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CybersecurityI tackled buffer overflows, reversed Android apps, cracked crypto puzzles, and …
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- Howest’s ongoing commitment to world-class cybersecurity training took center stage again as six lecturers from the Cyber Security program joined forces with experts from Latvia, Luxembourg and Belgium in one of NATO’s most intensive simulations: the Locked Shields exercise, hosted by the Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (CCDCOE). Now in its fifth year of participation, the Howest team shared their firsthand experiences at a special evening talk at Howest Bruges.
-Locked Shields is no ordinary simulation. It is a full-scale, live-fire cyber defence exercise involving more than 6,000 machines and a narrative scenario so detailed it includes geopolitics, disinformation and even fictional countries. This year, the Blue Team 03 (our team) defended a simulated nation’s critical infrastructure including power plants, satellites, 5G networks and banking systems, all while under constant attack from a coordinated Red Team using automated scripts and over 28,000 attacks across two days.
-And yes, every team (Red, Blue, Yellow, White) uses Ansible. For everything.
-What do you do when a rogue process might be malware, or maybe just a poorly named service? What happens when your teammate refuses to act unless something is “officially malicious”? The team faced cultural clashes, communication breakdowns and stress-testing of both systems and people.
-The exercise required more than technical fixes. It demanded communication with simulated commanders, media and public stakeholders. Reporting became just as important as patching. It taught participants how to translate technical impact into real-world consequences. Not “port 8443 unreachable”, but “our air defence system is degraded, and we cannot fly planes”.
-A new but powerful presence in the simulation was the Black Team, a rapid-response unit deployed when problems became too complex for any single team. Acting like special forces, they jumped in when incidents crossed team boundaries or demanded unconventional solutions. Their mission was to find out what was happening, assess the impact and suggest fast, creative responses. Introduced just last year, this team quickly proved its value again in 2025. They even embraced the role with style — “you can wear sunglasses inside” became their unofficial motto.
-Their presence underlined a critical lesson: not every problem fits neatly within a team’s silo. Real-world defence requires flexibility, speed and lateral thinking.
-There were plenty of mishaps. Misfired scripts, team mix-ups, and one case where a DNS setup from a previous year was reused by mistake. Someone tried renaming cut to shutdown, breaking essential operations until it was fixed. Systems rebooted into chaos, a manual was uploaded to public GitHub, and the team had to quickly learn the difference between symbolic links and real binaries.
From detecting malware with Velociraptor and Q9, to encountering teammates who took orders literally, the learning was intense. One participant noted that while Belgian and Luxembourg teams prioritized knowledge sharing, others preferred strict protocol. This highlighted cultural differences and the importance of interpersonal skills.
-The biggest lesson? You are never fully prepared. Every iteration of Locked Shields is different. But each one sharpens not only your skills, but also your ability to function as a team under extreme conditions.
-This experience directly impacts the classroom. Inspired by the exercise, Howest is introducing new hands-on courses like “Glutamine” in semester five. Students will be dropped into realistic broken networks, with misconfigurations, fake firewalls and simulated threats. It is chaos, but controlled. And that is the point.
-As one speaker said: “You don’t win Locked Shields. You just survive it better than the rest.”
-The exercise teaches more than just cybersecurity. It builds trust. It proves that knowing your teammates can be as important as knowing the tools. Whether that comes from a shared flight or a pre-exercise barbecue, it all matters when the pressure hits.
-Want to see how cyber defence works in real life? This is it.
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