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International Cyber Expo 2023 – Registration is now OPEN

The Gurus — Tue, 16 May 2023 14:18:31 +0000

Registration for this year’s International Cyber Expo (ICE) on the 26th and 27th of September 2023 at London Olympia is now open. The award-winning security event will once again showcase an impressive line-up of talks, demonstrations, and senior-level roundtable discussions led by reputable experts in the field; not least, Chair of the event’s Advisory Council, Ciaran Martin CB, Professor at Oxford University.

To register for FREE, visit: https://ice-2023.reg.buzz/eskenzi-press-release-launch

Off the back of the inaugural event last year, ICE attracted over 135 exhibitors and more than 4,800 visitors from across the globe. The two-day event was well received and proved to be among the most inclusive, well-rounded, and attended cybersecurity events in the calendar. It caters to industry professionals of all backgrounds, from start-ups to established vendors, software developers to C-Level executives.

With networking a top priority for attendees, guests will have the opportunity to meet senior cybersecurity professionals from household names such as Google, Microsoft, Sainsbury’s, Tesco, Network Rail and Boohoo; as well as government representatives from across various departments, like the Home Office. Highly regarded members of International Cyber Expo’s Advisory Council such as Nick Bell (CEO, National Cyber Resilience Centre Group), Dr Emma Philpott MBE (CEO, IASME), Paul Chichester (Director of Operations, NCSC) and Juliette Wilcox, CMG (Cyber Security Ambassador, Department of International Trade) will also be walking the show floor.

International Cyber Expo 2023 event highlights will include:

Global Cyber Summit: A combination of roundtable discussions, fireside chats and presentations that will look at real cyber issues impacting us today and in tomorrow’s interconnected world. This year, the Summit will explore themes such as the cyber skills gap, international perspectives surrounding the rise of artificial intelligence including ChatGPT, as well as the recent introduction of significant legislative changes in the industry. Uniquely, this year’s Summit will also look at the Russian cyber attacks on Ukraine and elsewhere, from a Ukrainian perspective with close advisors to the country’s government agencies weighing in.
Tech Hub Stage: An opportunity for vendors to launch products/services and talk about real-life applications and case studies of game-changing solutions.
Senior-Level Roundtables (by invitation only): An intimate get-together of 8 – 10 Chief Information Security Officers and other senior representatives exploring the latest challenges they are facing, and their insights on emerging trends.
Immersive Cyber Demonstrations: Professional actors from Crisis Cast deliver immersive demonstrations on how to prepare for cyber threats, explore vulnerabilities and survive in the new age of information warfare.
Connect+ Live: A meeting service to connect qualified international buyers with sellers based on their buying needs.
International Pavilions: A range of International Pavilions expand the market opportunity and international nature of this high-level cybersecurity event.
Government Zone: With support spanning the Home Office, UKDSE, UK Cyber Council, Joint Security and Resilience Centre (JSaRC) and more, the Government Zone provides a central meeting point for visitors to network and discover the latest projects and plans for the UK’s future with the most senior and influential figures in UK Government departments, organisations and agencies.
Cyber Griffin Tabletop Exercise: The award-winning tabletop exercise is designed to explore the decisions that people make in real-life scenarios in order to protect their businesses from modern-day threats.

“We are thrilled to be opening registration for International Cyber Expo, our London-based cybersecurity event, in its second consecutive year. We have already received an astounding amount of interest from both exhibitors and visitors alike, and we cannot wait to reconvene in September this year for another great event,” said Rachael Shattock, Group Event Director at Nineteen Group.

