The 7th Cyber Defence Conference opens with full capacity and record attendance

•  The leading cybersecurity event in Spain brings together more than 8,000 professionals in person at Kinépolis, plus another 6,000 online

  The 7th ESPDEF-CERT Cyber Defence Conference, organised this week by the Joint Cyber Command (MCCE) at the Kinépolis cinema in Madrid, in coordination with the 19th STIC CCN-CERT Conference, organised by the National Cryptology Centre (CCN), which is part of the National Intelligence Centre (CNI), kicked off today with a full capacity and record attendance.

These conferences bring together more than 8,000 professionals, with another 6,000 participating online. This record number highlights their role as a benchmark for cybersecurity in Spain, as well as the growing interest in everything related to protecting the national cyberspace.

The Chief of Defence (JEMAD), Admiral General Tedoro E. López Calderón, participated in the panel discussion entitled 'Technological sovereignty and digital autonomy. The future begins here', in which he stated that ‘it is essential to equip ourselves with the defence, exploitation and attack capabilities that will enable us to carry out operations in cyberspace. This will also allow us to achieve sovereignty in other physical and cognitive domains’.

For her part, the director of the CNI, Esperanza Casteleiro Llamazares, gave the welcome speech, and the Secretary of State for Security, the Secretary of State for Telecommunications and the director of the State Agency for Digital Administration accompanied JEMAD on the panel.

Under the slogan ‘A digital shield for an interconnected Spain’, experts from the public, private and academic sectors will spend three days sharing knowledge, experiences and strategies through presentations, round tables and specialised workshops.