Aleksei Zjabkin

Cloud Survival Guide in Evolving Threat Landscape

Key takeaways:

• How to get ROI from agile security services in a very efficient way to help customer business to succeed with the compliance demands in cloud environment
• Identify cyber security risks in public or hybrid cloud environments and establish a comprehensive cyber security strategy to address these risks
• How to gather an efficient cyber security operations in cloud environment throughout the security orchestration, automation and response capability

Aleksei is a Chief Technology Officer at CYBERS, responsible for development and implementation of various Cyber Security technologies for customers around the globe. He holds both technical and managerial background with almost 10 years of experience in IT Security field, focusing on network security, identity and access management, machine learning and automation techniques for infrastructure deployment.
Aleksei’s main passion areas are Network Security, Security Automation and Orchestration, Security Operations, Threat Intelligence and User Behavior Analytics.

Jarno Limnell

What Organizations Should Do to Survive and Adopt to a Fast Changing Cyber Threat Landscape and Avoid Data Breaches

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Jesse Wojtkowiak

Cyber Culture: Subcultures and Cults

• The good: where to start and easy wins
• The bad: human nature and what to do about that, perseverance and humility
• The ugly: hitting moving targets, cost and value of effort

Jesse is an experienced information and cybersecurity professional with a passion for leadership and building teams. Previously a career U.S. Naval Officer and Naval Aviator.

Luukas Ilves

How Do High Level Cyber Security Regulations Affect Businesses and Organisations?

Luukas Ilves is Head of Strategy at Guardtime, a leading enterprise blockchain company, where he applies cutting edge technology to building a prosperous, secure and open world.

Previously, Luukas has served in various positions for the Government of Estonia and the European Commission, including leading digital policy during Estonia’s 2017 Presidency of the EU Council, as a member of staff for European Commission Vice President Neelie Kroes and as Head of International Affairs for RIA, Estonia’s e-government and cybersecurity agency.

Most recently, Luukas was deputy director and senior fellow at the Lisbon Council, a Brussels-based think tank. His research focused on digital development in the EU and developing countries, e-government, AI and the data economy. During this time, he also chaired the Council of Europe’s export committee on the human rights and ethical dimensions of Artificial Intelligence.

Luukas is a graduate of Stanford University, a reserve officer and a member of the Estonian Defence League’s Cyber Defence Unit. He has been decorated by the President of Estonia with the Order of the White Star, one of the youngest recipients in the history of the award.

Mai Kraft

The Experience in Building Security Culture in Elisa Eesti AS

Mai Kraft has more than 5 years experience in IT and information security. Currently she is working as a Chief Information Security Officer at Elisa Eesti AS with the responsibiltiy to lead the company’s information security domain. She has Master’s degree in Cyber Security and holds CISA and SANS GSEC certifications.

Nicolas Fischbach

As Global CTO, Nico drives corporate level vision, defines the research agenda and pilots technology and architecture roadmaps which underpin Forcepoint’s human-centric cybersecurity solutions. He is responsible for company-wide innovation as well as Forcepoint X-Labs, and is instrumental in developing thought leadership for the brand. In addition, Nico leads the office of the CTO, pilots C-level engagements with chief security strategists and architects, and sponsors University R&D partnerships and Raytheon technology transfers.

Prior to this role, Nico led Forcepoint’s cloud-first transformation as the CTO for the company’s cloud security business, where he oversaw technical direction and innovation.

Before joining Forcepoint, he spent 17 years at Colt, a global B2B service provider, starting as a senior network engineer and being ultimately responsible for company-wide strategy, architecture and innovation. Under his leadership Colt received significant industry awards as a SDN, NFV and telco transformation pioneer.

Nico is a recognized authority on Service Provider security as well as on next-generation network and cloud architectures, holding a master’s degree in networking and distributed computing from Pierre and Marie Curie University, a master’s degree in computer science from Institute of Information Technology and a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the Robert Schuman University Institute of Technology. He is also an advisory board alumni of a number of companies and devotes time to the community as a member of The Honeynet Project, a research organization dedicated to internet security.

Nikolai Belstein

What Is the Right Approach to Avoid Glass Breakage Situations and Reduce Costly Cyber Incidents?

• In this session you will know DO’s and DON’Ts in case of cyber-attacks, how to avoid attacks and breaches, what to DO and to avoid Glass breakage. How Security as a Service and Security Monitoring could help you to mitigate a risks of becoming a victim of cybercrime, what potentially could STOP and DESTROY your business.

