Situational Awareness 2018

While most companies are still trying to get their grip on Security measures, putting in place detecting capabilities and setting up SIEM or more advanced threat intelligence systems pumping false positives, Behavioral analytics are now the standard for any self-respecting cyber intelligence platform. The next step is to further improve scientific methods, understanding how to detect intrusions, advanced threats, beyond malware signatures and known vulnerabilities. The objective: being to be able to prevent intruders, malicious actors, internal threats and criminals from stealing data, disrupting business or causing damage of any sort. Moving beyond the hype is where the challenges are. Understanding your environment, the threat landscape and accurately predicting and responding to potential problems that might occur are more than ever crucial in today’s CISO operations. Many technologies have been introduced to support these efforts, but what is the status quo here?

Topics:

• Situational Awareness
• Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence for Cyber status quo
• Analytics and Data Mining in Practice
• Cyber Threat Intelligence

Speakers:

Keynote: 'Lessons learned from implementing threat intel teams across government and enterprise’ , by Joep Gommers, Founder and CEO of EclecticIQ
Joep Gommers is a renowned security and intelligence professional from the Netherlands. Joep became known among security professionals after an article of his writing appeared on the technology-related news website slashdot on January 23, 2006, stating that "current approaches to Information Security are fundamentally wrong". With this, and other ideas, he gives talks at conferences, universities and communities throughout Europe.

Ulrich Seldeslachts, CEO of LSEC
Ulrich is executive director of LSEC, a not for profit industry association focused on Information - and cyber security in Europe, based out of Belgium. Since 2012, LSEC has been leading industrial developments in cyber security; including cyber threat intelligence and information sharing. With LSEC, Ulrich was one of the founding partners of the ACDC - Project, Europe's first action against botnets.

Jeroen Herlaar, Director Europe West, at MANDIANT, a FireEye Company [tbc]
Jeroen has more than a decade of experience in building and managing cyber security practices. Prior to joining MANDIANT, Mr. Herlaar spent eight years working at a leading Dutch cyber security company. There he built, and managed their cyber security capabilities, including penetration testing, security monitoring, incident response, threat intelligence, and online fraud detection, delivering to a variety of clients in the finance, critical Infrastructure, and other commercial industries, overseeing a team of 60+ highly skilled, security, and sales professionals.

Pepijn Janssen, CTO and Co- Founder of RedSocks [tbc]
At the start of the millennium Pepijn was recruited by the Cyber Crime unit of the National Police Agency while still doing his computer sciences studies. 4 years later he joined the High Tech Crime Center of Europol to combat Cyber Crime on a larger scale. From 2008 he worked as independent consultant in the areas IP-interception and botnet monitoring. He founded RedSocks (now RedSocks Security) in 2012.

Other speakers tbc:
- IBM
- McAfee
- Raytheon
- Thales