NORDIC-BALTIC SECURITY SUMMIT
September 14, 2021 | Tallinn Creative Hub
What
The No 1 cyber security event and meeting of minds for the Nordic-Baltic region.
When
Next event will take place on September 14, 2021, in the beginning of golden autumn.
Why
Learn about the latest cyber security news and meet with industry leaders.
Where
Estonia, the tech unicorn country, home of NATO CCDCOE and sentinel of EU cyber defence.
MEET OUR SPEAKERS
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Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Former President of Estonia
Risto Siilasmaa
Founder & Chairman at F-Secure Corporation
Dr. Jarno Limnéll
Professor of Cybersecurity at Aalto University, Adjunct Professor at National Defence University, University of Jyväskylä and Tampere University of Technology, CEO at Tosibox Oy
Éireann Leverett
Founder and CEO of Concinnity Risks
Jamie Bartlett
Author and Broadcaster
Liisa Past
Chief Information Security Officer at the IT and Development Centre of the Estonian Ministry of the Interior
Gert Auväärt
Director of the Cyber Security Branch at the Estonian Information System Authority (RIA)
Janek Rozov
Head of Strategy at the IT and Development Center of the Ministry of the Interior
Kalev Noor
Head of IT Operations and Infrastructure Division at Tallink
Rita Käit-Vares
Board Member and Partner at CYBERS
Nikolai Belstein
CEO and Partner at CYBERS
Louis Zezeran
Professional Host and Entrepreneur
Next speakers to be announced soon
PROGRAM STRUCTURE
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Toomas Hendrik Ilves is an Estonian politician who served as the fourth President of Estonia from 2006 until 2016. Ilves worked as a diplomat and journalist, and he was the leader of the Social Democratic Party in the 1990s. He served in the government as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1996 to 1998 and again from 1999 to 2002. Later, he was a Member of the European Parliament from 2004 to 2006.
President Ilves has published many essays and articles in Estonian and English on numerous topics ranging from Estonian language, history, and literature to global foreign and security policy and cyber security.
Ilves served as chairman of the EU Task Force on eHealth from 2011 to 2012 and was chairman of the European Cloud Partnership Steering Board at the invitation of the European Commission from 2012 to 2014. In 2013 he chaired the High-Level Panel on Global Internet Cooperation and Governance Mechanisms convened by ICANN. From 2014 to 2015 Ilves was the co-chair of the advisory panel of the World Bank’s World Development Report 2016 “Digital Dividends” and was also the chair of World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Cyber Security beginning in June 2014. Starting from 2016, Ilves co-chairs The World Economic Forum working group The Global Futures Council on Blockchain Technology.
In 2017 Ilves became an advisory council member of German Marshall Fund’s Alliance for Securing Democracy. Starting from 2018, Ilves is a member of the advisory board of the Oxford University Centre for Technology and Global Affairs.
Risto Siilasmaa
New Technologies Shaping the World and the Growing Role of Cyber Security
- What are the new technologies that will shape the World in coming years?
- What are the threats that might occure from these technologies?
- What is the role of cyber security in enabling safe use of these technologies?
- What action should CISO’s and others responsible for cyber security take?
Risto Siilasmaa founded cybersecurity company F-Secure in 1988 and served as the President and CEO of the company until 2006. Since then he has been the Chairman of the Board. Risto is also an active venture capital investor with over 30 active investments via First Fellow Partners, a fund management company where he is both a general partner and the only limited partner. Risto was the Chair of the Board of Directors of Nokia Corporation in 2012-2020 and the Chair of the Board of Directors of Elisa Corporation in 2008-2012. Risto is a Board member of Futurice and Picosun and a member of Komatsu International Advisory Board, a member of the International Advisory Board at IESE Business School and a member of the Global Advisory Board of Yonsei University School of Business (YSB).
Jarno Limnell
What Organizations Should Do to Survive and Adopt to a Fast Changing Cyber Threat Landscape and Avoid Data Breaches
- Continuous security assessment using a multi-faceted approach (physical-digital threats, impacts, assets).
- Emerging technology monitoring and business assessment from technical, political and societal perspective.
- Awareness, trustworthy and resilience (business continuity) in digital environment.
- Strong strategic leadership commitment and trusted partners.
