“CyberChess 2026” Brings Together 900 Participants from 31 Countries to Strengthen Latvia’s Cybersecurity

The conference aims to strengthen Latvia’s readiness to address cyber threats at all levels, from critical infrastructure to individual users, by combining international experience with practical knowledge and professional cooperation. “Our goal is for participants to return to work with practical knowledge and contacts that help strengthen protection and obtain the necessary assistance more quickly,” says Dana Ludviga, an information systems security analyst at CERT.LV and a member of the “CyberChess” program committee. Jānis Sārts, director of the NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence, noted that attacks on systems may be intended to alter their users’ perception of the world. Therefore, alongside verifying the source of information, Tomlinsone urged people to ask themselves whether their desire to believe a received message is causing them to ignore suspicious signs. To make the knowledge gained at the conference available to a wider audience, video recordings of most “CyberChess 2026” presentations are freely available to everyone on the CERT.LV YouTube channel. The conference is organized by CERT.LV, the Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Latvia, the National Cybersecurity Centre, and the registry operator for the .lv country-code top-level domain (NIC), in cooperation with the Latvian chapter of ISACA, the Latvian Internet Association, the University of Latvia’s Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, and the registry operators for the .ee top-level domain (the Estonian Internet Foundation) and .lt (DOMREG).