Six more exciting speakers in our conference line-up
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.
With Program Chair Christian Folini looking for more exciting security experts, the conference schedule is filling up quickly. Over the past month, we have announced our keynote speaker, Mark Barwinski, as well as Camino Kavanagh, Michael Hausding, and Carlos Ishimaru. Now is the time to officially add a few more names to the line-up:
- Marina Bochenkova is a cybersecurity analyst specializing in digital forensics, incident response, and the security of industrial control systems and other critical infrastructure. Control systems and the various connected sensors play a major role in smart cities. Marina’s talk will be about the specific resilience problems that come from the exposure of these urban areas to cybersecurity risks.
- Roman Hüssy is Co-Director of the Government Computer Emergency Response Team (GovCERT), the Swiss national technical cyberincident response center. Roman has many years of experience in cyberthreat intelligence, having founded Abuse.ch in 2007. In this rare public appearance, he will show typical incidents handled by GovCERT, and how they gain knowledge and share that with Swiss critical infrastructure operators and the wider audience.
- Aram Hovsepyan contributed to the science of metrics for his PhD at DistriNet KU Leuven. During his fifteen years of experience in cybersecurity, he came across a lot of bad dashboards. This talk will teach us how to improve them with the Goal-Question-Metric framework that helps to pick the numbers that actually contribute to our goals.
- Olle E. Johansson has over twenty years of experience in telecommunications, VoIP, and cybersecurity. Olle is active in open-source projects and standard forums, the founder of major appsec and network security initiatives, and a specialist for various categories of software bills of materials (SBOM). These days, SBOMs are everywhere, but not every SBOM use is equally successful. Olle will tell us how to improve their application, how to work with them day in and day out and how to develop your own SBOM lifestyle for your organization.
- Panos Vlachos is an information security expert with a background in software engineering. Currently a PhD candidate, he volunteers for the CyberPeace Builders (CPB) programm for the Geneva-based CyberPeace Institute. CPB matches NGOs with security needs with practicioners. The support can include advisories or hands on missions like the work Panos is doing: dark web monitoring, vulnerability scanning, etc. Panos will present the CPB program and show us how to join.
- Verena Zimmermann is Assistant Professor for Security, Privacy and Society at ETH Zürich. Her research interests comprise the human aspects of safety, IT security and privacy, like usable authentication, privacy-friendly smart home concepts and the human-centered design of tasks in smart cars. Her presentation will explain certain design principles and how to make practical use of her research.
We will complete the program in the coming weeks.
