Cyber Everywhere All at Once

4-Day Cybersecurity Masterclass: From Vulnerable Code to Boardroom Meeting

A hands-on masterclass building practical cybersecurity skills from technical implementation to executive communication

April 17-18 & April 24-25, 2026 • Base42, Skopje • Only 12 of 20 spots remaining • €500 Early Bird & student rate • Late Registration (€600) applies in final 3 weeks
Cyber Everywhere All At Once

Why This Masterclass Works

Build practical cybersecurity leadership capabilities through hands-on experience with expert mentorship.

Learn by Doing with Expert Guidance

Work through real security challenges using simulated organizations with experienced practitioners guiding every step. You'll make decisions, see consequences, and understand why certain approaches work better than others.

Compliance Through Competence

Instead of memorizing checklists, you'll understand the underlying processes that satisfy regulatory frameworks like NIS2, ISO 27001, and DORA. When you know how to do the work properly, compliance becomes a natural byproduct.

Bridge Technical and Business Worlds

Practice translating security concepts into business language and learn to communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels. You'll leave confident in presenting to both technical teams and executives.

Immediate Practical Application

Take home proven templates, frameworks, and decision-making processes you can implement immediately. Everything you practice here transfers directly to your real-world challenges.

Feedback from Previous Workshops

The Day After Production, Dec 2024: "I really liked the idea of role-playing as both an attacker and a defender, simulating real-world application problems and company workflow challenges. I will highly recommend it to everyone!"

Cybersecurity Masterclass, Feb 2025: "The course is brilliant. The speaker spoke from experience he gathered over the past years, and most of the use cases are really realistic to the point that it is quite scary to be an infosec manager. He's not only warning us many things that can go wrong, but also telling us how to make things right. Simulation, practice, even the management roleplay he did is impeccable as many upper management didn't actually know what even their company is doing."

Custom Workshop, June 2025: "I found the hands-on work with practical examples to be the most valuable part."

The Day After Production, April 2025: "The concept of explaining the theory, followed by hands on implementing that information and session for how to prevent that in the code implementation was valuable itself. Another thing is having challenges to solve in relatively short period, also allowing time to discuss them with other members I consider as valuable."

Cybersecurity Masterclass, Feb 2025: "It was all superb, the practice stimulation of all the modules and case studies was an excellent learning opportunity for me. I was a new experience for me as i have been engaged in theoritical learning so far with out any practice or practical thing that is way different from theoritical learning only."

Cybersecurity Masterclass, Nov 2025: "The free-flow of information, complete openness of the trainers and real-world examples. No sugar-coating"

Who Should Attend?

  • ✓ Software engineers transitioning to security leadership
  • ✓ Product managers needing deeper security understanding
  • ✓ Technical project managers handling security initiatives
  • ✓ Operations/DevOps engineers responsible for security processes
  • ✓ Compliance professionals needing technical implementation knowledge
  • ✓ Consultants adding security expertise
  • ✓ Technical founders/CTOs at growing companies
  • ✓ Anyone bridging technical and business security decisions

Core Learning Objectives

  • ✓ Build secure products and assess security posture
  • ✓ Detect, organize, and respond to security incidents
  • ✓ Implement business continuity and disaster recovery
  • ✓ Conduct full-blown risk assessments
  • ✓ Evaluate and manage vendor security risks
  • ✓ Communicate security practices to stakeholders
  • ✓ Meet regulatory requirements (NIS2, ISO 27001, DORA)
  • ✓ Create adaptable security frameworks for your organization

Meet the Speakers

Bozidar Spirovski
Bozidar Spirovski
Masterclass Leader

Chief Information Security Officer

CISO at Blue dot and Sourcico, with experience across SaaS startups and large enterprises in banking, telco and energy sectors. Founder of BeyondMachines.net.

Anja Ivanovska
Anja Ivanovska
Guest Speake, Day 2

Chief Information Security Officer

Anja brings over 14 years of experience in critical infrastructure, operational technology and information security. As Information Security Officer at EVN Macedonia, she oversees the company's security management system and focuses on integrating and automating security processes across the complex ecosystem that delivers electrical energy to most of the country's households and industry.

