Cyber Dawg 2026: Georgia's Premier Live-Fire Cybersecurity Exercise

Join cybersecurity professionals from across the State of Georgia for Cyber Dawg 2026, a week-long live-fire exercise designed to strengthen incident response skills through realistic cyber-attack scenarios. This event combines technical training and live-fire cyber defense exercises to inform effective strategies that can be applied immediately within your operational environment and enhance skills such as: Incident detection and analysis, Threat hunting and investigation, Log analysis and alert validation, Cyber threat intelligence sharing, Team-based incident response, Decision-making under pressure. Participants will spend the week immersed in realistic cyber defense simulations and collaborate with peers to successfully defend simulated networks against active cyber threats, monitor systems, investigate alerts, and respond to incidents, conduct threat hunting and forensic analysis activities, collaborate with teammates and partner organizations, and participate in intelligence sharing and operational briefings. The event uses a complex sandbox environment with access to real-world internet traffic, including captured IP blocks from U.S. adversaries, such as Iran, China, Russia, North Korea, providing a real-world cyber threat landscape.