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Dr. Bernhards Blumbergs

Dr. Bernhards Blumbergs is a lead cybersecurity expert at the Information Technology Security Incident Response Institution of the Republic of Latvia (CERT.LV) with responsibilities focusing on national operational technology active cyber defence. Former Technology branch researcher at the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (NATO CCD COE) and the ambassador of the Centre for eight years. He is the creator and former technical director of the innovative full-spectrum offensive cyber operation exercise Crossed Swords. He holds multiple renowned certifications in hacking, penetration testing, exploit development, and industrial control system security. He has a solid military background, a cyber-physical operational security practical mindset, and operational leader for uncrewed vehicle teams. Dr. Blumbergs received his Computer Science PhD degree in Cyber Security from Tallinn Technical University, with his dissertation on specialised cyber red team responsive computer network operations. He completed a JSPS postdoc fellowship at the Nara Institute of Science of Technology (Japan), with his research focusing on cyber threat intelligence data mining and analysis.

ORCID: 0000-0001-9679-6282
22 publications
  1. [1] M. Potapovs, K. Teters, J. Frīdmanis, and B. Blumbergs, "Evaluating National CSIRT Maturity: The Case of CERT.LV", in Cybersecurity in Latvia: Forging Resilience amidst Emerging Threats, M. Potapovs and K. E. Kanasta, Eds. London, UK: Routledge, 2026, ch. 4, pp. 52–73, doi: 10.4324/9781003638858.
  2. [2] B. Blumbergs, "How nations build and defend their cyberspace capabilities", Help Net Security, Nov. 2025.
  3. [3] H. K. Skrodelis, B. Blumbergs, and A. Romanovs, "Threat Scenario Generation for IEC104 Cyber Defense", in Proc. 2024 IEEE Workshop on Advances in Information, Electronic and Electrical Engineering (AIEEE), Riga, Latvia, 2024, pp. 1–8, doi: 10.1109/AIEEE62837.2024.10842278.
  4. [4] B. Blumbergs, "Black Sheep Wall: Towards Multiple Vantage Point-based Information Space Situational Awareness", in Proc. 21st Int. Conf. Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT 2024), SciTePress, Dijon, France, 2024, pp. 641–652, doi: 10.5220/0012836200003767.
  5. [5] B. Blumbergs, "Black Sheep Wall: Clearing the Fog-of-War for Cyber Intelligence Collection", CERT.LV Research Report / Whitepaper, Apr. 2024.
  6. [6] B. Blumbergs, "A Multiple Vantage Point-based Concept for Open-Source Information Space Awareness", in Information and Communication System Security (ICSS) Technical Workshop, IEICE Technical Report, vol. 123, no. 14, ICSS2023-1, Sapporo, Japan, May 2023, pp. 1–6.
  7. [7] B. Blumbergs, Ē. Dobelis, P. Paikens, K. Nesenbergs, K. Solovjovs, and A. Rušiņš, "WearSec: Towards Automated Security Evaluation of Wireless Wearable Devices", in Secure IT Systems (NordSec 2022), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 13700, Cham: Springer, 2022, pp. 311–325, doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-22295-5_17.
  8. [8] A. Uljāns and B. Blumbergs, "Industrial and Automation Control System Cyber Range Prototype for Offensive Capability Development", in Proc. 8th Int. Conf. Information Systems Security and Privacy (ICISSP 2022), SciTePress, 2022, pp. 478–490, doi: 10.5220/0010879500003120.
  9. [9] B. Blumbergs, "Specialized Cyber Red Team Responsive Computer Network Operations", Ph.D. dissertation, Dept. Software Science, School of Information Technologies, Tallinn Univ. of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia, Thesis 25/2019, 2019.
  10. [10] B. Blumbergs, R. Ottis, and R. Vaarandi, "Crossed Swords: A Cyber Red Team Oriented Technical Exercise", in Proc. 18th Eur. Conf. Cyber Warfare and Security (ECCWS 2019), Coimbra, Portugal, Jul. 2019, pp. 37–44.
