"The purpose of this exercise is in what is our genesis and in what we were innovators in Portugal, which is to teach how to attack to give more awareness of the defense", explained today to the Lusa agency Rui Silva, from UbiNet.

According to this teacher, "four or five years ago" that, within the scope of SimSic, the "House of Crime" was held, that is, "an exercise in responding to incidents and forensic analysis".

"It is an exercise that is already consolidated, but that is an exercise in the final stages of cybercrime", he said.

This year, the exercise "will be different", simulating "all stages of the cybercrime process", from preparatory actions to penetration testing phases, incident response and collection of evidence at the crime scene respecting the entire chain of custody, and, finally, digital forensics.

For Thursday, the first phase of the exercise is scheduled, with the realization of a simulation "in real environment", where the six participating teams will have to surprise a 'pseudohacker' in "flagrante delicto", isolate the individual and carry out the collection of evidence at the crime scene, always respecting the chain of custody.

The teams will be observed and evaluated by IPBeja teachers and by former inspectors of the Judiciary Police with experience in similar real situations.

In the second phase of the exercise, which takes place over three weeks, penetration tests will take place, where the participating teams will attack a set of equipment in various scenarios, and a forensic analysis challenge to one of the attacked equipment.

In both phases, the initiative will have the collaboration of three of the world's largest cybersecurity companies: CheckPoint, Palo Alto and Fortinet.

According to Rui Silva, this exercise meets the objective of the master's degree in Computer Security Engineering at IPBeja, launched in 2011 and which aims to "teach how to attack systems, so that people are aware of how to defend themselves".

"Learning security policies, processes, technologies and architectures is useless if we do not know how the acts are performed", he justified.

The 14th SimSic will take place in the building of the common services of IPBeja and has as its theme "Artificial Intelligence and CyberIntelligence".

The symposium program, organized by the UbiNet Laboratory of IPBeja, also includes lectures with several Portuguese and foreign experts, 'workshops', challenges, the launch of the Cybersecurity Competence Center of Alentejo and a wine tasting.

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