3rd Annual Cyber Security Summit
11 - 12 Apr 2013, Prague, Czech Republic

Rik, VP Security Research at Trend Micro, is one of the leading experts in information security. With over eighteen years experience in information security, Rik has been with Trend Micro since 2007.He is an advisor to the EU Safer Internet Forum, The Information Security Alliance EURIM, a project leader with Europol and the International Cyber Security Prevention Alliance (ICSPA), a director of Get Safe Online, Vice Chair of the Centre for Strategic Cyberspace & Security Science and advisor to various UK government technology forums. In April 2011 Rik was inducted into the Infosecurity Hall of Fame.

Graham Welch is Managing Director of EMEA operations for Sourcefire, Inc. (Nasdaq: FIRE), the creator of Snort® and a global leader in intelligent cybersecurity solutions. In this position he is responsible for corporate operations across the region, including sales, business development and strategic marketing activities.  Bringing 17 years of experience managing European sales operations for U.S.-based security companies, Welch joined the company in April 2003 as European sales manager and the company’s first international employee. Before joining Sourcefire, Welch was area vice president for UK, Ireland, France and Benelux at RSA Security, where he was responsible for a significant portion of RSA’s EMEA revenues. While at RSA Security, he built the UK business from $5 million per annum to more than $25 million in just five years. Previously, Welch held major account sales and channel positions at technology manufacturer Tektronix Inc. and UK distributor Golden Gate. Widely recognized for his knowledge of the security industry, Welch is a regular speaker at industry conferences and has contributed articles to IT and security publications across the European media. Welch graduated with a B.S.C. Honours  in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Plymouth.

Alexander‘s career is built based on international experience, working in multinational companies and international environments. He has been able to adapt quickly and efficiently to all new working environments, considering also, but not limited to cultural differences.

Out of the 7+ year experience in the Information Security field, four of them represent his latest professional success as Information Security Manager within OMV Group, the Oil & Gas industry’s market leader in Central and Eastern Europe. From the most relevant topics he handled during this period, he could nominate the implementation of Information Risk Management Program, Information Security Management System (ISMS), development, documentation and maintenance of Information Security Standards, presentation of Information Security education, awareness and training activities for users, Business Impact Analysis, IT Risk Assessments, Gap analysis & mitigation activities, Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning, Readiness exercises in order to obtain ISO 27001 and PCI DSS certifications, Penetration testing activities … The three words which describe Alex best are vision, enthusiasm and initiative.

Mohammed Aldoub is a Computer Engineer and Information Security specialist from Kuwait, he worked at developing various security and cryptographic systems for the government of Kuwait, he volunteers at OWASP, where he is Kuwait's chapter leader, and also volunteers at the Tor Project, the Guardian Project and others. He works as secure systems engineer in the government and as an independent Security Consultant.

Mr. Johan Rambi is Alliance Manager Privacy & Security at Alliander in the Netherlands and supports the organization with the development of Smart Meter/Grid Cyber Security as a subject matter expert. Furthermore, Johan is chairman of the Dutch DSO Policy Committee Privacy & Security from Netbeheer Netherland, who developed the Dutch Privacy & Security sector requirements for Advanced Metering Infrastructure. In Europe Johan is active in several EC expert groups and standardization committees on Smart Meter Privacy & Security / Smart Grid Cyber Security. Johan is a known speaker at several conferences on SCADA and Smart Grid Cyber Security. Before Johan joined Alliander, he worked as security architect and consultant at different organizations for the last 15 years.

Marek has got many years of experience in penetration testing, including banking systems and electronic banking in several Polish banks and financial institutions. Currently he is testing internal system in The Royal Bank of Scotland. He holds the OSCP and OSCE certificate from Offensive Security. He is OWASP Poland Board Member. He graduated the Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology on Warsaw University of Technology.

Having worked in information security for more than 10 years, Joerg started his career with a startup technology consulting company based in Germany, followed by a journey through the IT landscape including writing code for high-speed multi-gigabit packet switches. Before joining Barclays Bank PLC in 2008 as the Attack Monitoring Manager for the global Intrusion Detection Programme he was the CSO of infoServe GmbH, a Internet Service Provider offering creative solutions around managed security services and customised gateway developments. Currently, as the Group Director for Attack Monitoring, his team is developing new and creative solutions to stay ahead of potential attackers to protect Barclays' customers by combining off the shelf products with custom developed capabilities. Joerg is actively involved in malware and botnet research, working with different groups to better understand the cyber threat landscape as it evolves over time.

