About the Course:
It is undeniable that the coronavirus crisis is affecting our daily lives and how we conduct business. It is no longer feasible to think that we can return to the practices we started the year with as we strive to establish a new normal. Many companies have announced permanent remote working policies among many other policy changes.
In an effort to adapt to the new challenges brought on by the pandemic, companies quickly altered their processes, brought in new practices, and implemented new software. Since these changes were believed to be temporary, there was a lack of emphasis on analyzing the risks and benefits of the changes made. In fact, many of the changes made have huge security, privacy, cyber hygiene, and data governance implications. Many companies cut corners, for example, by starting the use of cloud databases without analyzing its possible consequences and by building virtual bridges between companies without proper assessment of possible third party information security risks. Furthermore, the cybercrime threat actors were very fast to exploit the situation, resulting in a real cybercrime pandemic.
Now, criminal enterprises are in the process of converting their most successful attacks into mass-market customized crimeware tools and services. Increasingly, criminal enterprises are building service businesses around their operations. Ransomware-as-a-Service, for example, is one of the fastest growing areas of cybercrime.
Join us and our world-class subject-matter experts for an educational 4-hour online course on October 14th,2020, to learn about the latest updates and emerging threat trends, so that you can stay informed and be prepared. Learn about risks you may have unknowingly assumed and the steps you can take to protect you and your business with practical mitigation strategies. Online course model and the planned schedule makes it possible to join us around the globe.
The course is aimed at public and private sector decision-makers in charge of adapting to the "new normal.” Participation of leaders in the following positions is highly recommended: IT/OT security, strategy officers, risk and compliance managers.
Course Instructors:
Mårten Mickos
Mårten Mickos is the CEO of HackerOne, the leading provider world-wide of hacker-powered security. Previously Marten was the CEO of Eucalyptus Systems, acquired by Hewlett-Packard where he served as head of the cloud business.
Earlier in his career, he was the CEO of MySQL AB from 2001 to 2008. As CEO he was also a board member of MySQL AB 2003-2008, at Eucalyptus 2010-2014 and now at HackerOne since 2015. In addition, Mårten was on the board of Nokia from 2012 to 2015, RightScale 2009-2010, Electrosonic Corporation 2010-2012. He is also on the board of the Node.JS Foundation and was previously on the board of Mozilla Messaging.
He is a vocal proponent of diversity and inclusion, taking action by mentoring female executives, investing in female-founded startups, and is an active member of the Boardlist. Mårten holds a M.Sc. in technical physics from Helsinki University of Technology in his native Finland. He publishes a blog about leadership and management on his website the School of Herring.
Harri Hursti
Mr. Harri Hursti is a world-renowned data security expert, internet visionary and serial entrepreneur. He began his career as the prodigy behind the first commercial, public email and online forum system in Scandinavia. He founded his first company at the age of 13 and went on to co-found EUnet-Finland in his mid- 20’s. He is considered one of the world’s foremost experts on the topic of electronic voting security, having served in all aspects of the industry sector. He is considered an authority on uncovering critical problems in electronic voting systems worldwide.
As an ethical hacker, Mr. Hursti is famously known for his successful attempt to demonstrate how the Diebold Election Systems’ voting machines could be hacked, ultimately altering final voting results. Mr. Hursti was hired by the nonprofit elections watchdog group, where he performed two voting machine hacking tests, which became widely known as the Hursti Hacks. In response to these successful hacks, California’s Secretary of State commissioned a special report by scientists at UC Berkeley to investigate the results and confirm the validity of the testing methodology used in the Hursti Hack. These tests were filmed and turned into an acclaimed HBO documentary called Hacking Democracy which was nominated for an Emmy award for outstanding investigative journalism. In 2020, Mr. Hursti also starred in the HBO documentary Kill Chain: The Cyber War on America's Elections, in which he uncovers the short-comings of the electronic voting system in the U.S.
In the area of critical infrastructure, Mr. Hursti completed an assignment organized by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in February 2014, where he assumed the role of COO of an imaginary $53B critical infrastructure company in a cybersecurity attack simulation. For his research and work on data security and data privacy Mr. Hursti received the EFFI Winston Smith Award in 2008 and the EFF Pioneer Award in 2009.
Topics Covered:
The course is not limited to, but includes the following topics:
How to secure your operations and new challenges of inter-organization communication
How to safeguard sensitive data and documents and maintain data governance
Latest news, security breaches, and trends in global security
COVID-19 as a driver for cybercrime explosion and scams
Upcoming elections in the United States from the cybersecurity point of view
Your quick’n’dirty temporary tools are turning to be in use longer. Now what? (New tools and how to use them)
When?
October 14th, 2020 from 11am to 3pm EST.
Online course model and the planned schedule makes it possible to join us around the globe.
Who Should Attend?
The course is aimed at public and private sector decision makers in charge of adapting to the "new normal.” Participation of leaders in the following positions is highly recommended: IT/OT security, strategy officers, risk and compliance managers.
Pricing
The proceeds of each sale will directly support the non-profit, Finnish American Chamber of Commerce New York. Lecturers are unpaid volunteers.
Early Bird $295 (available until October 2nd)
Normal $395
Contact us for group and organization wide options or invoicing
Please note,
Early bird tickets are avaible only until October 2nd
