Mega drive gamification

Westcon Mega Drive is an interactive, gamified sales event offering increased engagement in a competitive environment.

Ideal for customers, prospects and partners
Our events offer the chance to put the solutions through their paces in a safe, anonymous environment. Lasting between one and two hours, they are ideal for Cybersecurity users, Systems Engineers and those responsible for making technical comparisons before a purchase. Users will need some basic hands-on experience of any security tech and terminology.

No cost involved
All Westcon Mega Drive events are free of charge to our partner community and their prospects. That's a saving of up to $200 per person.

Register now and win
This is a competitive event, so register now for your chance to win some fantastic prizes, including a retro Sega® Mega Drive™ games console.

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Upcoming events

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Upcoming events

Capture the Flag

4th October 10:00 - 12:00
10th January - 10:00 - 12:00

Beat the competition and get up to speed with common web and API security vulnerabilities by hacking first and winning later.

Example agenda

30 minutes introduction to vendor and scenario that the 'player' will need to attack or defend against
60 minutes gamified session – you will be issued a number of scenarios and it is your job to use the tech to complete your mission
30 minutes wrap and close – review of the mission, who performed the best, key learnings and take aways

Capture the Flag

MISSION (IM)POSSIBLE – NGFW

15 September 10am-11:30am CET

Constant travel to different locations means you’re forced to share confidential mission information across your organisation’s network. Your enemies are targeting the network from all angles to get some intel, and your mission now is to use NGFW and PAN-OS to hunt down and halt the threats before they touch your data.

Capture the Flag

MISSION (IM)POSSIBLE – Cortex XDR

4 October 10am-11:30am CET

Your organisation has recently developed a major patented product which could be dangerous in the wrong hands. Your enemies are out to obtain the patent and steal the product from you. Use Cortex XDR to identify and eliminate the incoming threats to the company network and protect the product from exploitation.

Capture the Flag

MISSION (IM)POSSIBLE – Prisma Cloud

19 October 10am-11:30am CET

To protect the identity of your organisation’s members and clients, you’ve been recruited to identify the security issues and misconfigurations within the current public cloud environment. Can you be the one to identify the highest number of issues and prevent exposure of your organisation using Prisma Cloud?

Capture the Flag

14 September 10am-12:00 CEST
19 October 10:00-12:00 CET
23 November 10:00-12:00 CET

Beat the competition and get up to speed with common web and API security vulnerabilities first and winning later

Example agenda

30 minutes introduction to vendor and scenario that the 'player' will need to attack or defend against
60 minutes gamified session – you will be issued a number of scenarios and it is your job to use the tech to complete your mission
30 minutes wrap and close – review of the mission, who performed the best, key learnings and take aways

Threat Hunting

4 October 11:00-12:30 CEST
14 December 11:00-12:30 CEST

Get ready to roll up your sleeves and go on a hunt for adversaries with CrowdStrike – our very own elite team of threat hunting experts – hunting relentlessly to see and stop the most sophisticated threats.

In this workshop, you’ll have the opportunity to learn the secrets to effective threat hunting and to put theory into practice, using real-world stealthy attacks.

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By registering, we may follow up to ask whether you are evaluating the solution as part of an upcoming purchase and if you require more information. Your contact data will not be sold or transferred to third parties but we may ask if you would like to be introduced to a specialist partner.