Dr. Bernhards `BB` Blumbergs is a lead cyber-security expert at the Cyber Incident Response Institution of the Republic of Latvia and the former Ambassador and researcher at the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (NATO CCD COE). In 2024, he completed his postdoctoral research project at the Nara Institute of Science of Technology, in Japan, within the JSPS fellowship on cyber threat intelligence.
His primary focus is on operational technology security. He has a long practical experience with technical red teaming operation execution and leading threat-hunting operations against national critical infrastructure. He is the creator of the world’s largest full-spectrum offensive cyber operation exercise, Crossed Swords. He is a certified exploit researcher and advanced penetration tester (GXPN), industrial cyber security professional (GICSP), and response and industrial defense expert (GRID). He has a solid military background, targeted at developing, administering, and securing wide-area information systems.
Dr. Blumbergs received his Computer Science Ph.D. degree in Cyber Security from Tallinn Technical University in 2019. His dissertation was on the development and execution of offensive cyber operations.
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