Smart cities, undersea cables, risks to the DNS, ransomware, GovCERT, software bills of materials, independent cyber threat intelligence, metrics, and the CyberPeace Institute are just a few of the topics our speakers will address at Swiss Cyber Storm 2025. Some of these topics are part of our focus topic – Resilience in a Mad, Mad World – while others focus on additional relevant security topics.

We are pleased to announce the following speakers for Swiss Cyber Storm 2025:

With its focus on AI, last year’s Swiss Cyber Storm clearly struck a chord. And in 2024, neither the development nor our commitment to the topic has stopped. This year, we want to go deeper and involve you, our audience, more in this discourse: Enter the Swiss Cyber Storm AI Village.

Smart cities, undersea cables, risks to the DNS, ransomware, GovCERT, software bills of materials, independent cyber threat intelligence, metrics, and the CyberPeace Institute are just a few of the topics our speakers will address at Swiss Cyber Storm 2025. Some of these topics are part of our focus topic – Resilience in a Mad, Mad World – while others focus on additional relevant security topics.

We are pleased to announce the following speakers for Swiss Cyber Storm 2025:

With its focus on AI, last year’s Swiss Cyber Storm clearly struck a chord. And in 2024, neither the development nor our commitment to the topic has stopped. This year, we want to go deeper and involve you, our audience, more in this discourse: Enter the Swiss Cyber Storm AI Village.

Smart cities, undersea cables, risks to the DNS, ransomware, GovCERT, software bills of materials, independent cyber threat intelligence, metrics, and the CyberPeace Institute are just a few of the topics our speakers will address at Swiss Cyber Storm 2025. Some of these topics are part of our focus topic – Resilience in a Mad, Mad World – while others focus on additional relevant security topics.

We are pleased to announce the following speakers for Swiss Cyber Storm 2025:

With its focus on AI, last year’s Swiss Cyber Storm clearly struck a chord. And in 2024, neither the development nor our commitment to the topic has stopped. This year, we want to go deeper and involve you, our audience, more in this discourse: Enter the Swiss Cyber Storm AI Village.

The following is a post by Mark Barwinski, the opening keynote speaker for Swiss Cyber Storm 2025. Mark has over 20 years of cybersecurity leadership experience spanning financial services, professional consulting, manufacturing, and government intelligence. In this blog post, he shares first-hand experiences of OPSEC failures from his time at the NSA, and offers strong advice for realistic OPSEC practices in 2025. By publishing this article for the first time, Swiss Cyber Storm hopes to provide a basis for further discussion.

A message to all cybersecurity talents in Switzerland: On March 1, the qualifiers for the Swiss Hacking Challenge (SHC) 2025 have started.

Since the US election, the whole world seems to be descending into chaos.

We’re a bit late with the conference feedback for Swiss Cyber Storm 2024, but I don’t want to launch 2025 without a proper and transparent review.

We’ve made it – just before the summer break, the program for this year’s Swiss Cyber Storm Conference on 22 October on the topic of “The AI Revolution” and other hot security topics is online. In addition to the already announced opening keynote by AI thought leader Daniel Miessler, we would therefore like to introduce you to some more speakers. Five of them, here they are.

Artificial intelligence as a topic may seem hardly original and the number one buzzword everywhere. But it would be negligent not to make the tension between AI and cybersecurity the focus of this year’s Swiss Cyber Storm. Our motto “The AI Revolution” reflects the reality that AI is shaping the security world anew – let’s take the bull by the horns and go straight at it!

Great news for all young Swiss cybersecurity specialists: Qualifications for the Swiss national hacking team start this Friday, March 1, and will run through April 30 with the finals on July 13/14.

We had a very successful 10th edition of Swiss Cyber Storm. Shortly after the conference ended, we sent out the feedback forms and received 43 responses, which is 10-15 % return rate, which is in line with previous years. We send more or less the same questions every year, so we get consistent responses and we can identify trends and compare the individual editions. We also included two questions on the catering for the first time.

The Swiss national team has finished second at the European Hacking Championships in Norway with 28 participants. It is the highest placing for a Swiss national team so far. The young cybersecurity specialists scored points thanks to a consistent performance and their strong strategic skills, remaining composed under pressure.

