CISO Summit No. 3: Advanced Threat Prevention
Event Details
Keynote 1: Advanced Persistent Threats
Speaker: Dr. Marc Ph. Stoecklin, IBM Research
Advanced Persistent Threads (APTs) are by more sophisticated and targeted compared to earlier threats. APTs employ multi-stage kill chains created by highly capable actors. Traditional security mechanisms likely fail to detect APTs. We analyse the anatomy of APTs and discuss strategies and concepts for mitigation.
Dr. Marc Ph. Stoecklin is a research scientist and the manager of the Security Services (GSALI) team at IBM Research, where he is responsible for cyber security analytics
research with a particular focus on advanced threat detection, big data analytics, network and device security, as well as security data visualization.
Keynote 2: Cyber Defence Strategy of the Swiss Armed Forces
Speaker: Gérald Vernez, Director for Cyber-Defence in the Swiss Armed Forces
The Cyber Defence Strategy of the Swiss Armed Forces from 2013 with aims to protect the military IT-systems and -infrastructures, to initiate the collaboration with operators of critical infrastructures that are themselves essential to the armed forces and for the support to civilian authorities. An overview on concepts, interdependencies and procedures will be discussed with the attending CISOs.
Gérald Vernez, Colonel GS, MAS ETH SPCM, Director for Cyber-Defence in the Swiss Armed Forces. He is deeply involved in information operations and cyber defence for more than 15 years, and nationally as well as internationally known as high level expert.
Keynote 3: Cyber Fusion Centre Insights
Speaker: Martin Dion, Kudelski Security
Cyber Fusion Centre lnsights will expose some processes and technologies used to manage the flow of information and intelligence across private sector and government. We will discuss how private organizations shall take leadership and build synergies to effectively detect and prevent the growing number and impact of advanced threats.
Martin Dion, Vice President, Head of Financial Services Practice at Kudelski Security brings over 15 years of experience in the field of information security. Prior to joining
Kudelski, he founded and led Above Security (Canada) and Secure IT (Switzerland). Next position was Head of IT and Corporate Security in a Swiss private bank. He is a certified CISSP CISM and ISO 27001/2000/27005/22301 Trainer/ Lead Auditor.