Nordic IT Security | The Best Cybersecurity event in Nordics

In just one day, you’ll learn what you need to stay ahead of tomorrow’s cybercrime.

THE BEST Nordic Cybersecurity Event will provide You with
Top Notch Speakers Interactive Sessions Structured Networking Comprehensive Agenda

Stockholm Waterfront Congress Center
May 23, 2024

What is
Nordic IT Security?

The most reputable cyber security summit in Scandinavia, Nordic IT Security, has been around for 17 years acting as a steering wheel for navigation through the Nordic’s “cybersecurity watch-out” scheme.

With its notable speakers and partners the summit provides a platform for seasoned industry professionals to come together and discuss business critical topics. Covering the latest cutting-edge technology the event is designed to secure all the aspects of the 21st century’s global communities challenges.

Our research has shown that a great majority of businesses and companies across all industries are likely experiencing the same or similar pain points, so let’s all come together this May in Stockholm and discuss the root causes of these pain points and find the Best solutions.

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Keynotes, May 23, 2024

David Jacoby

Ethical Hacker

David Jacoby is one of Sweden's most boldest hackers and IT security experts. He has over 25 years of experience in professional hacking and has won several awards both as a speaker and for his unique research and dedicated work to stop digital crime. In addition to his own research, he was one of the main hackers in HACKAD_ a Swedish TV show named "HACKAD_" where David and three colleagues have hacked Swedish companies live on the TV screen to show the complexity and necessity in issues such as IT security.

Mikko Hypponen

IT Security Guru

Mikko Hypponen is one of the most recognized cyber security experts world-wide and a best-selling author. He has written for the New York Times, Wired and Scientific American and lectured at the universities of Oxford, Stanford and Cambridge. Mikko works as the Chief Research Officer for WithSecure and sits on the advisory boards of EUROPOL and Verge Motorcycles.

Arnaud Wiehe

FedEx

Arnaud Wiehe is an author, speaker, consultant, and thought leader in cybersecurity. He has worked in leadership and cybersecurity roles for major global companies, including as a CISO for multiple years. Throughout his career, Arnaud has demonstrated a strong focus on cybersecurity best practices and keeping current with emerging trends, technologies ,and innovation. He is a graduate of the Singularity University and a member of the Association of Professional Futurists. He is widely respected by his peers as an expert in cybersecurity and IT governance. Arnaud is also an enthusiastic amateur musician and luthier. He plays the violin, viola, cello, and mandolin. He has made two violins, a viola, and numerous bows.

Patric J.M. Versteeg

Patric is a visionary executive passionate about revolutionizing information and cybersecurity management. As a dynamic leader, he challenges traditional thinking, driving innovation. Committed to continuous learning, he's at the forefront of the field with a global network of peers. With two decades of experience and numerous certifications, he excels in delivering strategic planning and tailored solutions for secure businesses.

Sunette Runhaar

Sunette Runhaar is the Head of the Global Insider Threat Program at Uber, helping to build the company’s first dedicated Insider Threat program. She has over nine years’ experience in risk consulting, investigations, and information security. Before joining Uber, Sunette built and managed the InfoSec Education and Awareness Program at Tesla. She also spent five years working at a UK-headquartered risk consultancy, advising clients on anything from reputational risk, to asset tracing, piracy, and chemical warfare. Sunette holds an MSc in Biochemistry from the University of Stellenbosch.

Nir Chervoni

Booking.com

20+ years of experience in the IT field, ~20 years in Information Security - 13 years in security leadership positions. I've worked with various types of organizations, including Startups, SMBs, large enterprises, and government organizations - mainly regarding Information Security, Risk Management, and Security Strategy. In addition, I have knowledge and experience in various professional domains in the field of information security, including data security, generative AI security, Cloud security, infrastructure security, application / API security, identity and access management, and data privacy.

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Corey Blatchford

"Ready to dive deep into the world of cybersecurity and connect with industry experts, big thanks to Nordic IT Security for organising, and for providing a platform that fosters knowledge sharing and collaboration."

Dana Toren

Director, Head of National Incident Management Center
Israel National Cyber Directorate

"This is the second time I am participating in the annual conference of the Nordic IT Security and it is a great honor for me. This time I spoke about risk management in the cyber era, and participated in a panel about phishing attacks. Two topics that can be talked about for days. I would like to thank to the champ organizers. It was a professional conference with professionals speakers, and it is amazing to see how you thought of everything and managed to combine work and pleasure."

Julian Totzek-Hallhuber

"Great to see many people interested in how Veracode helps to secure your SDLC. Thanks for having us Nordic IT Security, it’s a great show!"

Isabella Södergren
DELEGATE

Organizer

"Thank you Nordic IT Security and Saif Ahmed Bhuiyan and team for an amazing hackaton yesterday. We participated with our Newbie team from Women in Security - Stockholm/Sweden. The hackaton team was great , made sure everybody had a good time and we did learn many new things."

Daniel Blackwell

"Wrapping up a brilliant day here in Stockholm at the Nordic IT Security event. What was super interesting was the amount of different use case conversations we had..."

Zero Trust in the Cloud

Zero trust is more than the latest tech marketing buzzword; it’s a practical approach to securing container environments. This model emerged as the application/service perimeter began to disappear as we evolved from physical devices to VMs, microservices and finally, distributed workloads in the cloud and at the edge. This evolution has forced improvements in the security model – from a reactive model that uses deny lists and firewalls to protect the known perimeter to proactive, zero trust models. With zero trust, we’re minimising the attack surface by using an “allow” list that blocks unapproved network connections and processes, so that teams can stop attacks before they start and stop zero-day threats by their suspicious behaviour activities.

