Corporate Forensics Presentation at ISSE 2017

For organisations, wether big or small, the priority when an Information Security incident happens is to resume operations as quickly as possible and minimise disruption. What is very often overlooked is the management of digital evidence generated by an incident, whatever its nature. The sessions endeavoured to explain how to… Continue reading

e-Privacy XXI – Lucca 2017

e-Privacy is a biannual conference organised in Italy on the themes of privacy, security and surveillance. On June 23 2017 I prented at e-Privacy XXI a talk that is part of an ongoing research on cyber sovereignty and the role of nation states in Internet governance and cyber conflict. In his “Declaration… Continue reading

CEN-CENELEC Workshop on Safety & Security

The CEN-CENELEC workshop on Functional Safety & Cybersecurity last March 16 brought together industry actors and European standardization development organizations. The engagement generated was successful and will be an integral part of the future standardization roadmap for cybersecurity. I was invited to give a keynote speech on the perspective of… Continue reading

System Safety and Cyber Security IET Conference

I was invited among the speakers at the 11th International Conference on System Safety and Cyber Security  (SSCS) that was held in London, at Savoy Place last 12-13 October. SSCS, organised by The Institution of Engineering and Technology, is the largest conference for system safety specialists held in the UK. It was… Continue reading

Connected Cars: a Very Bad Idea

This post sums up the content of a talk I presentedshuld have presented at DFA Open Day 2016 on critical aspects of permanently connected cars for safety, security, privacy and data protection. The megatrend towards cloud computing seems unstoppable, without regards for safety and security risks. This is of course the negation… Continue reading

CyCon 2016 Opens Tomorrow in Tallinn

[This is a CCDCOE Press Release] The 8th International Conference on Cyber Conflict opens tomorrow in Tallinn, Estonia and continues through June 3. Focused on the theme of Cyber Power, CyCon 2016 asks how the traditional concept of power applies to cyberspace. Accredited media is invited to a media briefing at… Continue reading

Cyber Conference 2016 at Chatham House

Chatham House (the Royal Institute of International Affairs) hosted its annual Cyber Conference this week in London. It must be said that the main threads of the discussion were not new in the field of cyber policy in general, and cyber security in particular. The raise of digital sovereignty was… Continue reading

Information Security: Lessons from Intelligence Agencies

Information management and security: lessons from intelligence Information in digital form is arguably the most important asset for modern organizations. Still, even today, the word “security” is often associated with guards in uniform, door locks and access control. While physical security is still fundamental, even to protect information, information security… Continue reading

Networks and States

Networks and States The Global Politics of Internet Governance Milton L. Mueller The MIT Press, 2010 Internet Governance was a hot subject in 2010 when this book was published and it is still so today, in our post-Snowden era. While it is true that this field is evolving rapidly, this… Continue reading