- Invest in personnel education and training; learn from each other and spread good practice.
Dr. Jarno Limnéll is the Professor of Cyber Security in the Aalto University, and an Adjunct Professor at three other universities. He is also the Chief Executive Officer at Tosibox Oy. By education Dr Limnell is a Doctor of Military Science, Master of Political Science and Officer. He is an esteemed and well known debater in Finland regarding national security and cyber security. He has been working with security issues for more than 20 years and written numerous books and scientific papers about cyber security, hybrid warfare and the impor-tance of comprehensive security in Finland. Jarno Limnell is a renowned expert also internationally and has extensive and global net-works both to public, governmental and private organisations.
Éireann Leverett
Security Is Mostly a Superstition
- We do a lot of engineering for security, and we have faith in our solutions. Is that faith well placed? How do we measure success? If we can’t measure such improvements, why do we have such faith?
- In this talk, we’ll use data science to discuss who gets hacked, and how much it costs them, and then turn towards how to get the most efficient spend for risk reduction.
- We will also discuss the predictive value of cyber risk methodologies, and why they matter.
Éireann Leverett is an author of Solving Cyber Risk, and a number of other papers on the topic. He has spoken multiple times at BlackHat, DefCon, CCC, and FIRST. He has founded two companies, and is a top 10 author of cyber risk papers by citations. He’s just a hacker who was lucky enough to go grey with other talented people.
Jamie Bartlett
The Dark Net and Deep Fake in Cyber Crime and What We Can Do About It
- Current trends in “dark” technology and what it means for the future.
- Latest development on the dark net and how cyber criminals are likely to evolve in the coming years.
- The way “deep fake” technology will disrupt business and politics and how we can respond.
Jamie is the author of three books, including the best selling “The Dark Net” about internet subcultures. His books have been translated into 20 languages. His 2018 BBC 2 series “The Secrets of Silicon Valley” helped expose the role of Cambridge Analytica in the 2016 US election. He recently presented the BBC podcast series The Missing Cryptoqueen, about a $15bn global Ponzi scheme, which won the BBC Best journalism award.
Liisa Past
Liisa Past (MA) focuses on protecting the infrastructure of democracy in the digital world and securing our incresingly electronic way of life. As the CISO if the IT and Development Centre at the Estonian Ministry of the Interior, she is responsible for mainstreaming information security practices accross technology that saves lives in homeland security.
Liisa has served as the Chief National Cyber Risk Officer for the Estonian Government Office and Chief Research Officer at the Cyber Security Branch of the Estonian Information System Authority, where she designed, led and carried out analysis related to cyber security, including risk, threat and impact assessments. She worked with the cyber security offerings of the R&D-intensive ICT company Cybernetica, the force behind critical digital governance systems and cutting edge applied research. Liisa spent 2018-2019 as a Next Generation Leader at the McCain Institute for International Leadership at the Arizona State University focusing on cyber security of the technologies underlying democracies and elections.
Liisa was a driving force behind the Estonian comprehensive risk assessment of elections and the Compendium on Cyber Security of Election Technology, published under the auspices of the Cooperation Group of the EU Network and Information Security Directive. While serving on the directorate of the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence, she ran both the external relations of and the StratCom game in the world’s largest international technical network defence exercise Locked Shields.
Gert Auväärt
Gert Auväärt holds a Master’s degree in Law from the University of Helsinki and has broadened his knowledge in the field of cyber security at the Marshall Centre and the European Security and Defence College.
Since 2004, he has held various positions in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, most of the time as a representative abroad – in the Netherlands and the USA. In 2008–2011, he was a legal and economic adviser in The Hague; in 2013–2016, at the Estonian Permanent Mission to the United Nations; and in 2016–2017, he was the cyber coordinator of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 2017 to 2018, he was the Head of International Relations at RIA.
In August 2018, he became the Deputy Head of the Estonian Permanent Mission to the UN, where his task was to bring Estonia’s first candidacy to the UN Security Council to a successful conclusion and from January 2020 he has been the deputy representative of Estonia to the UN Security Council dealing with the whole global security spectrum. From July 2021 he serves as the new Director of Cyber Security at RIA.
Janek Rozov
Does a Development of the User-Friendly Services Secure by Design?
