May 10th, LSEC and 3IF were invited at FHI in the Netherlands to inform recent challenges and developments in ict security for production companies in process industries and manufactuing all together. Together with partners Toreon and Sirris, a great debate and discussion on the current and future challenges for industrial automation. Thanks to our partners FHI. 
For more information and downloads, go the Cyber Security for production and machine construction. 

LSEC coordinates and collaborates actively with its members in innovative industrial collaborations, where end user members and industrial ict security companies bring the best of their expertise, and learn about most innovative developments in Europe.  

3IF.be : Industrial Internet of Things, Industrie 4.0 and Industrial Internet for manufacturing companies, industrial automation and industry at large in combination with security expertise for IoT: www.3If.be

IPACSO : Innovation Framework for Cyber Security & Privacy Innovations, IPACSO Innovation Awards and business support for ICT Security companies 

ACDCCTI : the European Cyber Threat Intelligence Platform, with over 10 million vulnerabilities exchanged, from over 750 sensors in 28 European countries. 

Infosecurity Belgium - Storage Expo will take place on June 15 and 16th. Come and visit the LSEC - 3IF Innovation Pavillion, Information Security, Cyber Security and IoT Innovations.
Together with IPACSO award winners Crypho, Docraid and innovative ICT Security partners CSI Tools, SecurIT and Cronos Security.
As a result of the terrorist attacks in Brussels on March 22nd, the organisers and Brussel Expo collectively made the right decision to postpone the 2016 edition to a later date. 

As a co-organiser and participant to the tradeshow and conference, LSEC supported this decision and is looking forward to Infosecurity.be 2016 being organized now in June at Brussels Expo.. 
For any important and urgent information security challenges, don't hesitate to contact LSEC to organize a workshop and to guide your teams in prioiritizing next steps, or if you're looking for some innovative approaches and new technologies in Information Security. 
infosecurity2016 at@ lsec.eu 

San Francisco February 29th, 2016

The annual information security conference taking place in San Francisco has reached another heighlight in its 25 years existence. The conference is recognised as one of the leading gatherings for information security and cyber security experts. The week in San Francisco gathered this year over 40.000 attendees and more than 500 exhibitors on its massive exhibition space. The conference was animated with 10 parallell track per hour on a daily basis between Tuesday and Friday morning. Almost 1000 sessions took place. 
This year's conference continued taking Cyber Security management to a next level, putting a lot of attention on advanced analytics, advanced exploits of both MacOS, Critical Infrastructures, evolutions of cloud security management and a continued focus on Privacy. While the quality of the contributions varied: some of the panel debates were thought provoking and provided new insights; some presentations were interesting, but didn't reach the level of in depth advancement as expected and apart from the Microsoft perspective on transparancy, especially the keynotes in the main program lacked sufficient vision and leadership. Many of the presentations are available online and should serve as discussion debate for information security professionals and their technology and services providers to investigate further advancement. Register here to find out more. 

An increasing European delegate representation is calling for a European focused conference of a similar posture. Participants from our partners and members of CERT.EU, INCIBE, ECO, TeleTrust, EOS,NVISO, KBC, Sophos, Vasco Data Security, ISABEL, KU Leuven, ... and many others were able to differentiate between European and North American experiences. European expertise is of a similar and sometimes better quality than their counterparts, but there is no doubt that the North American market is far more mature and advanced, allowing for more advanced and in depth mature debate. This calls for a level of thought leadership in Europe that is available, has been identified, but should provide efforts in getting together on an annual basis. 
Apart from this, all European experts should send a delegation on an annual basis to meet up with their American, Asian, Middle Eastern and African counterparts, and the RSA Conference will continue to lead as one of the global Information Security Conferences. 

Looking forward to another thought provoking and qualitative 2017 version.

Cyber Threat Intelligence State of the Art 

Brussels, Thursday January 14th, LSEC gathered a group of cyber security experts focused on the domain of Cyber Threat Intelligence, Cyber Threat detection and management. The increasing number of cyber security incidents challenge not only the systems, but also the people and the resources of organizations. International information exchanges, both commercial and open source initiatives such as the IBM X Force exchange and the ACDC CTI exist to provide cyber threat intelligence to experts and cyber threat intel communities. With cyber threat intel experts such as the recently acquired Fox-IT indicating the variations of cyber threat intelligence, technology providers such as RedSocks - both collecting data and executing analysis - respecting European data protection regulations. Threat Intel platform provider EclecticIQ put the challenges of managing threat intel, and the use of technologies to support internal and external threat intelligence. Both challenges and solutions were presented. A more provactive Symantec provided insights into some of the challenges related to different open sources platforms, the relevance and the business value of cyber threat intelligence for an organization. 

To find out more : go to event page. 

Out thoughts are with the Victims and their Families, the people of Paris and France.