To register for FREE, visit: https://ice-2023.reg.buzz/eskenzi-press-release-launch

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Guest Post: Security Serious 2016 & The Unsung Heroes Awards

The Gurus — Tue, 05 Jul 2016 08:00:18 +0000

Eskenzi PR have once again decided to run Security Serious Week from 3^rd TO 7^th OCTOBER to encourage UK Plc to take security more seriously. The whole ethos of Security Serious Week is to garner the cyber-security community to give something back and encourage others to take security more seriously in the hope that together we can create a more secure environment to do business and ultimately act as an enabler to make UK PLC a safer place to trade online.
During the inaugural Security Serious Week last year, over 3000 people took advantage of the 45+ webinars and over 100 people came together for a photocall outside the Tower of London to show that they are “Security Serious”.
This year we are introducing two new events to run alongside the Week. The first is a Security Serious Conference; on the morning of 3rd October the second is the Unsung Heroes Awards on 6^th October.
The Conference will be held for free for 80 business influencers and end users at the prestigious Churchill Room at the Department of Culture, Media and at 100 Parliament Street. The theme of the conference will be around security awareness and run 3 key sessions:

Changing the Culture of UK Plc to “Think before you Click” – making security awareness sticky and fun – a number of CISOs will present on how they are managing to do this within their companies, including GSK, Canon UK, Publicis and The Economist
Top 3 things to make the board sit up and take security seriously – including the importance and changing role that GDPR will have on your business
Why you should you hire a hacker – with speakers such as Jennifer Radcliffe, a well known social engineering expert, Ian Glover head of CREST and Pete Wood, an ethical hacker.

If you would be keen to be a speaker or indeed attend, please email saul@itsecurityguru.com.
The Security Serious Unsung Heroes Awards
These awards are taking place for the first time this year on October 6^thin Spitalfields to celebrate the people, not the products, who work tirelessly securing UK businesses, Government and the national critical infrastructure. These are the women and men who have on numerous occasions saved our bacon, from companies being brought to their knees by a breach or a continuity disaster. There will be no fees to enter the awards or indeed if nominees are shortlisted, they won’t have to pay to come to the awards night either. In order to make this financially viable, we have 10 sponsors paying to cover the costs of the event, including Mimecast, Acumin, AlienVault, Netskope, Lastline, whiteCryption, Imperva, CrowdStrike, Publicis Groupe, Varonis, Proofpoint and GSK.
The whole ethos of Security Serious Week is to garner the cyber-security community to give something back and encourage others to take security more seriously in the hope that together we can create a more secure environment to do business and ultimately act as an enabler to make UK PLC a safer place to trade online.
THE DEADLINE FOR THE UNSUNG HEROES AWARDS HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO FRIDAY 22^ND JULY SO IF YOU THINK YOU ARE DESERVING OF AN AWARD OR WOULD LIKE TO NOMINATE SOMEONE WHO IS please go to www.securityserious.com.

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Kaspersky Warns of Potential Cyberattacks Against World Economic Forum Participants

The Gurus — Tue, 19 Jan 2016 10:20:36 +0000

The World Economic Forum gathers each year some of the world’s biggest political and business leaders, all in the area of a few square kilometers.
While this may be the perfect method of discussing and advancing sensitive world economic topics and various agendas, for infosec professionals, this is a nightmare scenario. Kaspersky security experts expect APT groups to intensify their efforts and attempt to hack into the computers and mobile devices of high-ranking officials from various countries and companies, gathered all on the same WiFi network, either at their hotels or the conferences.

Original source: Softpedia
View the full story here

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Which Programming Languages Get Used Most At Hackathons?

The Gurus — Wed, 29 Jul 2015 09:22:19 +0000

Picking a programming language to learn can be a stressful task. The trendy language at any given time isn’t necessarily one that anyone will care about in a year, much less the one that’ll get you the best gigs.
It’s interesting, then, to see what language programmers turn to when they’ve got their pick of the litter — when they’re coding not with some bosses’ wishes in mind, but when they’re just cracking away at a project for the hell of it.
Like, say, at a hackathon.
This morning, ChallengePost — a tool that acts as the backend infrastructure for a pretty good chunk of the hackathons that go down (including the ones we host before each TechCrunch Disrupt) — changed their name to Devpost. In celebration of the new name, they’ve released a big ol’ data dump of a bunch of stuff they’ve learned over the past year.
What mobile platforms show up at hackathons the most? Which programming languages are most popular? Which APIs do people tap most often?
After ~160 hackathons with nearly 10,000 projects by 13,281 hackers, they’ve got some answers. You can find their full report over here, but I’ve highlighted some of the most interesting stuff below.
The fan favorite mobile platforms? Android with 38.2%, iOS with 22.7%, and Windows Phone at a distant 4.9%. The remaining 34.2% seemingly didn’t mark a favorite.