In March 2003, Jan took on the position as Head of Group Security in SEB, which is a leading North European business bank with approximately 20,000 employees and current operations in some 20 countries. Prior to this, he was Head of Security at the Swedish telecom operator Tele2. He has also been working as a security analyst for Sweden Post. Jan has a background in the Swedish Security Service and as a police officer at the Stockholm County Police.

Jan Persson has a broad experience in the security area with a special focus on fraud prevention and risk management for foreign investors in the Baltics and the former Soviet Union. He holds a Masters Degree in Estonian and Economics. He is also a board member of the International Banking Security Association (IBSA).

In 2008 Jan was awarded the annual security grant from the Swedish Confederation of Enterprise.

As the global head of Security Operations for one of the Netherland's largest banks, Jethro Cornelissen is responsible for providing strategic Security Operations solutions and services to the Rabobank International Wholesale, International Retail and Rural Business. He oversees the teams to ensure these global solutions are delivered in a well-controlled, timely and cost effective manner. He has extensive experience in IT risk, Security management and Security Intelligence. Prior to joining Rabobank International, Cornelissen held senior IT and security positions at HBOS Plc. (Lloyds Banking Group), Clerical Medical Financial Services B.V., Vodafone and ABN AMRO Bank N.V. Asset Management.

After Dr. Christian Reiser started in fault tolerant real time computersystems he became expert in information security and works in that areafor about 20 years with special focus on organizational and human aspects. Besides his main profession as security specialist for Erste Group BankAG he is Lector at an University for Applied Science (Fachhochschule)and gives specialized trainings from time to time.

Philipp Schaumann has been working  „in the IT“for more than 30 years. In the last 20 years he was concentrating mainly on the security aspects. He is very much interested in the organisational and human / psychological aspects of information security that are quite often neglected and that cause so many security problems. Philipp is working as security specialist for the Erste Group Bank AG in Vienna and privately maintains a large German language security website:http://sicherheitskultur.at/

Pierre Chassigneux, 49, is Chief Risk and Audit Officer at Cartes Bancaires, one of the largest Card Payment Scheme in Europe. He holds degrees in Information Systems Security and National Defense studdies. He started his career as an engineer in the French Defense Ministry and after in the French Information Systems Security Agency. He then joined Gemplus as the manager of e-signature Department and later took his present position at Cartes Bancaires in 2001.

Mr. Josef Šedivý is Information Security Officer at ?SOB. His main role is to implement and keep alive the security governance and management framework for information risk in the company, define the policies and procedures in the information security area and actively advise the business in taking effective business desicions with regard to the information risk. Josef has over 9 years experience in the information security and risk management areas. Before joining ?SOB Josef worked with Deloitte as Senior Information Security Consultant. Josef is member of ISACA and (ISC)².

Giuseppe Abbamonte is Italian qualified lawyer ("avvocato") and has been working as a Commission official since June 1992. Before joining the Commission he was an associate in the law firm Allen & Overy in Milan for four years (1989/1992). In the Commission he has worked in five DGs (TREN, COMP, SANCO, JLS and INFSO). During the first five years (1992/1997) in TREN, he was responsible for State aid control in the air transport sector (e.g. Air France, TAP and Aer Lingus). In 1997 he joined COMP as the State aid expert and for one year he was responsible for some complex State aid cases in the French postal sector.

In 1998 he joined the Merger Task Force. For four years worked as desk officer on numerous prominent mergers and acquisitions, became expert in digital media markets, particularly those involving online distribution of audio-visual content, e.g. AOL/Time Warner and in EMI/Time Warner, Telia/Telenor: the merger of the main Swedish and Norwegian telephone and TV operators.

In 2001 he moved to SANCO as Deputy Head of a Legal Unit, responsible for most EU consumer laws and became Head of the Unit in 2005 with promotion to AD13 in 2008. He was involved in EU policy making and the impact assessment culture, bringing old regulatory framework up to date with market developments, particularly on-line. Producing good legislation, which is principle based and technologically neutral has been a major challenge. His main legislative files were the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive.As a result of the reorganisation of the Barroso II Commission, his unit was moved to JLS where he was responsible, in addition to consumer law, for developing general European contract law.

From January 2011 he was the Head of the Electronic Communications Policy Development Unit in INFSO. His main files include on-line privacy, universal service obligations, net neutrality and the CEO Roundtable on the sustainability of the Internet ecosystem and the broadband investment framework.

From the first of July 2012 he acts as the Head of the Trust and Security Unit, in the new DG CONNECT department (former INFSO).

Giuseppe is an author of several publications mainly in English law magazines and is a member of the Advisory Board of the Centre of Competition Policy of the University of East Anglia. 

