Available Workshops:

  1. Network security, Management and Monitoring Workshop
  2. Cyber Security Workshop
  3. Laos Peering Technical Aspects Workshop

Network security, Management and Monitoring Workshop

From: 5th to 7th of November 2025
Where: Faculty of Engineering, Vientiane, Laos
Capacity: 30 participants

Registration CLOSED

Course overview:

In today’s rapidly evolving IT landscape, ensuring a secure and efficient network infrastructure is critical. This workshop will provide practical skills and knowledge for securing networks, managing complex systems, and effectively monitoring performance to minimize downtime and risks.

Course outline:

  • Network security, a broad topic that affects many aspects relating to end-users, applications, and infrastructure. This workshop will examine key concepts, protocols, policies, and practices to protect data and assets from potential attacks or abuse. It will also cover network infrastructure security with a focus on establishing robust, stable networks with secure routing. This workshop will also discuss security operations and examine common security incidents/breaches, countermeasures and mitigation tools.
  • Network management and monitoring, a critical process for ensuring the reliability, performance, and security of the network infrastructure. It includes managing network devices, monitoring their performance, resolving alerts and securing the network from threats. 

This workshop dives deep into network security and network management and monitoring concepts and protocols. Participants will explore different security and monitoring tools, including security controls, configuration management, and network telemetry.

Target Audience:

This workshop is intended for network administrators, system administrators and security professionals who are interested to learn about the latest technologies and best practices in network security and NMM, and would like to gain further understanding of network and security operations.

Prerequisites:

It is assumed that participants have a basic understanding of:

  • network operations, Internet technologies, OSI reference model and TCP/IP
  • basic command line (CLI) skills.

We recommend the following Academy courses be completed before the start of the tutorial:

Routing Fundamentals: https://academy.apnic.net/en/course/routing-fundamentals-course

Network security fundamentals: https://academy.apnic.net/en/webinar-courses/network-security-fundamentals/

Cyber Security Workshop

From: 7th November 2025
Where: Faculty of Engineering, Vientiane, Laos
Capacity: 30 participants

Registration CLOSED

Course overview:

A full-day training with comprehensive hands-on experience in both offensive and defensive cybersecurity, covering web application vulnerability exploitation, remediation strategies, security monitoring with SIEM, and incident response techniques culminating in a practical capstone exercise.

Laos Peering Technical Aspects Workshop

From: 31st of October to 2nd November 2025
Where: Faculty of Engineering, Vientiane, Laos
Capacity: 20 participants

Registration INVITE ONLY

Course overview:

The Laos Peering Technical Aspects Workshop is part of the Internet Society’s Peering Roadshows and Workshops, designed to help local Internet communities enhance connectivity, reliability, and affordability. This workshop will bring together engineers from Tier 1 and Tier 2 operators and other organizations in Laos to share knowledge, discuss best practices , and foster collaboration.

Target Audience:

  • ISPs, mobile network operators, and data center operators
  • Technical Managers
  • Government and regulatory representatives