Prepare for an amazing keynote at our anniversary Swiss Cyber Storm conference on October 24! We are very happy to announce that Eva Galperin, a renowned advocate for privacy rights and a leading voice in the battle against big tech, will be starting our conference. As Director of Cybersecurity at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Eva brings years of experience defending our privacy and an intriguing focus on fighting stalkerware. Her talk offers a fresh perspective on the security industry and what’s at stake these days.

The conference program for Swiss Cyber Storm 2023 is now online – albeit with some spaces to fill in. The schedule will be completed in the next few weeks. Stay tuned for the announcement of more amazing talks on hot cybersecurity topics by selected international experts.

This year, Swiss Cyber Storm celebrate its anniversary: On October 24 in the Kursaal Bern, the tenth edition of the Swiss Cyber Storm conference will take place since the founding of the independent supporting association. The first conference of this name was held in Rapperswil back in 2010, but at that time still under the umbrella of Compass Security.

Swiss Cyber Storm has been around for more than a decade. And if we look at the positive feedback we are getting from our audience and from our sponsors, we are doing something right.

We have been sending out the same feedback survey for several years now. This allows to get some consistency in reporting and allows for an internal discussion on a sound base. This is vital, since people tend to tell us they loved the conference, but then they vote with their feet and we do not see them at future editions anymore.

The numbers of viewers on our nutshell format continue to amaze us. When we did our first Swiss Cyber Storm in a Nutshell double-interview in October 2020, the success was immediately visible. It felt like we had hit a niche here and the extended interviews on cyber security topics with a decidedly Swiss perspective addressed an obvious interest.

We’re happy to announce, that all of our SwissCyberStorm 2021 talks are now online on our YouTube channel.

After every Swiss Cyber Storm, we are sending the exactly same feedback form to all our paying attendees. We pay attention to send the same question, so we can compare the scores across different years. In this blog post, we’re sharing the feedback for the first time with you.

Switzerland has become a hotspot for security startups. Our program chair Christian Folini discusses this with his guests cryptographer Jean-Philippe Aumasson (@veorq), co-founder and Chief Security Officer of Taurus, and Jonas Wagner (@_jwagner), co-founder and Chief Technical Officer of Threatray.

A few weeks ago, we ran our third SCS in a nutshell online interview with Lt. Gen. Thomas Süssli, Chief of the Swiss Armed Forces, and Dr. Myriam Dunn Cavelty from the ETH Center for Strategic Studies.

Two weeks ago we ran our second SCS in a nutshell online interview, that we also published as a podcast under this name. This blog posts brings you a few strong take-aways and further down below the complete transcript of the interview.

Your host Christian Folini has invited Tobias Ospelt, founder of Swiss penetration testing company Pentagrid, and the successful freelance bug bounty hunter Raphäel Arrouas, also known as Xel among his peers.

We ran last year’s Swiss Cyber Storm under the motto “Embracing the Hackers”. One of the topics we covered was Bug Bounty Programs. A BBP is often seen as a standard element of a comprehensive application security program. But they are also mostly unheard of in Switzerland.

Back in June, we cancelled the on-site Swiss Cyber Storm 2020 conference. We also ruled out a day-long virtual happening, but we said we were looking into a brief online presentation or some fun online form.

Believe it or not, but back in December, we decided to make E-Health our focus theme for Swiss Cyber Storm 2020. So when the Covid-19 crisis slowly approached, we padded our shoulders and thought that our gut feeling had been right on target again.

This is a contributed guest post by Florian Badertscher from Swisscom’s bug bounty program. We are publishing it here on the Cyber Storm blog because it brings information valuable to companies planning a bug bounty program of their own.

Swiss Cyber Storm 2019 will run under the motto “Embracing the Hackers”. We have presented and explained this overall theme for our conference in a separate blog post in Spring. Now it is time to present you our lineup for our conference on October 15. This is the 2nd of two blog posts about our speakers. The first one is here.

Swiss Cyber Storm 2019 will run under the motto “Embracing the Hackers”. We have presented and explained this overall theme for our conference in a separate blog post in Spring. Now it is time to present you our lineup for our conference on October 15. This is the first of two blog posts about our speakers.

Engaging in Penetration Testers to gauge the security of existing online services has become a standard practice in our industry in Switzerland. Established services and new offerings are tested alike in order to uncover hidden bugs or to raise awareness of security problems that often go unnoticed with management or developers.