Agenda
9:20 am - 9:30 am
Chair’s Opening Remarks
9:30 am - 9:55 am
A Universal Regulatory Approach to Cyber Security
- Supporting organisations through legislation and regulatory clarity – Guidance with NIS Directive and GDPR.
- No business left behind: Breaking down the complexity of cyber through an evolving rationale of general and bespoke guidance.
- Working with international organisations and allies to secure Britain’s economy and its place as global cyber power.
9:55 am - 10:15 am
Strategic Headline Sponsor
10:15 am - 10:40 am
Spotlight on Leadership: Championing the Place of Cyber in Strategic Decision Making
- Moving beyond mitigation by building a whole-team approach to business impact assessment.
- From Customers to the C-Suite – How HSBC has sought to embed and champion a security culture.
- Upholding the role of Cyber in HSBC’s engagement with disruptive transformation and emerging technologies and practices.
10:40 am - 11:25 am
Morning Refreshment and Exhibition Break
11:25 am - 12:10 pm
Panel Discussion: Building the Next Generation of Cyber Practitioners: Talent & Diversity
- Defining the talent shortage and working with government and education to identify the skills gaps of the future.
- Moving beyond recognising the diversity shortcomings within the Cyber profession and developing strategies to redress historic under representation.
- Balancing the need to provide advanced and intermediate upskilling opportunities.
- Working with government and education providers build career pathways for young Cyber professionals.
2:00 pm - 2:45 pm
Seminars
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Lunch and Exhibition
12:15 pm - 1:00 pm
Seminars
2:50 pm - 3:10 pm
Stream Keynote
Stream 1 : The Threat
The Rise of the OCGs and the Evolving Crime Toolkit
- The OCG landscape and the exploitation of AI and data analytics to target organisational vulnerabilities
- Defending against outsider trading spreads out from traditional finance markets to other sectors.
- Meeting adversarial capabilities with the latest armoury of digital forensics, intelligence and data sharing tools as well as dedicated regional specialists in Cyber Crime
Stream 2: The Tech
Fighting Bots with Bots: Post-Hype Applications of AI and ML
- Exposing the cavities created by the non-linear growth in essential organisational data through AI and ML.
- Mastering the threat vectors and nature as an essential caveat to employing advanced technologies.
- Viewing technology trends with a human eye and building a deployment strategy based on the expertise and team makeup.
Stream 3: The Training
A Collaborative Approach to Building A Security Culture
- Developing the essential skills of recognition whilst building a tested escalation policy
- Making it easier for staff to engage in cyber-safe practices by providing easily absorbable information and simple to use security tools
- Training upwards as well as downwards to ensure that executives are engaging as much as any member of the organisations
3:10 pm - 3:30 pm
Stream Sponsor
3:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Afternoon Refreshments and Exhibition
4:00 pm - 4:20 pm
Case Studies
Stream 1 : The Threat
Phishing Season: Developing the Right Approach to Socially Engineered Cyber Attacks
- Building Internal Awareness through insight into the HMRC tax rebate phishing phenomenon
- Reducing spoof smashing scams by up to 90% through tag and terminate technology
- Keeping ahead of the enemy by identifying vulnerable target groups such as students or the elderly.
Stream 2: The Tech
Access, Authorisation and Monitoring
- Learning not to underestimate the role of human error and malice and finding suitable monitoring practices and technologies to mitigate their impact
- Shifting access control from device-focused protection to data-focused security
- Reckoning with the identity question in an organisation’s digital transformation strategy
Stream 3: The Training
Recruitment and Retention in an Insecure Security Employment Market
- Working with comms and HR to attract the right talent and bake security into the image of your company.
- Obtaining the right balance between upskilling and work-life balance to incentivise and retain your security team.
- The idiosyncrasies of growing a security team at pace and the place of cyber in the story of TransferWise’s success.
4:20 pm - 5:00 pm
Panel Discussions
Stream 1 : The Threat
Hyperconnected, Hype-vulnerable: Anticipating the Threats Posed by Emerging Technology and Future Digital Practices
- Spelling out the threat vectors to determine the greatest area of vulnerability in hyper connected networks.
- Balancing risk and cost when baking security into product development – What is the right formula?
- Championing relationships with suppliers, partners and third parties as the strongest safeguard
Stream 2: The Tech
To What Extent Can We Secure the Supply Chain
- Shifting mindsets to view business and security as win-win when evaluating supplier contracts.
- Employing and developing standards and models through which to establish secure and resilient supply chains.
- Developing a supplier based play-book to safeguard business continuity and the user when the chain is compromised.
Stream 3: The Training
TEST, TEST, TEST: Building Best Practice for Testing within your Team
- Putting yourself in the attacker’s mindset to build a better awareness of your assets/vulnerabilities and routes to exploit them.
- Working with certified ethical hackers 101 and knowing what you want to learn before you begin.
- The evolution of penetration testing the emerging threats discovered by the practice of testing.