Wekoslav Stefanovski
Wekoslav Stefanovski
Guest Speaker, Day 1

Head of Software Development

Over two decades of development experience across multiple technologies. Head of Development at Sourcico, with deep expertise in secure development practices.

Miroslav Janeski
Miroslav Janeski
Guest Speaker, Day 1

Technical Director, Microsoft MVP

Technical Director at Init Group and Microsoft MVP for Cloud-Native and .NET, with 15+ years of experience building data-driven applications on Azure across industries from IoT to finance. Holds an Engineering Doctorate in Software Technology from Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) and combines deep technical expertise with a pragmatic approach to running resilient cloud-native systems in production.

Dragan Sahpaski
Dragan Sahpaski
Guest Speaker, Day 4

CTO at Sorsix

A passionate innovator in digital health, spearheaded the development of MojTermin, transforming how patients and providers connect. Leading development of Pinga, a digital health product to improve clinical outcomes, streamline workflows, and rapidly deploy digital patient pathways.

Zivko Atanasov
Zivko Atanasov
Guest Speaker, Day 3

Head of IT, Insurance and Banking

Head of Information Technology at KB First Pension Company and former President of the Macedonian Banking Association's Commission for Information Security, bringing over 17 years of IT leadership experience in the financial services sector.

Vesna Miceva-Todorovska
Vesna Miceva-Todorovska
Guest Speaker, Day 4

General Manager at Congress Service Center

Over two decades of in managing huge European Union’s funded project in event management and travel sector. Head of the projects signed with Europol, Frontex, FPI European Labor Authority where highest level of cyberecurity and privacy expectations are the norm.

Dimitar Grozdanov
Dimitar Grozdanov
Guest Speaker, Day 2

Microsoft Platform Consultant, Microsoft MVP

With 25+ years of experience “in the field”, Dimitar is an independent cloud consultant and trainer as well as Microsoft 365 MVP. He gained his experience working with international partners, and enterprise customers in Finance, Telecommunications, Utilities, and Public Sector across Europe. He takes active role in the local IT Pro and Developer community as speaker, organizer and mentor.

Nenad Stojanovski
Nenad Stojanovski
Guest Speaker, Day 3

InfoSec lead and troublemaker... on sabbatical

It all started with reading Smashing The Stack For Fun And Profit(Phrack #40) and a few turns in the academia halls and a PhD into the security world of telcos, streaming service and a Cloud providers; Nenad brings two decades of experience into leadership and building security teams and organizations, the fun universe of Offensive security and deep technical expertise in hardening and protecting systems with Red and Blue team perspectives.

Masterclass Details

4-Day Intensive Masterclass — Split Over Two Weekends

When: Session 1: April 17-18, 2026 (Friday-Saturday) • Session 2: April 24-25, 2026 (Friday-Saturday). Full days, from 9AM to 6PM

Where: Base 42 (Rimska 25, Skopje)

A cybersecurity practical expertise program using two simulated organizations (YieldCat and CodeOnion) for hands-on learning

Limited to 20 participants (12 spots remaining) to ensure personalized interaction and feedback

Includes: Pre-masterclass preparation week, mid-session bridge week with conference calls and homework, daily expert sessions, hands-on challenges, templates & frameworks, 30-day post-masterclass support

  • ✓ Daily email with technical and preparatory materials
  • ✓ Short exercises to build foundational knowledge
  • ✓ Friday Q&A conference call to summarize materials

"Finding the needles in the haystack, and not getting pricked on them"

Guest Experts: Wekoslav Stefanovski, Miroslav Janeski

  • ✓ Theory - Identification of common web application flaws
  • ✓ Practical exercises - Hands-on vulnerability testing on live vulnerable applications
  • ✓ Discussion - Remediation decision-making for different organizational contexts
  • ✓ Practical exercises - Implementing remediation
  • ✓ Expert presentations and real-world insights
  • ✓ Final challenge with evaluation and feedback

"Getting things right when everything goes wrong"

Guest Experts: Anja Ivanovska, Dimitar Grozdanov

  • ✓ Theory - Disaster recovery and business continuity
  • ✓ Practical exercises - Understanding RTO and RPO, through some disasters
  • ✓ Discussion - Business Impact Assessment updates for case study organizations
  • ✓ Expert presentations and real-world insights
  • ✓ Final Challenge - Combined DR and BC exercise
  • ✓ Expert evaluation and feedback

  • ✓ Homework assignments to reinforce and refresh knowledge from Days 1 & 2
  • ✓ Two conference calls for discussion, Q&A, and preparation for the second session
  • ✓ Peer collaboration and knowledge sharing

"What will hit us first, and what will hit us the hardest? How do we keep standing?"

