GeekWeek 11

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Detection and Deception

GeekWeek provides an opportunity for participants to take few days away from their day-to-day and work with public sector, industry, critical infrastructure and international partners to explore innovative ideas in the cyber security space.

Venue

Photo of Vanier Facility

Canadian Centre for Cyber Security
1625 Vanier Parkway, Ottawa
ON K1L 7P1

Event date

May 27 to June 5, 2026

If you’re interested in future Geek events, reach out to contact@cyber.gc.ca.

 

Registration information

Given the technical nature of the workshop, GeekWeek is an invitation-only event.

Keynote speaker

To be confirmed.

Participating organizations

To be confirmed.

Topics and themes

The following topics and themes have been proposed for GeekWeek 11.

  • Cyber physical systems
    • Industrial spectrum monitoring
    • Industrial control systems and operational technology security for energy
    • Early warning threat sharing for industrial control systems and operational technology security environments
    • Connected vehicules
    • Hunting the hunters
    • Firmware security
  • Cyber toolboxes and analytical environments
    • Memory analysis
    • Industrial control systems honeypot
    • Home modems and routers protection
    • Internet scanner
    • Digital Forensics and Incident Response in Cybersecurity
  • Cyber threat hunting
    • Detecting and decoding advanced persistent threat (APT) malware
    • Malicious infrastructure and threat hunting
    • Cross-organization data harvesting and analytics
    • It’s all about money
  • Cyber threat analytics
    • Cyber security posture
    • Cyber threat storytelling (a.k.a it’s all about graphs!)
    • Using large language models for malware analysis
    • Malicious email identification and triage enhancement with large language models (LLMs)
    • Cyber news aggregation and summarization with large language models
    • Automated signature generation
    • AI-powered fraud prevention for Canadians
    • Monitoring, analytics and scaling security in the cloud
  • Open-source solutions: Giving back to the cyber security community
    • Cyber range development
    • Cyber tools development: Borealis/Clue, Chameleon/Beever, Howler
  • Cyber defence turnkey solutions
    • Cyber defense Fly-Away kit
    • Secure operations centre (SOC) in a box
      • Platform
      • Pipeline for data collection
      • Analytics
      • Machine learning-based analytics

For more general information about GeekWeek, visit the GeekWeek page.

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