[*] 2025 Workshops

Schedule

Workshops will take place on the 21st of May. Full schedule:

10:00 - 11:30 Cracking the Code: Secrets to Landing Your First Cybersecurity Job - By Sigita Andrulionytė

Learn the essential skills and strategies to kickstart your career in cybersecurity. Sigita Andrulionytė will share her insights and practical advice on how to stand out in the competitive job market.


11:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 - 16:30 Security Analyst Workshop – Navigation to Investigation - By Marvin Ngoma and Thomas Jehn (Elastic Security)

Analyst Workshop is aimed at providing participants with common workflows and analysis that a security analyst would leverage daily.

Module 1: Data Navigation and Visualization
- Discover Data: power of a normalization Schema and free text search
- Lens: Explore security data with Visualization building
- Security Dashboards and Reporting

Module 2: Guided Investigations
- Investigate alerts and events with triage
- Guided threat hunting with data exploration
- Host Analytics
- Network Analytics
- User Analytics

Module 3: Threat Detection and Investigation
- Alert Triage
- Timelining of events and alerts
- Event Analyzer for chronological alert investigations
- Session Viewer
- Case management workflows to collaborate and aggregate investigation findings

Module 4: Dark Radiation Ransomware Investigation
- Day in the life of an Analyst
- Scenario brings together all the concepts learned in modules 1-3

Workshop Takeaways
- Ability to leverage the Elastic Security for Incident Response
- Ability to understand common workflows for cyber security tasks
- Ability to create security focused visualizations
- Ability to take a proactive approach with Elastic Security
- Ability to apply comprehensive incident response with a case management workflow

Who should attend?
- SOC Analysts / Engineers / Administrators
- Incident Responders & Threat Hunters

Attendee Prerequisites
- Eyes on Glass, Analyst Experience with Elastic Security or any other SIEM or Security Analytics Solutions
- An understanding of current security operations procedures
- An understanding of currently available data sources, desired integrations (other SIEM, UEBA, SOAR, etc)


16:30 - 17:00 Coffee Break

17:00 - 18:30 Security Capture the Flag – A Threat Hunting CTF - Marvin Ngoma and Thomas Jehn (Elastic Security)

During this interactive CTF you’ll get hands-on with Security experience - competing against fellow security practitioners in the hunt for threats. Within a real attack scenario, participants will hone their security skills, interact with fellow practitioners, and experience threat hunting and SecOps workflows.

What will you learn?

  • Learn about SIEM features and capabilities
  • Immediately put your new knowledge into practice
  • Hunt and investigate within a CTF exercise based on a real attack scenario
  • Win some cool prizes 🏆
Top 3 CTF winners will be awarded with a prize, this is an individual challenge; no teams.

What will you need?
  • A computer with a fast internet connection and a modern browser (e.g., Chrome)
  • An understanding of endpoint and network fundamentals is required.
  • Experience working in an IT or security operations role such as SOC or incident response analyst is strongly preferred.
  • Experience using a SIEM and knowledge of adversary tradecraft are a bonus.

Come at least 5 minutes before workshop start to set up and prepare.

Location

Enter through the main venue entrance and our volunteers will guide you to the workshops room.

Preparation

No prep is needed, just take your own laptop. WiFi access point will be provided.

Food

Coffee, tea, snacks and water will provided. No lunch will be provided. You can either order food delivery or go outside to get some lunch.

Registration

Only BSides Vilnius 2025 holders are allowed to register. Each workshop has a maximum capacity of 50 participants. Registration form is available here:

https://bsidesvilnius.lt/workshops-registration