view the full story here

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San Francisco salutes RSA Conference for another year

The Gurus — Fri, 01 May 2015 14:20:07 +0000

The dust has settled upon another RSA Conference and it was a pleasure to attend this industry’s largest and best security event.
After the debarcle in 2014 where a breakaway event allowed some speakers to withdraw from RSA Conference 2015 had a much more positive vibe with two large expo halls, track sessions in a different centre and keynotes from the industry’s finest names, Government and celebrities.
I arrived on Saturday 18th and attended BSIdes San Francisco on the Sunday. This was held at the offices of OpenDNS in SOMA and saw some excellent presentations on cloud security, media, coordinated actions and a panel from the EFF. Once again this format of conference proved to be a winner not only for the quality of speaker, but also for the community which backs and organises it.
The RSA conference began on Monday in some part, with initial sessions on the (ISC)2 Global Workforce Study and the skills shortage, which included a panel of people including Angela Messer, executive vice president of Booz Allen Hamilton, whom I wondered had considered the state of security skills considering the actions of a former member of staff!
As mentioned earlier, there were two full expo halls and these opened on the Monday evening. Personally I don’t see the benefit of the two halls, particularly as this divided the delegates into the two halls. However one hall was significantly larger than the other as it gave space to the start-ups who chose to exhibit, while other vendors took the opportunity to demonstrate new products and solutions, and give live presentations to interested visitors. In case you are short of pens, T-shirts and other swag, then this is the best place to stock up. For those with a large quantity already overflowing our cupboards and drawers, I prefer to talk to the people.
One key theme of the conference was that of threat intelligence. Whether it was the continued theme of information sharing (which dominated my last visit in 2013) or the concept of boosting existing technology with open source feeds, there was plenty of talk of the concept.
From the opening day keynote, this year delivered by RSA Security President Amit Yoran taking over from the established Art Coviello, who said that we should harness “credible sources of threat intelligence and leverage it for increased speed so analysts can respond to increased threats” as part of his ways to improve security, to Jeh Johnson from the Department of Homeland of Security saying that its departments are there to “get better intelligence to help you” to a very good presentation by Mark Orlando, director of cyber operations at Foreground Security who said: “There is a lot more to intelligence than indictators.”
Orlando’s talk was the most direct on the topic that I saw, where he made the telling comment that “if you are paying $100,000s you dont want it acting like a souped up IDS.”
I chose Orlando’s talk as he was addressing the subject directly, and I had heard plenty about the concept in the preceding months and met some of the new vendors operating in the space. It also meant missing the talk by Dan Geer, but I did manage to catch talks by other security “rockstars” including Bruce Schneier, Chris Hoff, Art Gilliand and Andy Ellis.
One of the things which has always drawn me to RSA Conference was the level of political presentation, and one of the best was a joint presentation between the White House’s Michael Daniel and Natalie Black from the Cabinet Office, which demonstrated the special relationship between the USA and UK and its shared interests in cyber crime and security matters. There are some recent success stories between Governments in terms of botnet takedowns and operations, while in discussion on the US Government issuing sanctions against those convicted of cyber crime, Black said that from a “UK perspective we are following this closely” and was talking to the UN and EU and this was an area it continued to observe.
Speaking of collaboration, one of the factors that make people return to RSA Conference is the social scene and this year saw a number of vendors work together to bring a better quality of party. Sadly as one of the hard-working Brits it was a struggle to maintain the stamina to do a full day and night, but as I said at the start of this blog, RSA Conference remains a great standard for IT security events and with a return set for the UK in early June, I hope the organisers can keep this event moving forward as this year was one of the best I had attended.

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BSides London and blogger awards announce line-ups

The Gurus — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 10:42:39 +0000

The line-ups for the European Security Blogger awards and BSides London have been announced.

