop skills necessary to respond to real-life cyber incidents and protect critical infrastructure and systems from cyber threats.

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Please email [email protected] with any questions.

Our appreciation goes to INdigital and OTM Cyber for partnering together to make this class possible.