08:20 - 08:55   Breakfast Briefing

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Reducing Risk Through Automated Threat Profiling

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• Benefits of automated threat profiling - why we do it & why is it challenging

• How can we prioritise threat actors & malware more dynamically and in real-time

• How can we operationalise the output to further protect our organisation

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Serge Palladino, Principal Consultant: Intelligence Advisory Services EMEA, Recorded Future 
& Jai Aenugu, Founder, TechForce Cyber

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SESSION 1

With an ever-changing security backdrop and a constant pipeline of new threats and vulnerabilities, it can be hard just to keep up - let alone stay ahead. In the opening session, we will look at proactive measures that leaders can take to help their organisation adopt a more strategic approach to security, and improve their ability to anticipate and mitigate threats. 

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09:15    Welcome and Introduction

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Mark Stephen, Journalist & Broadcaster

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09:25    Shifting to a Proactive Stance on Strategic Threat Intelligence

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• Cyber Security is inextricably linked to Geo Politics and Socio-technical trends

• In order to effectively operationalise CTI, it is essential to be pro-active rather than re-active

• Increasingly leadership is turning to strategic threat intelligence to identify trends & create long-term plans

• This enables organisations to define their security posture and prioritise resources to priority threats

• This requires strong collaboration across teams to ensure it informs and is informed by operational and tactical threat intelligence

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Harriet Rogers, Strategic Cyber Threat Intelligence Specialist, BAE Systems

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09:50    More than Monitoring: Proactive Security made Simple and Human

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• More than "Monitoring": security must be proactive and together you can de-silo

• The carrot or the stick: get the business to clean up its tech debt

• Communicating to "non-technical people"

• Trickle up: cyber risk is business risk

• Cyber beyond protection: security as an enabler

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Celine Pypaert, Security Transformation Manager, Johnson Matthey

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10:15    Unleashing AI for Effective Defence

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• Organisations must focus on addressing the dynamic and rapidly evolving nature of cyber threats.

• Provide insight into the critical process of integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into cybersecurity operations.

• Understand the practical steps and strategies to harness AI for enhancing your organisation’s cybersecurity posture in an ever-changing threat landscape

• Real life AI relevant use cases

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Elliott Went, Senior Systems Engineer, SentinelOne 

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10:35    Q&A​

11:00    Refreshments & Networking

SESSION 2

Session 2 will explore a series of key topics in a longer presentation format. The session will be run in a breakout format across four parallel streams, providing delegates the opportunity to attend two options.

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11:35    First Breakout Option (A-D)

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A. IT & OT: Collaborating to Protect Critical Infrastructure

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• Where can IT and OT bring experiences from their separate contexts to collaborate 

• How can this ultimately improve how our critical OT assets are protected

• How will this help us contend with an ever-changing and escalating set of external threats

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Iain Dougan, Head of Operational Technology and Cyber, SSEN Transmission

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B. Fraud Detection and Prevention: Leveraging Advanced Techniques to Safeguard the Marketplace 

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• Unique Fraud Challenges in Marketplaces

• Common Fraud Types

• Advanced Detection Techniques

• Multi-Layered Prevention Strategies

• Real-world Case Studies

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Maxim Filatov, Data Scientist, Meta

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C. Demystification of XDR

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• Quick evolution of XDR

• What it is and what it does

• Where XDR fits best

• Examples of XDR operations

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Ryan McConechy, CTO, Barrier Networks

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D. How To Create Successful Malware and Defend with Zero Trust
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• Recognise the ease of creating or using AI-generated malware, highlighting the need for strong cybersecurity.

• Implement a default-deny security posture, allowing only authorised connections and processes.

• Apply Zero Trust principles to continuously validate and secure all users and devices.

• Protect data and maintain operations even during cyber-attacks.

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Eoin McGrath, Solutions Engineer, ThreatLocker

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12:10    Transition
12:15    Second Breakout Option (E-H)

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Breakout options include:

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E. Proactive Risk Reduction in an Age of Exponential Vulnerabilities

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• What is the state of the threat landscape

• Why is proactive risk reduction critical to keeping a secure environment in today's day and age

• How can we implement safe automations to keep a baseline of compliance to continuously lower risk in our environments 

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Katherine Chipdey, Director: Solutions Engineering and Alliances, Automox

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F. From Quishing to Deepfakes: The latest phishing threat trends for 2024

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• The rise of Quishing and evolution of payloads

• How AI is used in phishing attacks, including deepfakes

• How multi-channel attacks play out

• The threats that are getting through secure email gateways

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James Dyer, Threat Intelligence Lead, Egress

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G. How do you win at Cyber Security, a strategic approach.

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• Review of the technological trends over the last few decades and priorities heading into 2024

• Taking a deeper dive into Visibility and Control - you cannot protect it if you cannot see it

• Maintaining a good IT hygiene posture through Continuous Safeguarding

• Do you have the right tools around Detection and Countermeasures

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Ben Hall, Director of Technical Account Management, Tanium

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H. Security Operations – Develop, not operate, your way to success

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• Detection quality over quantity

• Why a flat structure beats tiers every time

• Automate until you can’t. Then automate some more

• But humans still win…

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Kevin Robertson, Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder, Acumen Cyber

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12:45    Lunch & Networking

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SESSION 3

The afternoon session will look at reducing risk by focusing on a few prominent areas that are currently impacting security practitioners, including: data protection, business resilience, and AI governance. The programme will then conclude with a look at improving our response to a major attack, taking a CISO's walkthrough of what really happens in the trenches when a full-scale hack occurs at your organisation - and how you can better prepare to deal with it. 

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13:35 Breakout Selection (I-K)

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I. What are the odds of ....  Somewhere between 78 minutes and 8.5 million computers 

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• Context: A massive, recent, globe-spanning outage of IT systems 

• A review of the incident and how it was handled

• What happened in the world

• The aftermath

• What we can take from the issue to improve our own resilience, attitudes + controls.

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David McKenzie, Ethical Hacker & Blue Team Specialist

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J. Security & AI: Do We Really Need New Governance? 

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• Culture change, awareness, and shadow AI

• Suppliers using AI: What you need to ask your vendors and why

• Developing AI: Considerations to maximise the benefits while minimising the harm

• We already have some good tools and process: we just need to know how to apply it to AI

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Rachel Close, Senior Responsible AI Manager, BBC

K. Cybersecurity and the GDPR - Mission Impossible? 

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• How to embed good data governance into a digital strategy by default 

• Some of the common challenges and vulnerabilities in managing / sharing data in enterprise environments

• Proactive ways to address some of these issues – key learnings, best practice​

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Katharina West, Head of Information Governance, The Scottish Government

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14:05    Transition to main stage

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14:10    So You've Been Hacked - Now What?

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• Preparation and identification

• Containment, eradication and recovery

• Lessons learned… and now what

• The psychological impact, helping your team, customer, partners

• The bit no-one talks about

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Lena Smart, CISO & Business Consultant

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14:35    Combined Q&A

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• Katharina West, Head of Information Governance, The Scottish Government

• Rachel Close, Senior Responsible AI Manager, BBC

• Lena Smart, CISO & Business Consultant

• David McKenzie, Ethical Hacker & Blue Team Specialist

• Mark Stephen, Journalist & Broadcaster

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15:10    Closing Remarks

15:15    End of Programme

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15:15    Networking & Drinks Reception

16:30   Conference Close

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*The conference agenda is provisional and subject to change