Taking place on Tuesday 29^th April at Kensington and Chelsea Town Hall, tickets for the fourth BSides London will be held under the banner of “Connecting People & Agents of All Kinds”.

Following the content for presentation voting process, confirmed speakers include KPMG’s Stephen Bonner, analysts Aaron Finnon and Graham Sutherland and Jericho Forum and Global Identity Foundation co-founder Paul Simmonds. Full details can be found here and tickets will be made available where others are unable to attend.

The conference has already confirmed renowned industry speaker Trey Ford as its keynote speaker. Ford, who was chief organiser for the annual Blackhat conference in Las Vegas and is currently global security strategist at Rapid7, will present on the current proliferation of malware and other threats and discuss tactics for detection and containment.

Paul Batson, one of the organisers, said: “This year has been a real challenge due to a change in some of the core team but the community are really pulling together to make this another great BSides. Thomas and I really believe in the BSides concept of providing a free conference to allow those passionate about infosec to get together and talk about the things that really matter to the community.”

Also announced at the weekend was the shortlist for the 2014 European Security Blogger awards. With nine awards to be given out on the evening of the 30^th April, the shortlist for the nine awards is available here.

Organiser Brian Honan said: “The main goal of the event is to allow those within the security community, who share their knowledge via their blogs, to get to meet other likeminded individuals. The actual awards themselves are a fun distraction to the evening where those who do contribute to the community are recognised for their efforts.”

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BSides London announces first keynote

The Gurus — Tue, 01 Apr 2014 15:52:23 +0000

BSides London has announced renowned industry speaker Trey Ford as its keynote speaker, as it opens the voting for its 2014 talks.
Ford, who was the chief organiser for the annual Blackhat conference in Las Vegas and is currently global security strategist at Rapid7, will present on the current proliferation of malware and other threats and discuss tactics for detection and containment.

With a month to go, BSides London has closed its content for presentation and opened the voting process. With 38 talks submitted from speakers including representatives from academia, penetration testers, independent researchers and vendors, delegates and the wider industry are now asked to vote on which talks will take place at the fourth annual BSides London event. Votes can be cast here.

Held under the banner of “Connecting People & Agents of All Kinds”, the voted-on talks that will be spread across two tracks in the Great Hall and the Small Hall of the Town Hall, which takes place on Tuesday April 29^th at Kensington and Chelsea Town Hall in London. Tickets are now sold out, but organisers encouraged other would-be attendees to apply to join the waiting list and tickets will be released if others cannot attend.

Voting on the talks is open until 2300 GMT on Wednesday 2^nd April and has a variety of subjects covered, for example Android systems, intrusion detection, threat modelling and detection and profiling attackers. The range includes business focussed talks all the way to very technical research presentations.

The show will also see various workshops held, and the return of the rookie track for aspiring presenters. Platinum sponsors include MWR Infosecurity, Tenable, Nebulas and KPMG.

Lawrence Munro, head of consulting services at Nebulas, said: “We’re proud to sponsor BSides London again this year and are thrilled to see its popularity increase and the event become a true landmark in the Security community calendar.”

Jonathan Brody, VP of Marketing at Tenable: “Tenable supports Security BSides to encourage the work they do to improv
e local access to security expertise – globally.”

Martyn Ruks, technical director at MWR Infosecurity, said: “At MWR we invest heavily in research and knowledge sharing. We believe that events such as BSides London are invaluable to the community, providing a platform for discussion on the latest research in the InfoSec arena. BSides is an event that gives something back and we are proud to be a part of it once again.”

Paul Batson, one of the organisers, said “This year has been a real challenge due to a change in some of the core team but the community are really pulling together to make this another great B-Sides. Thomas and I really believe in the B-Sides concept of providing a free conference to allow those passionate about infosec to get together and talk about the things that really matter to the community”.

For more information, visit the website at www.securitybsides.org.uk or follow BSides London on Twitter @BSidesLondon

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Security B-Sides London tickets on sale Sunday

The Gurus — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 13:38:28 +0000

Tickets for this year’s Security B-Sides London conference will go on sale this Sunday.