Nikolai is a cyber security expert with 18+ years experience in cyber security area. CISSP, CCSP and CCISO certified. He has a strong background in designing and building Cyber Security Operations, Security Infrastructure and Architecture solutions, Incident response, Cyber Security monitoring and etc. Now he is CEO in CYBERS and will share his experience with a customers in Nordics and Baltics to protect their business, assets and reputation against quickly evolving cyber threats.

Rain Laane

Panel Discussion: Can We Expect an Acid Rain From the Cloud?

Rain Laane (born 1971, Estonia) graduated 1994 from Tallinn Technical University (today TalTech) as engineer and achieved his MBA 2003 from Estonian Business School. He started he’s professional career during high school as programmer 1988 in Small Enterprise “Kompuuter”. After selling few years American personal computers he joined IBM in 1997 and moved in 2005 to another US big IT corporation Microsoft, where he served 12 years as General Manager Estonia and General Manager Baltics. In 2017 he was elected to lead Estonian Health Insurance Fund, which is the mutual health insurance provider (public one) in Estonia with annual budget 1.6 B€. He has two passions – people and technology. This is a good combination, which helps keeping Estonia on e-innovation track also in Health sector.

Riku Reimaa

Self-Healing Solutions for a Modern and Secure Workplace

• HP provides a range of solutions that help drive productivity and collaboration in the workplace
• Embedded security solutions that are built-in to the hardware provide self-healing capabilities and protect you from modern threats

Riku Reimaa is the technical lead for Finland and the Baltics, and has over 20 years of experience with Compaq, HP and Microsoft covering datacenter and virtualization, the Cloud and modern management solutions and services.

Uko Valtenberg

To What Extent Could Public Sector Outsource Cyber Security?

• What can public sector gain?
• Could it optimise funds and staff?
• What are legal constraints?
• How to handle issue of trust?

He was born 1981 in Estonia and started his service in the Estonian Defense Forces (EDF) in 2000. After the compulsory service he worked as an officer and instructor in the EDF Single Signals Battalion signals school. After completing his studies in the Estonian National Defense College Higher Military School in 2006 he served as landing and navigation systems engineer in the Estonian Air force. In 2007 he served in Afghanistan in joint staff headquarters communication branch. After 2008 he resigned his service and worked for the Estonian National Broadcasting services as a head of division. 2009 he joined the group of individuals who later in 2011 founded the Estonian Defense league’s Cyber Defense Unit (EDL CDU). He is one of the founding members of the Estonian Defense League Cyber Defense Unit.

He started his masters in 2009 in Tallinn University of Technology in Telecommunications and graduated in 2012 as Master of Science in engineering of Cyber Defense. 2017 Brigade Staff Officers Course by Estonian National Defense College.

He wrote the Cyber Range (CR) project for the EDF in 2011 and shortly after he rejoined the EDF in order to build the EDF CR. He has written several cyber defense related analyses and projects for the EDF. He wrote the project for EDF hosting the Cyber Coalition exercise in Estonia in 2013. In 2014 he consulted the Est MOD for offering the EDF CR to NATO. In 2015 he consulted the Est MOD regarding the national Cyber Olympics. In 2016 he worked with TTU on the Cyber Range 2.0 (NATO Cyber Range) project.
In late 2014 he completed a PROGRAM ON CYBER SECURITY STUDIES in the George C. Marshall European Centre for Security Studies.

He was the chief of NATO Cyber range from 2011 to 2017. In 2017 he took on a post as Deputy Commander of Headquarters and Signals Battalion (Cyber Security Consultant). In 2018 he was appointed as the Commander of Cyber and Information Operations Centre of EDF Cyber Command. Today he is a major in reserves and planner for the Defence Leaque Cyber Defence Unit. In 2019 summer he started he’s new job as the head of Information security department in the IT and Development Centre of the Ministry of the Enterior of Estonia

He is involved with several NATO cyber defense related research groups. In his current position (fully as of AUG 2018) he is responsible for management and development of the EDF Cyber and Information Operations and consulting various cyber related R&D projects for the TUT, Est MOD, EDA, NATO, EDF and EDL CDU.

Yann Le Borgne

Yann Le Borgne is a specialist in cyber security for more than fifteen years. Previously, he was in charge of a team of twelve people across all the countries of the Mediterranean area at Sourcefire then Cisco Security. He joined ThreatQuotient in January 2016 where he held the position of Technical director at ThreatQuotient in Europe.

Louis Zezeran

Louis grew up in a small coastal town in Australia and attended the University of Newcastle, gaining a first class Honors Degree in Computer Science and worked in the industry as a consultant and trainer for 10 years, specializing in enterprise integration services. Having left the world of IT consultancy behind, Louis now uses his public speaking and communication skills to lead tech focused conferences, combining both his broad technical and entertainment skills to provide a larger than life presence on stage when he hosts.