You’ll find your secure digital future at the museum. We invite you to a new exhibition in Brno

On Wednesday 16 September 2026, an exhibition entitled ‘Cybersecurity for Everyone: How to Protect Yourself and Your Loved Ones’ will open at the Technical Museum in Brno. The exhibition, aimed at anyone who cares about the security of their privacy, data and finances, has been organised by the museum in collaboration with the research group Security@FIT from the Faculty of Information Technology at Brno University of Technology, the cybersecurity company Gen, and the Czech AI Factory project. Everyone who cares about the security of their privacy, data and finances is invited. The exhibition will remain open until the end of March 2027.

Cybersecurity – a term that can be misleading. It is easy to fall into the trap of thinking that the protection of computers, networks and digital systems concerns only businesses or public institutions. And that an individual is too small, indeed an uninteresting, target for cyber-attacks. In reality, ‘cyber security’ is part of our everyday lives. Everyone should learn the basic rules of safe behaviour in the digital world by primary school at the latest. The world is changing, and today our money and privacy are also at stake. It was precisely this idea, and the fact that this year marks the 40th anniversary of the world’s first documented computer virus (Brain), that gave rise to this new exhibition. “At Security@FIT, we have been conducting cybersecurity research for many years at an international level. But we also strive to make these topics accessible to the public and to raise awareness. When the opportunity arose to collaborate on an exhibition, especially with such a renowned partner as the Technical Museum in Brno, it was a clear choice. The sections forming the technical core of the exhibition – authentication, AI security, malware and the IoT – are based on the key themes of our research. At the same time, we are delighted to have succeeded in inviting our partner, GEN, which, as a leading global anti-malware firm, has supported the quality of the exhibition’s content,” comments Kamil Malinka, head of the research group, on the involvement of experts from FIT BUT and the business sector. The exhibition Cybersecurity for Everyone: How to Protect Yourself and Your Loved Ones will show you how attackers obtain data, money or access to accounts. Above all, it will teach you how such risks can be significantly reduced through simple and effective habits.

The Family in a World of Digital Threats

Visitors will be guided through the exhibition by members of the ‘Connected’ model family. Each of them encounters the risks and pitfalls of today’s digital world in a different way. Through their stories, you’ll be able to look beneath the surface of the technologies we use every day, but whose inner workings often remain hidden.

What exactly does the exhibition have to offer? Above all, a journey through the world of malware and the most common online scams. Visitors can expect a gallery of today’s cyber threats, hidden behind sophisticated terms such as ransomware, password stealers, phishing and exploits. Everything is explained using specific, real-life examples. This makes it easy to understand, for example, how malware steals passwords and exactly what can disappear from a single infected computer.

How to defend yourself effectively

Highlighting the risks is important. However, it is even more crucial to know how to prevent them and to follow these measures. The exhibition will introduce you to the basic principles of defence in a concrete and accessible way. You’ll learn, for example, which accounts should be protected with two-factor authentication, what the ‘3–2–1’ backup rule means, and why we shouldn’t underestimate the importance of securing our smart homes either. You’ll also realise just how quickly a powerful server can crack commonly used passwords and why length (rather than complex character combinations) is the most important factor when creating them. Finally, you’ll be introduced to modern authentication methods, including hardware security keys, fingerprints and even vein scanning. And you’ll understand why even these aren’t foolproof methods.

A separate section of the exhibition is devoted to artificial intelligence. It’s hardly surprising. AI is a term that is literally bombarding us from the media and public sphere. Above all, however, it is a technology that most of us actively use and which brings with it entirely new security risks. At the Technical Museum in Brno, you’ll see for yourself how easy it is to create a truly convincing deepfake voice or image. You’ll understand why generative models, such as Gemini or ChatGPT, can ‘hallucinate’ and present us with false information. You will also learn to recognise the activities of coordinated networks of AI bots on social media. But it’s not all doom and gloom. The exhibition will also show that the very same technology which attackers can exploit is also used to protect users and detect cyber-attacks. This is thanks in part to experts such as those from the Faculty of Information Technology at Brno University of Technology and the company GEN.

Cybersecurity is everyone’s responsibility, and underestimating it means exposing oneself to significant losses. Spending a few dozen minutes amongst the interesting exhibits and presentations is therefore a very good investment in your own future. You are warmly invited to the exhibition.