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Digital Qalqan Wins the NCSIC 2024 Cyber Exercises

Winners of the NCSIC 2024 Cyber Exercises

Our SOC team became the winner of the NCSIC 2024 cyber exercises by protecting the infrastructure of the Ministry of Education and successfully attacking an IT company. The exercises confirmed the high professionalism of DQ specialists.

Digital Qalqan LLP is proud to announce that the team of the Digital Qalqan Security Operations Center (SOC) took first place in the cyber exercises organized by the National Coordination Center for Information Security (NCSIC), which were held on August 19–20, 2024.

During the exercises, our Blue Team successfully protected the virtual infrastructure of the Ministry of Education, identifying and investigating 100% of the realized risks. This demonstrated the team’s exceptional skills and high readiness to respond to modern cyber threats.

At the same time, the DQ Red Team successfully carried out attacks against the virtual infrastructure of an IT company, realizing two risks.

These cyber exercises became a unique experience for us, providing an opportunity to work with new tools such as SIEM Splunk and NTA Arkime. Our team demonstrated flexibility and professionalism, effectively adapting to new conditions and challenges.

These results highlight the strong professional skills of our specialists and their ability to respond quickly to information security incidents.

We would like to thank all our partners for their cooperation, which allowed us to improve the quality of information security event monitoring and strengthen collaboration in incident response.

The results achieved confirm our readiness to continue protecting critical infrastructure and ensuring a high level of security.

Link to the Bluescreen news article: https://bluescreen.kz/kvoiki-iest-komu-zashchishchat-iest-nad-chiem-porabotat/