December Online Meeting

Dear Chapter Members

we have reached the end of this complex year in which we have changed our habits and switched all our standard meetings online.  It’s now time to meet together at our last online event for the year 2020. We will be happy to see you on Thursday 10th of December, 17.30-19:30 through WebEx.

Agenda 

17:30 – 18:15: Sarka Pekarova “Why letting me break into your organisation will help you protect it”

Summary: Why do we always say that humans are the weakest link and why we should start saying the opposite? During these difficult times, it is more than ever evident how humans are important to protect our networks. Understanding the human side of cyber security, gives an invaluable insight into understanding not only threat actors but our own colleagues and employees and how to build better strategies with human assets in mind to combat anything from insider threats to external malicious actors.

I will walk you through some approaches to my physical engagements (how I break into places where I should not be and exfiltrate valuable information and assets), as well as goes into an engagement that is not always so glorious or movie-like and how this knowledge can help you protect yourself, your loved ones as well as how useful it is for your organisation.

Bio: Experience for over 10 years career in IT, working in various roles from defensive to offensive side of the cyber security spectrum. Sarka loves to share her knowledge and passion for social engineering, physical intrusions and deception at various events and trainings for customers and events. She enjoys versatility that shows in areas she’s involved from medical devices ,industrial control systems (ICS) and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems to social engineering, always with a focus on humans.

She has been speaking and providing workshops at events and for clients like United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) , Transport for London (UK), Layer8 (US), Infosec In the City (Singapore), SheHacks KE (Kenya), BSides Athens (Greece) and BSides Cairo (Egypt).

Her focus is on building information security communities, she has been in past board member of OWASP Manchester and currently co-creator of DC11331, Parisian DEFCON group as well as ambassador for BSides Athens and co-organizer for BSides Cairo as well as part of the team behind DEFCON biohacking Village CTF.

18:15-19:15: Beat Küng – Verizon’s 2020 Data Breach Investigations Report and Verizon’s Cyber Espionage Report

Summary: Most companies are aware of the general ever changing cyber risk landscape but struggle to identify which risks are affecting them the most. The 2020 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) looks back to last year’s main threats and tactics used to compromise and steal data. The report breaks down threats specific to industries and provides guidance on how to protect against those threats. Cyber espionage is one of those threats. The Verizon Cyber Espionage Report provides specific insight into the who, when and what of secrets stealing in cyberspace.

Bio: Beat is a security solutions architect at Verizon with 30 years of IT experience and 12+ years in security. He has worked as SW developer, support specialist, network architect and security solution architect. Over the last years he has provided consultancy on the broad Verizon security portfolio ranging from managed security services, identity services as well as security risk and identification services. He is CISSP and CEH certified.

19:15-19:30: Open Beer with the board

A few minutes to have a “virtual beer” together with the board and turn on the cameras to say goodbye to 2020 and hello to 2021!

Please do not forget to register for the event here so that we keep track of the participants and submit the corresponding 2 CPEs to (ISC)2 afterwards.

We will share the WebEx link with those registered, before the event through email.

Looking forward to seeing you on the 10th of December

Best regards

The (ISC)2 Chapter Switzerland Board