Confirmed Speakers

In 2011 the conference will focus on the combination of defensive and offensive aspects of Cyber Forces and will combine different views on cyber defense and operations in the current and envisaged threat environments.
Following different workshops on 7 June, conference panels start in the morning of Wednesday, 8 June and finish on Friday, 10 June around noon. A detailed agenda will be published in April.

Confirmed Speakers 

Keynote: Major General Jonathan Shaw, Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff for Global Issues UK MoD. 
Maj Gen Shaw will explore the UK's requirement for specialist cyber operators and leaders able to exploit their skills in a cyber-aware future military force. 

Keynote: Charlie Miller,  Independent Security Evaluators

Mr Miller will discuss why vendors have stopped looking for bugs and how they hope anti-exploitation technologies will save them. This talk will discuss how these technologies work, what platforms and applications use them, and what they mean for attackers and defenders.

Mikko Hypponen, F-Secure  
Mr Hypponen will show in practice what cyber espionage looks like. Espionage is about collecting information. Today information is stored on computers and networks, making them potentially accesible from anywhere in the world. As a result, state-sponsored espionage is happening increasingly with computer attacks such as backdoors and remote trojans.

Keren Elazari, Verint Systems
Ms Elazari will present in brief and examine some of the forensic technologies  on the network layer explaining how they can be utilized in order to identify, defend against and even preempt sophisticated cyber attacks and those stealthy cyber threats nicknamed "APT".

Richard LaTulip, Special Agent, United States Secret Service, Operation Carder Kaos. 
Mr LaTulip will speak on  the undercover operations, logistics and aspects of Operation Carder Kaos. (i.e. TJX/Heartland/Maksik).

Iosif Androulidakis,  Ioannina University. 
Mr Androulidakis will give a presentation on PBX Security, Interception and Forensics tutorial with all the necessary theoretical and practical background, plus a demo of PBX hacking.

Raoul Chiesa,  United Nations Interregional Crime & Justice Research Institute. 
Mr Chiesa will analyze the hacker's roots and the evolution of the so-called "hacking underground" but also nowaday's hacking, driven by money and organized crime, zooming on today's "Underground Economy".

Jart Armin,  HostExploit
Mr Armin's presentation and paper examines three crucial steps in handling botnets. Firstly,  methods to quantify the numbers of zombies out there. Secondly, understand and apply the methodologies of locating the errant devices. Finally, to consider the infected zombies as we would in a human public health scenario; quarantine and re-mediate.

Charl van der Walt, Sensepost
Mr van der Walt will talk about the fundamental shift in the world of information security during 2010 caused by Stuxnet, "Aurora", "Wikileaks" and "Anonymous".  He will stand back from the changes that are currently sweeping our world and offer his observations and thoughts.

Ralph Langner, Langner Communications GmbH
Mr Langner's deep level analysis of the Stuxnet malware had a large impact on our collective understanding of the real risks to be addressed in critical infrastructure protection.

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