Guest Experts: Zivko Atanasov, Nenad Stojanovski

  • ✓ Theory - Incident classification and handling procedures
  • ✓ Practical exercises - Tabletop incident response exercises
  • ✓ Discussion and Exercises - Risk assessment methodologies and vendor risk evaluation
  • ✓ Expert presentations and real-world insights
  • ✓ Final Challenge - Make the risk assessment, present to the board
  • ✓ Expert evaluation and feedback

"Is it much to say, not enough time or too much time, not enough to say?"

Guest Experts: Vesna Miceva-Todorovska, Dragan Sahpaski

  • ✓ Theory - Regulatory and customer expectations
  • ✓ Discussion - Organizational context communication
  • ✓ Practical exercises - Questionnaire completion and customer responses
  • ✓ Practical exercises - Audit preparation and requirements
  • ✓ Expert presentations and real-world insights
  • ✓ Final challenge: customer security evaluation and auditor meetings
  • ✓ Expert evaluation and feedback

  • ✓ "Ask Me Anything" implementation support window
  • ✓ "What keeps me up at night" - private Discord forum
  • ✓ Anonymous peer support and experience sharing

Materials & Deliverables

Hands-On Environments
  • ✓ Vulnerable application environments
  • ✓ Workshop tools and lab access
  • ✓ Simulated organization scenarios
Ready-to-Use Templates
  • ✓ SDLC and incident response templates
  • ✓ Risk and vendor assessment frameworks
  • ✓ Executive presentation guidelines
  • ✓ Vendor questionnaire templates

Frequently Asked Questions

Essential Requirements: Technical curiosity, professional experience in organizations (development, operations, product management, compliance), laptop capability, and active participation willingness.
Ideal for: Software engineers moving into security leadership, product managers, technical project managers, operations engineers, compliance professionals, consultants, and technical founders/CTOs.

This is a practice-focused masterclass that integrates technical implementation with business communication. You'll work with realistic organizational scenarios, receive templates you can immediately implement, and learn to communicate security decisions across all organizational levels.

Yes! The masterclass covers core security disciplines required across ISO 27001, NIS2, and DORA frameworks. You'll learn to implement proper processes first, then tick compliance boxes, rather than chasing evidence just for requirements.

Everything: pre-masterclass preparation week, 4 full days of training (split across two weekends), mid-session bridge week with conference calls and homework, all materials and templates, lab environment access, expert presentations, hands-on exercises, 30-day post-masterclass support, and ongoing Discord community access.

To ensure hands-on interaction, personalized feedback from experts, and meaningful group discussions. This isn't a lecture series - it's an intensive, interactive learning experience.

This masterclass is designed as an in-person, hands-on experience. The collaborative exercises, role-playing scenarios, and networking opportunities require physical presence for maximum effectiveness.

The split format gives participants a week between sessions to absorb and apply what they've learned. During the bridge week, you'll have homework assignments and two conference calls to reinforce knowledge from the first two days and prepare for the final two. This approach leads to better retention and deeper understanding compared to four consecutive days.
Flexible Attendance Options
Full 4-Day Masterclass
(Recommended for maximum impact)
Early Bird Price
€500 per person
Student / First-Year Employee
€500 per person
Late Registration (From March 30th onward)
€600 per person
Full Package Includes:
  • Pre-masterclass preparation week
  • 4 full days of training (two weekends)
  • Mid-session bridge week with conference calls & homework
  • All materials & templates
  • 30-day post-masterclass Q&A support
  • Discord community access
Single-Day Pass
(Subject to availability)
Per Day
€180 per day Early Bird
€200 per day Late (From March 30th onward)
Single Day Includes:
  • One full day of training
  • Day-specific materials
  • No prep week
  • No mid-session bridge week
  • No post-masterclass support
  • Limited community access
Payment via invoice • Seat confirmed upon payment

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