Cydarm Technologies’ Post

The 2024 AWSN - Australian Women in Security Network Incident Response Competition is done! It was the fourth year we've run this competition - and this year we built another challenging and comprehensive scenario for participants to work through. Each team did an incredible job of investigating the victim network, briefing executives, preparing media statements, and considering the regulatory and legal aspects of the incident. Well done to all of the teams and participants... your willingness to learn, to be challenged, and the breadth of your incident response knowledge and capabilities was on full display throughout this event. And a very big congratulations to the top three placed teams: 🥇 1st Place: Team 14 Kamaea Scott, Nandip Kaur Sagoo, Tandi Chogyel, Sonia Kadyan and Kathy Nguyen. They'll receive SANS vouchers and a mentoring session with the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD). 🥈 2nd Place: Team 20 Lorine Kidiavai, Yeshi Peldon, Olivia Leung, Jacinta Hayward and Shimsha Shetty. Second place prizes include Lumify training vouchers and a one-on-one session with Lynn Moore. 🥉 3rd Place: Team 11 Bonnie Pui Man Cheng, Belinda Lysaght, Chandra Deepti Marri, Jay P and Krithika Venkatarama Subramanian. Third place will receive vouchers from the Cyber Leadership Institute and a mentoring session with Lynn Moore. Industry events like this one are incredibly important as they help to build the cyber skills pipeline here in Australia. We are incredibly grateful for the help and support we received who helped make this event possible, particularly: - The Australian Signals Directorate - who generously sponsored the event! - Our esteemed judges who helped us assess all of the teams and their submissions: Simone V. - Lynn Moore - Shana Uhlmann - Charlotte Davidson (Wood) CISM EMPA - Those who kindly donated prizes: Australian Signals Directorate - SANS Institute - Lumify Group (formerly DDLS Group) - The Expert Leader - Cydarm Technologies for providing teams with access to their cyber response management platform We hope that every team had fun, that you were challenged, and that you walk away from this competition with a sense of achievement, knowledge gained, and even more passion for cyber security (and perhaps you even made some friends along the way too!). Well done! #AWSN2024winner