An International Perspective on Cyber Security
Moderator:
Nick Coleman, Global Head, Cyber Security Intelligence, IBM
Nick Coleman is a world leading authority on Cyber Security. He serves on a number of advisory boards for Venture Capital Backed Startups. He was formerly The National Reviewer of Security of the UK Government and Authored “The Colemen Report” published in the Houses of Parliament. He is now Global Cyber Intelligence Head at IBM. He is also Chair of the Technology panel at the Institution of Engineering and Technology, the global Engineering body with 165,000 members. He is a Visiting Professor at Lancaster University Cyber Security Institute of Research Excel- lence. He is an appointed Advisor to the European Union Security Agency, ENISA, where he serves on the Perma- nent Stakeholders Group. Before security, he had a career in business. He holds an M.B.A. with Distinction from Manchester Business School.
Panelists:
Athanasios Drougkas, Officer in Network and Information Security, European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA)
Dr. Athanasios Drougkas is an Officer in Network and Information Security at the European Union Agency for Net- work and Information Security (ENISA). His domains of activity in ENISA currently include the Digital Single Market and NIS industry, cybersecurity in eHealth, Cyber-insurance and security in the Finance sector. In the past he has held various positions within the ICT industry in cross-functional domains, including Project Management, Presales, R&D and Technical Consulting. Dr. Drougkas holds a BSc./MSc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a Ph.D. in Telecommunications from the National Technical University of Athens. Dario Forte is the Founder and CEO of DF Labs, which he launched in January 2003. Dario is responsible for all strategy and execution with a focus on the Company’s key areas of information security, incident management, and response. Dario personally has more than 20 years of experience in Incident Response and Cyber Investigations, and started his career as a police officer, a position he held for more than 15 years. After leaving the police force, Dario worked as an IT Analyst for Agepe, an IT risk management consulting firm, for three years before establishing DF Labs. Dario received a degree in Organizational Sciences from University of Turin, his M.B.A. from University of Liverpool, and completed the Executive Education: Leading Professional Service Firms program at Harvard Business School. Ed Macnair joined CensorNet as CEO in November 2014 with the mission of accelerating the company’s product development efforts and aggressively growing web security revenues through its global channel partners. Ed has over 30 years of sales and business development experience in the technology and IT security industries. Before joining CensorNet, Ed was founder and CEO of SaaSID, a UK based single sign-on and application security vendor, which was acquired by Intermedia in September 2013. He also previously held the position of CEO at Marshal, a global web and email security company. Ed received a degree from the Royal School of Military Engineering. Richard Seewald is Founder and Managing Partner at Evolution Equity Partners. After founding the firm in January 2010, Richard has focused on investing in high growth businesses that apply technology to help solve problems for consumers and enterprises primarily in information security, enterprise software and services, and consumer related areas. Past investments include AVG Technologies, Cognitive Security, and OpenDNS. Prior to Evolution, Richard was a Partner at Alpha Associates Zurich for over 11 years. Richard received his B.A. in Communications from Pace University, his J.D. from New York Law School, and his M.B.A. from University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Alex is Managing Partner, Early Stage Funds, at global technology investor Amadeus Capital Partners, where his current investment focus areas include artificial intelligence, machine learning, autonomous vehicles, cloud compu- ting, cyber security, digital healthcare and medical technology. He co-founded Europe’s first cyber security accelera- tor Cyber London, and he was recently a member of the Steering Group for the Royal Society Cyber Security Re- search Report. In 1996, Alex co-founded nCipher to develop internet security products using advanced cryptography. As nCipher’s CEO, he subsequently led the company to a listing on the London Stock Exchange in 2000. nCipher was sold to Thales SA in 2008. He was appointed an Entrepreneur in Residence at the Judge Business School, Uni- Dario Forte, Founder, Chief Executive Officer, DF Labs Ed Macnair, Chief Executive Officer, CensorNet Richard Seewald, Founder and Managing Partner, Evolution Equity Partners Alex van Someren, Managing Partner, Amadeus Capital
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