AKJ E-Crime & Cybersecurity 2024 - Switzerland | AKJ Associates Ltd | 17 September 2024 | Courtyard Zurich North, Max-Bill-Platz 19, 8050 Zürich, Switzerland

A threat to both the public and private sectors
It has been another busy year for cybersecurity professionals in Switzerland as global trends in threats and attacks have played out locally.

So, most obviously, the critical danger posed by third parties has been highlighted by two of the most prominent recent breaches:

A US security company, providing communication technology to defence firms globally, fell victim to a cyberattack. The Swiss Air Force was among the entities affected. Switzerland’s Federal Department of Defence has officially confirmed the data breach and is currently investigating the incident.

Hackers are believed to have stolen tens of thousands of documents from the US company “Ultra Intelligence & Communications”. Around 30 gigabytes of partly sensitive and classified documents are believed to have ended up on the darknet.

And investigations into a 2023 attack have finally revealed that sensitive Swiss federal government data, including classified documents and log in credentials, were leaked by the Play ransomware group following an attack on IT service provider Xplain in 2023.

Three reports by the FDPIC said that neither the Federal Office of Police (Fedpol) nor the Federal Office of Customs and Border Security (FOCBS) had clearly agreed with Xplain the conditions under which personal data could be stored on the latter’s servers as part of support services.

In addition, Xplain had not taken any appropriate measures to ensure data security or information protection, the reports said.

As well as breaches, there have been developments in regulations and legislation. The Federal Information Security Act (ISA), which only entered into force on, is already being amended with an obligation to report cyberattacks for operators of pre-defined ‘critical infrastructures’.

Come to the e-Crime & Cybersecurity Congress Switzerland to find out:
• How your fellow cybersecurity professionals are coping with these challenges day-to-day
• How you can use resilience regulations to build truly risk-based approaches to defend the assets and processes that really matter
• What practical steps you can take to get better supplier visibility and understanding
• How to economically enhance the security built into Cloud infrastructure and applications with selected additional technologies

2024 Speakers

Sandro Waelchli
CISO, Bank Avera

Hélène Mourgue d’Algue
CIO and Head of Information Systems & Digital Technology, City of Bienne

Richard Kearney
CISO, Octapharma

Guillaume de Benoit
Head of Information Security Operations, Caisse des Médecins

Philipp Grabher
CISO, Canton Zurich

Klaus Hallar
Senior IT Security Architect, AXA

Juan Carlos Lopez Ruggiero
CISO, Enotrac

Manit Sahib
Ethical Hacker, The Global Fund

Christophe Monigadon
CISO, Visana Services AG

Dr. Michel Verde
Attorney at Law, Lustenberger + Partners

Holger Moenius
NeuVector Sales Executive DACH, Benelux, Nordics & South, SUSE

Dominic Haussmann
Specialist Solutions Engineer - Zero Trust, Cloudflare

Frank Barthel
Manager Solutions Engineering DACH, Netskope

Alfonso Hermosillo
Senior Solutions Engineer, SpyCloud

Dr. Shahriar Daneshjoo
VP Sales - EMEA Central, Silverfort

Thomas Bräuer
Senior Sales Engineer, Proofpoint

Christopher Schrauf
Lead Security SIEM & SOAR Architect, CyberProof

Joël Giger
Intelligence Consultant, Recorded Future

Gary Adams
Solutions Consulting Manager, Rubrik

2024 Sponsors

STRATEGIC SPONSORS:
• Akamai
• Cloudflare
• Proofpoint
• Rubrik
• Silverfort
• SocRadar
• ThreatLocker
• Utopia

EDUCATION SEMINAR SPONSOR:
• Crowdstrike
• CyberProof
• Netskope
• Recorded Future
• SpyCloud
• Suse