Released this Sunday at 11am, tickets for the community-driven event sold out in a matter of minutes last year for the event held on Tuesday April 29^th at Kensington and Chelsea Town Hall in London.

Held under the banner of “Connecting People & Agents of All Kinds”, the content for presentation opportunity is currently open for talks that will be spread across two tracks in the Great Hall and the Small Hall of the Town Hall, with capacity for 500 and 175 respectively.

Potential speakers can now submit their ideas for talks via the call for presentation via the website – http://bit.ly/BSidesLDN2014-CfP. The deadline for entries is 3rd March and entrants will be notified on the 24th March.

Opportunities to enter workshop ideas are also open as is the opportunity to create this year’s logo.

Security B-Sides London has also confirmed sponsorship with Nebulas, Tenable and MWR Security.

Lawrence Munro, head of consulting services at Nebulas, said: “Nebulas is the UK’s largest independent cyber security specialist. We offer the technical expertise, advice, services and support to protect and maintain the security of your business. We’re an experienced, professional team that understand the security challenges you face and we’re passionate about helping you resolve them.

“We’re proud to sponsor BSides London again this year and are thrilled to see its popularity increase and the event become a true landmark in the Security community calendar.”

For more information, visit the website at www.securitybsides.org.uk.

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Security B-Sides London confirms sponsors

The Gurus — Fri, 24 Jan 2014 10:02:15 +0000

Security B-Sides London returns in 2014, and is delighted to welcome back platinum sponsors Nebulas, MWR Security and Tenable Network Security.

Held on Tuesday, 29th April under the banner of “Connecting People & Agents of All Kinds”, the community-driven event will again be held at Kensington Town Hall, conveniently located next to High Street Kensington tube station and a short tube ride from Earls Court.

Martyn Ruks, technical director at MWR Security, said: “At MWR we invest heavily in research and knowledge sharing. We believe that events such as BSides London are invaluable to the community, providing a platform for discussion on the latest research in the InfoSec arena. BSides is an event that gives something back and we are proud to be a part of it once again.”

This year, the conference’s talks will be spread across two tracks, held in the Great Hall and the Small Hall of the Town Hall, with capacity for 500 and 175 respectively. Also available are workshops, challenges and the rookie track for the next generation of conference speakers, where mentors are available. In the spirit of this conference, a third “unscheduled track” is also available, so there is always room for the unexpected.

Potential speakers can now submit their ideas for talks via the call for presentation via the website – http://bit.ly/BSidesLDN2014-CfP. The deadline for entries is 3rd March and entrants will be notified on the 24th March.

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B-Sides returns to London in 2014

The Gurus — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 13:01:37 +0000

Security B-Sides London will return to the UK in 2014, to be held on Tuesday the 29th April.

Under the banner of “Connecting People & Agents of All Kinds”, the community-driven event will again be held at Kensington Town Hall. Past speakers at B-Sides London have included penetration testers, industry analysts and leading consultants from the information security space.

Security B-Sides London welcomes all content for presentation ideas from prospective speakers; talks are selected by the ticket holders so the final schedule reflects what the attendees want to hear.

Security B-Sides London founder and ex-director Soraya Viloria Montes de Oca said: “B-Sides London is a con that belongs to the community, if you want it to happen you have to volunteer and make it happen. Every new team member brings fresh ideas and energy.

“At B-SidesLondon you come and never want to leave. You are a challenge winner one year, then become a challenge creators the next and a presenters the following. That applies to almost role, speakers become volunteers, rookies become mentors … for those who care is a living thing.”

Talks will be spread across two tracks, held in the Great Hall and the Small Hall of the Town Hall, with capacity for 500 and 175 respectively. Also available are workshops, challenges and the rookie track for the next generation of conference speakers, where mentors are available. In the spirit of this conference, a third “unscheduled track” is also available, so there is always room for the unexpected.

The release date for tickets will be announced soon, as will the opening and closing date for content for presentation at the conference. For more information, visit the website at www.securitybsides.org.uk.

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