- Relationship (developer, stakeholder, user and SEC) as a common sense
- Technology security as rule
- Data protection as wish
- User friendliness as dream
Over the past 20 years, Janak Rozov has been engaged in transforming the Public Sector using ICT capabilities. During that time, individual services as well as public sector organisations, have been designed and shaped the Country’s policy in the areas of digitisation and innovation. During the last 5 years active assessor and jury member of the different initiatives regards Public Sector digital transformation all over the world.
Since 2019 Janek Rozov is a Head of Strategy at Information Technology and Development Centre of Ministry of the Interior. Main objective is to integrate strategic planning with daily work and implementation of the KPI´s in all levels of organisation.
Before 2019 Janek Rozov was a Chief Digital Officer CDO (Government Deputy CIO) and head of the Department of Information Society Services Development (Digital Service Excellence team with specific cross-institutional tasks within the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications. 10 years extensive experience in coordinating e-government implementation processes in state level. Experience in leading the processes of standardization of the delivery of public services and ensuring the development of customer centric physical and virtual environments based on IT solutions. Experience in strategic planning and performing indicators implementation.
Before 2011 had been working in Estonian Tax and Customs Board during the 10 years. Main work achievements were related with better service provision in the taxation area. Organization development to achieving better efficiency and transparency.
Louis Zezeran, Moderator
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.
Nikolai Belstein
Nikolai, who is CEO in CYBERS, owns 18+ years experience in cyber security area, certified with CISSP, CCSP and CCISO, will share his experience with a customers in Nordics and Baltics to protect their business, assets and reputation against quickly evolving cyber threats. He has a strong background in designing and building Cyber Security Operations, Security Infrastructure and Architecture solutions, Incident response, Cyber Security monitoring and etc.
Jürgen Erm
Elements of Building a Modern Security Operations Centre
- The need and benefits for business
- Common mistakes that define failure or success
- Required SOC capabilities for today
- Possible approaches for companies to form this capacity
Jürgen Erm is an information security specialist working as a consultant at CYBERS where his responsibility is to help clients manage their business risk from a cyberthreat perspective. His 9+ years in a global financial institution with managerial and technical roles has given him experience and skills in the field of security operations, vulnerability management, IT auditing and incident response. He strongly believes that expensive security solutions do not solve problems without trained people and refined processes.
Priit Timpson
Securing Identity and Achieving Compliance in Microsoft Cloud
- How to secure identity in Microsoft cloud
- How to use Microsoft cloud to secure identity to non-Microsoft SaaS apps
- Compliance considerations in Microsoft cloud services
- Quick look on Azure Information Protection
Priit has 20 years experience in IT and last 12 years he has been working with Microsoft cloud solutions. Past 5 years his main focus has been on cloud security and compliance.
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.
Keynote Panel: Should We Expect 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 his 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.
Teemu Haataja has several years of experience in leading Microsoft Commercial and Public sector in Finland and in Microsoft Western Europe. Currently he is working with one of the worlds largest manufacturing companies in their own industry to help them establish global digital sales model.
Ilmar has been in RIA for about 9 years. In RIA he is responsible for developing and maintenance of the Estonian information security standard, which is compulsory for the whole public sector, and for supervision over the implementation of the security measures set out in that standard. Additionally his team also deals with trust, vital and digital service providers as well as with reviewing of risk analyses and audit reports. Currently, investigating the possibilities of usage of public cloud in public sector is a hot topic. For over 10 years before RIA, he was an internal auditor at the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Siim Sikkut is the Government CIO of Estonia, also titled as Deputy Secretary General for IT and Telecom in Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications. His role is to set the strategy and policies, to launch and steer strategic initiatives for development of digital government and society in Estonia. Siim is one of the founders of Estonia’s groundbreaking e-Residency programme.
Previously, he worked as Digital Policy Adviser in the Government Office of Estonia – coordinating the digital policy planning and execution across the government. He also served in this role as adviser to three consecutive Prime Ministers on digital matters. Siim’s prior experience includes work in Estonian Development Fund, a public venture capital fund and foresight think-tank, and Estonian Ministry of Finance, in areas of national strategic planning and public financial management.
Siim Sikkut graduated in 2005 from Princeton University, USA with B.A. degree in public and international affairs. He also holds an M.Sc. degree in International Management from the University of London.