Ricardo joined the Zurich group in July 2010 as responsible for Risk Management, Information Security and Compliance for the General Insurance IT center in Barcelona. Since joining he has been mainly concerned about embedding into the organization the early identification and mitigation of risk issues, building confidence with stakeholders that risk management is effective; delivering a consistent approach to IT Risk and Security; and promoting a culture of integrity, ethics and compliance. Before joining Zurich he worked at Arthur Andersen, Ernst&Young and Adecco, and has been servicing organizations in America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. He has a degree in Information Science and is Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT; and Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control by ISACA.

Dr Panagiotis Trimintzios is managing the area of Cyber Crisis Exercises and Cooperation within the Information Security and Data Protection Unit at the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA), where he works since 2005. He was the director of Cyber Europe 2010, the first pan European large scale cyber exercise, Cyber Atlantic 2011, the first EU-US cyber exercise, Cyber Europe 2012, the second pan European exercise with over 500 participants. His other projects in the area of cyber crisis cooperation and management include studies on National Cyber Contingency Plans, National Risk Assessment, pan European Cooperation Operational Procedures etc. In the past he managed studies on Resilience Metrics, Resilience of the Internet Interconnection Ecosystem (Inter-X). For many years he was the Editor-in-Chief of ENISA’s Quarterly Review. Dr Trimintzios holds a BSc on Computer Science, an MSc on Computer Networks and Telecommunications, a PhD on IP Networks Management, while prior ENISA for many years worked as a researcher managing European and nationally funded projects in his areas of expertise. He has published over 60 papers in scientific journals, magazines, and international conferences.

Mahmoud Yassin, Lead Information Security Engineer at the National Bank of Abu Dhabi is manager of the Command Center Team for System & Security Monitoring, responsible for Security Operation Assurance.

Amongst his professional networking groups are the (ISC)² UAE Chapterand holding chair of chapter president elected and hired by ISC2 board members , Mahmoud initiated the chapter in UAE

membership of the ISACA COBIT 5 review member group and he has had articles published with InfoSec Island a reputable group for information security community.

Many published articles in  ISACA like mobile Security , BYOD hacking 9 magazine

Mahmoud has contributed to several Information Security related events in the UAE and he is member of various security groups as the UAE AAA, ISACA, (ISC)² and the Identity Management Institute just to name a few.

He has 16 years of experience in the Infrastructure Field, having worked over 10 years as Infrastructure Security Architect for multinational organizations such as Microsoft and Fujitsu.

Mahmoud owns a BSE from the University of Cairo and a Master’s degree in Information Security from the University of Fairfax.

During his extensive career Mahmoud has obtained professional certificates such as CISSP, CISA, CRISC, PMP, COBIT, ITIL, MCSE.

Coen Bongers is Risk & Control Officer for the Platform Security at Philips, is MCSE, CISSP and CISA certified and studied Technical Computer Science in Arnhem, the Netherlands. He started his career in 1987 and worked in many fields within the IT industry, such as IT support, firewall management and consultancy. For several years Coen worked for the Dutch Defense Department as Military Police Officer and Firearms Instructor. Because of this background he was later asked to join the Philips Security team during days of LovGate, Nimda and CodeRed.  Within Philips, Coen worked as IT Risk assessor, Security analyst and CSIRT Team Lead. He has been involved in response to many severe incidents. Currently Coen is performing web application security testing, IT risk assessments and security incident response support. He works closely with the CIS Office, security architects and external organizations such as the Dutch NCSC.

Mustafa KOMUT graduated from Kings College,University of London . He is a Computer Engineer (B.Sc,M.Sc) , worked in Banking Industry for several years.He managed IT operations at several banks located in Turkey. He is a Security and Audit Professional. Now he works at Vodafone Turkey as a Business Continuity Senior Manager . Main domain of his special interest, and professional work he already performed as .

• BC & DR (Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery)
• Crisis Management
• Emergency Management
• ISO 27001 -ISMS
• BS 25999 –BCMS
• COBIT
• GRC (Governance Risk and Compliance ) & IT Governance
• PCI
• E?signature & Mobile Signature
• CPN (Converged Packed Network)
• Network monitoring?Alert Monitoring (Level1&2 Support)
• Performance Measurement of IP network
• Identification of root cause events
• PKI
• Encyrption

He writes several articles, and journals. He is also a member of ISACA,IEEE, and Vice President of ISSA Turkey Chapter
Specialities
CISA,ISO 9001 LA,COBIT,ISO 27001,BS 2