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Special Keynote: Cyber Incident Simulation

Systems go down. A cyberattack is underway – and you're right in the middle of it. In the exclusive Cyber Incident Simulation, you take on real responsibility as part of the management team and make decisions under time pressure that change the situation in real time. Every choice rewrites what happens next. This is how governments and boards of international corporations prepare for the real thing. How will you decide when it matters most?

Topic

AI & Quantum Security

When & Where

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Thu, 10/29/2026 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM

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Forum D, Booth 7-742

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Details

  • Format:

    it-sa insights

  • Language:

    English

Session description

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Marco Gercke
Director Cybercrime Research Institute
 

The crisis begins without warning.

Imagine this: you're part of the management team at a mid-sized company. The workday has just begun – when the first systems go down. Minutes later, the signs point to something worse: a cyberattack. What happened? Which systems are affected? Who's behind it? And above all: what do you do – right now, in this moment?

The Cyber Incident Simulation is not a lecture, and it's not an off-the-shelf tabletop exercise. It's an exclusive format for a select group of decision-makers who step directly into the events themselves. There's no script to follow – only the si ...