Toomas Mõttus, CEO at Primend
Liisa Past (MA) is the former Chief National Cyber Risk Officer at the national defense coordination unit of the Government Office of Estonia and has also worked as the Chief Research Officer at the Cyber Security Branch of the Estonian Information System Authority, where she designed, led and carried out analysis related to cyber security, including risk, threat and impact assessments. She has been a driving force behind the Estonian comprehensive risk assessment of elections and the Compendium on Cyber Security of Election Technology, published under the auspices of the Cooperation Group of the EU Network and Information Security Directive.
In 2018-19 Liisa was Next Generation Leader at the McCain Institute for International Leadership at the Arizona State University where worked with government agencies and the election management bodies, focusing on operationalising cyber security of democratic processes.
WTF (What the Future) SOC is?
Jürgen Erm is an information security specialist working as a consultant at CYBERS where his responsibility is to help clients manage their business risk from a cyberthreat perspective.
His 9+ years in a global financial institution with managerial and technical roles has given him experience and skills in the field of security operations, vulnerability management, IT auditing and incident response. He strongly believes that expensive security solutions do not solve problems without trained people and refined processes.
Giorgi Sharia is working as a Cyber Security Expert at Cybers, where his main responsibilities lay on incident detection and response, malware analysis, and security platform engineering. He is keen about finding answers to question “How?”
He has Bachelor degree in Cyber Security.
Kaspar Jüristo is an information security engineer working at CYBERS where his responsibility is to help clients identify cyber security issues by simulating attempts to defeat safeguards.
He has been working in IT for more than 11 years and have relevant industry experience from an international telecommunication company and a Scandinavian bank. He has Master’s degree in Cyber Security and has CISSP and OSCP certifications. His main focus in technical roles for last 4 years have been related to IPS/IDS, SOAR, WAF, Proxy, Penetration Testing and Red Teaming.
Velmar Piibeleht is an information security engineer working at CYBERS where his responsibility is to dig deeper in security controls.
Within 7+ years of experience in IT security, he has made public and financial sector information systems more secure.Velmar Piibeleht
WTF (What the Future) SOC is?
Velmar Piibeleht is an information security engineer working at CYBERS where his responsibility is to dig deeper in security controls. Within 7+ years of experience in IT security, he has made public and financial sector information systems more secure.
Giorgi Sharia
WTF (What the Future) SOC is?
Giorgi Sharia is working as a Cyber Security Expert at Cybers, where his main responsibilities lay on incident detection and response, malware analysis, and security platform engineering. He is keen about finding answers to question “How?” He has Bachelor degree in Cyber Security.
Kaspar Jüristo
WTF (What the Future) SOC is?
Kaspar Jüristo is an information security engineer working at CYBERS where his responsibility is to help clients identify cyber security issues by simulating attempts to defeat safeguards. He has been working in IT for more than 11 years and have relevant industry experience from an international telecommunication company and a Scandinavian bank. He has Master’s degree in Cyber Security and has CISSP and OSCP certifications. His main focus in technical roles for last 4 years have been related to IPS/IDS, SOAR, WAF, Proxy, Penetration Testing and Red Teaming.
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.
Registration & Morning Coffee
End of the Event
VENUE
The most popular event venue in Estonia has been chosen to host the event – Tallinn Creative Hub (Põhja pst 27a).
100 year old renovated power plant is a unique place that accommodates rooms for plenary sessions, parallel tracks and for networking during the breaks.
Super Early Bird
289 EUR
(inc. VAT)
Entrance fee till 31.05.2021 is 289 EUR (inc.VAT). Conference fee grants access to the conference day and evening reception.
Early Bird
349 EUR
(inc. VAT)
Entrance fee from 01.06.2021 till 31.07.2021 is 349 EUR (inc.VAT). Conference fee grants access to the conference day and evening reception.
Late Bird
459 EUR
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Entrance fee from 01.08.2021 till 14.09.2021 is 459 EUR (inc.VAT). Conference fee grants access to the conference day and evening reception.
PAST EVENTS (VIDEOS, SLIDES, PHOTOS)
Overview video of the 2020 Conference
Nikolai Belsten @Nordic-Baltic Security Summit 2020
