March 20th, LSEC - CSA Belux in collaboration with the Belgian Cyber Security Coalition and KPMG organised the Belux CSA (Cloud Security Alliance) Chapter Meeting at KPMG in Antwerp. Cloud Security has matured over the last decade, and recent trends indicate that over the next five years public clouds will be growing 20% annually. Organisations large and small, private and public are migrating from in house - on premise - hybrid, to public clouds. Most of the spent is on SaaS, and moving into public and that is quite a surprise to many Security practitioners. Experiences and Best practices were shared from KBC Belgium on how to manage cloud services from a service level and ICT-provisioning perspective, from Google Cloud on the application of security, by Laurie-Ann Bourdain on the practice of GDPR in Cloud Operations and by Hans Graux en Ulrich Seldeslachts on the developing Cloud Certification schemes also for GDPR Compliance. KPMG updated the attendees with a view on the developments of Belgian companies on GDPR. Sebastien Deleersnyder from Toreon opened the day by indicating some of the current threat models in the cloud development landscape. Many thanks to KPMG for hosting this activity. 

If you missed it, presentation materials are now available for download from Cloud Security 2018 - CSA Summit Belux page or look for the 2018-03-20 event on the activities. 

January 23rd, the first GDPR Salon in Brussels took place offering an insight on some major developments of GDPR technology in Belgium. The two hundred attendees and representatives from the public authorities and the partners of the organization being all enthusiastic on the setup and activities of the GDPR Salon calls for some additional events of interest, including a GDPR Salon 2019. The opening keynotes from both State Secretary on Privacy Philippe De Backer and Willem Debeuckelaere,  president of the privacy commission in Belgium, confirmed the additional activities requested from the Belgian DPA, extending its responsibilities and increasing its budget. 

If you missed it, presentation materials are now available for download from the GDPR Salon event page or look for the 2018-01-23 in our calendar. 

January 18th, already for the fifth time the annual LSEC Cyber Threat Intelligence seminar took place in Brussels. Focusing on the domains of Situational Awareness, threat detection and how to respond to it, Cyber Threat Intelligence includes the mechanism of collecting and dealing with cybersecurity threat information. Some of this information needs to acted upon. With a keynote by the CEO of G DATA Advisory and Advanced Malware Analysis team, and followed by some experience from within Airbus Cyber Security on how to treat Cyber Threat Intelligence within the organization. Wim Hafkamp, CISO Rabobank was challenged by 100kms of wind in the back but came and presented his view on the challenges of the financial services market. Key components related to regulations, software engineering and dealing with cyber threat intelligence. IBM, ATAR Labs - a very promising startup from Turkey -  capable of automating many tedious presidential tasks. Followed with an interesting perspective on Europe's biggest sharing platform, MISP (Malware Information Sharing Platform). 

If you missed it, presentation materials are now available for download from Cyber Threat Intelligence CTI-registration page or look for the 2018-01-27. 

On November 30th, LSEC organized its 8th GDPR activity in 2017, this time on Experiences Sharing in GDPR transformation, covering topics such as developments and state of play with guidelines, accountability, PIA's and DPIA's, Consent Management, Data Leakage Prevention technologies, compliance management, company wide data loss protection and overall privace management. Interesting debates with operational data protection coordinators and DPO's, participants from DPO offices managing the current challenges in the ongoing GDPR transformation. 

The majority of the participants have already been studying GDPR and its impact, but continue to struggle with the implementation. Guidance from the experts Nicholas Delcroix, Hans Graux, Laurie-Ann Bourdain and experiences from the iWelcome team, on privacy by design by Tommy Vandepittte, using SDLC for GDPR development by Toreon, practical experiences on use of DLP technologies from Symantec and Data Protection form IBM and finally from iGuards made it an informative and practical session for our attendees. For most of them, interpretation of the GDPR regulation continues to be challenge, debate and discussion. Best practices amongst attendees supports some of the ongoing developments on GDPR transformation.

If you missed it, presentation materials are now available for download from the GDPR events page and looking for November 30th event (or any of the other past sessions).. 

Belgian Cyber Security Convention, well attended first edition. 

Lightning speech by Cybersecurity Futurologist Bart Preneel. 

A private event, organized by a brewery of ideas, supported by the Belgian Cybersecurity Coordination Center, the Cybersecurity Coalition and LSEC. 

To download the LSEC Cybersecurity Industry Market Analysis Presentation of October 25th, the materials of the session, go to the download session. Upon login - or after registration, you will be able to access the downloadable file.