  11. [11] B. Blumbergs, "Remote Exploit Development for Cyber Red Team Computer Network Operations Targeting Industrial Control Systems", in Proc. 5th Int. Conf. Information Systems Security and Privacy (ICISSP 2019), Prague, Czech Republic, vol. 1, Feb. 2019, pp. 88–99, doi: 10.5220/0007310300880099.
  12. [12] D. Mucci and B. Blumbergs, "TED: A Container based Tool to Perform Security Risk Assessment for ELF Binaries", in Proc. 5th Int. Conf. Information Systems Security and Privacy (ICISSP 2019), Prague, Czech Republic, vol. 1, Feb. 2019, pp. 361–369, doi: 10.5220/0007371603610369.
  13. [13] R. Vaarandi, B. Blumbergs, and M. Kont, "An Unsupervised Framework for Detecting Anomalous Messages from Syslog Log Files", in 2018 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2018), Taipei, Taiwan, Apr. 2018, pp. 1–6, doi: 10.1109/NOMS.2018.8406283.
  14. [14] B. Blumbergs and R. Vaarandi, "Bbuzz: A Bit-aware Fuzzing Framework for Network Protocol Systematic Reverse Engineering and Analysis", in 2017 IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM 2017), Baltimore, MD, USA, Oct. 2017, pp. 707–712, doi: 10.1109/MILCOM.2017.8170785.
  15. [15] M. Kont, M. Pihelgas, K. Maennel, B. Blumbergs, and T. Lepik, "Frankenstack: Toward Real-time Red Team Feedback", in 2017 IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM 2017), Baltimore, MD, USA, Oct. 2017, pp. 400–405, doi: 10.1109/MILCOM.2017.8170852.
  16. [16] A. Farar, H. Bahsi, and B. Blumbergs, "A Case Study About the Use and Evaluation of Cyber Deceptive Methods Against Highly Targeted Attacks", in 2017 Int. Conf. on Cyber Incident Response, Coordination, Containment & Control (Cyber Incident 2017), London, UK, Jun. 2017, pp. 1–7, doi: 10.1109/CYBERINCIDENT.2017.8054640.
  17. [17] B. Blumbergs, M. Pihelgas, M. Kont, O. Maennel, and R. Vaarandi, "IPv6 Vulnerability", Intelligence Notification No. 7/2017, Series: Trend CYBER BITS, The Hague, Netherlands, Apr. 2017.
  18. [18] M. N. Schmitt, Ed., "Tallinn Manual 2.0 on the International Law Applicable to Cyber Operations", Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2017 (Contributing Legal/Technical Expert: B. Blumbergs).
  19. [19] B. Blumbergs, M. Pihelgas, M. Kont, O. M. Maennel, and R. Vaarandi, "Creating and Detecting IPv6 Transition Mechanism-Based Information Exfiltration Covert Channels", in Secure IT Systems (NordSec 2016), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 10014, Cham: Springer, 2016, pp. 85–100, doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-47560-8_6.
  20. [20] R. Vaarandi, B. Blumbergs, and E. Çalışkan, "Simple Event Correlator - Best Practices for Creating Scalable Configurations", in 2015 IEEE Int. Multi-Disciplinary Conf. on Cognitive Methods in Situation Awareness and Decision (CogSIMA 2015), Orlando, FL, USA, Mar. 2015, pp. 96–100, doi: 10.1109/COGSIMA.2015.7108181.
  21. [21] B. Blumbergs, P. Brangetto, L. Lindström, M. Maybaum, A.-M. Osula, M. N. Pissanidis, H. Rõigas, M. Veenendaal, and T. U. Väisänen, "Introduction", in 2015 7th Int. Conf. on Cyber Conflict (CyCon 2015): Architectures in Cyberspace, Tallinn, Estonia, May 2015, pp. 1–4, doi: 10.1109/CYCON.2015.7158463.
  22. [22] B. Blumbergs, "Technical Analysis of Advanced Threat Tactics Targeting Critical Information Infrastructure", CERT.LV / CCDCOE Technical Report, Riga, Latvia, 2014.
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