Awareness done right

Even the best firewalls, filters, backups, and VPNs can't prevent a cyber attack. In addition to well-developed technology and infrastructure, the awareness of all employees is very important. We claim that we need more than just awareness but a cybersecurity culture in order to really change behaviour of all stakeholders. First of all, cybersecurity culture needs an assessment of organisational, technical and human competences. In order to form a cybersecurity culture, various awareness campaigns go hand in hand with capacity and competence building, i.e. cybersecurity training as well as anchoring it in all management and business processes. We will present how this journey can and should be planned, which steps to take first and best practices in establishing a cybersecurity culture.

Swantje Westpfahl

Director," Institute for Security and Safety GmbH at the UAS Mannheim"

"Coming back from the Nordic IT Security #conference in beautiful and sunny Stockholm 🇸🇪 where I was invited as a keynote speaker. It was the first time I experimented with 🎶 singing 🎶 on stage for a talk (no one threw tomatoes at me so I guess it went okay 😄)"

Cybersecurity and its Societal Aspects

Cybersecurity makes headlines more frequently in the past years. How are our daily lives affected by cybersecurity incidents? Which are the industries which need to be concerned the most and which are their challenges?
• Does the evolving threat landscape affect the infrastructure architecture?
• Which are the key industries that need to be in the spotlight?
• What is the perception of society when it comes to cybersecurity?

"Sekoia.io, a leading cybersecurity vendor, is thrilled to showcase its cutting-edge XDR platform in Sweden at Nordic IT Security , the best cybersecurity event in Nordics! With our unique approach that prioritizes interoperability, we integrate all our customers' cyber solutions into our XDR platform, a single control tower."

Elnaz Tadayon

Cybersecurity evangelist

"What an incredible day it was! Yesterday, I was fortunate enough to be a part of the prestigious 16th Nordic IT Security Summit as an expert speaker in a captivating panel discussion centered around cloud security and generative AI."

Emma Nilsson
DELEGATE

System developer with interest in cyber security and AI

"I had an amazing opportunity yesterday when I attended the Nordic IT Security conference. I took away a lot from the conference and feel grateful to Precise Biometrics that they're empowering me as a young professional to learn and grow by having given me the opportunity to attend."

Cyber Threats: Breaking the Attack Chain

Cyber Threats show no signs of abating. Digital transformation, expanding cloud deployments, and increased remote work are all bolstering the Attack Chain, creating new planes of privileges for attackers to exploit In this session you will learn how you can break the attack chain and establish a solid foundation for security project success, including:
• Common attack chain entry points
• Practical steps you can take to block entry
• How PAM ensures project success

Raed Figueroa
DELEGATE

Senior IT Analyst

"Congratulations to Nordic IT Security for its successful 16th Annual Conference today in Stockholm, Sweden. It is an honor to be invited, considering I am new to the world of IT Security. I learned so much and met so many IT Security professionals, both C-levels and Experts. Thank you! 🫰🏼"

Hungry for More: Serving up cloud-native services with none of the cloud security pangs

How does Europe's prominent food delivery platform maintain cloud efficiency and Security as it grows its network of customers, merchants, and couriers? Learn in this session Key Takeaways:
• How to assess and report on your maturity joUnderstand the impact of growth on your cloud security program
• How to crawl, walk, and run in a modern cloud security program

Elin Ryrfeldt

CISO, Axfood

"Today I was invited to share my thoughts on third party risks and cyber security at the Nordic IT Security. Great discussions with my fellow panelists Aicha Kermoury Bish, CISM, MSc, Eva Throne-Holst and Sélim HOUFANI, nicely moderated by Brían O'Brolchain. One of our conclusions was that we need to establish trust throughout the supply chain and that requires both assurance, trust and partnership."

The cloud is here - and the modern CISO’s need to adapt

Migrate to the cloud securely
• Adapt your mental models for cloud security
• Implement security practices into DevOps
• Become an enabler and innovator with cloud security techniques

"We had an absolutely fantastic time at Nordic IT Security in #Stockholm yesterday! 🎉 It was a pleasure connecting with industry professionals and sharing all things about #securecoding."

Erik van Woerkens

Executive advisor cybersecurity
XLEN

"Thank you for having me Nordic IT Security, I enjoyed it to be a member of the specialists discussion panel about IoB (Internet of Behavior)"

Sofie Sundåker
DELEGATE

CISO

"First time attendee at the Nordic IT Security conference that was held last Thursday. They had gathered great speakers and the talk about security culture and awareness was everywhere. Learnt a lot and we are on the right track. I hope this event brings more fun and better relationships between sec and "the rest of the business" across organisations and that those with the money also got more inspired to invest more in security."

Rohan Karat

"Great first trip to Sweden! ❤️🇸🇪...(Check out my rather cool Bruce Lee tie 🥋😜) Brían O'Brolchain, Michelle Bentley and I had a productive time at the Nordics IT event at the Stockholm Waterfront Congress Centre in Stockholm yesterday. 🥳😎 Fantastic conversations, lovely people and overall top networking!"

Paul Newton
DELEGATE

Owner

"Nordic IT have nailed it yet again! 3 separate rooms with amazing speakers throughout the day! Great conversations in the exhibition areas and some very intense meetings in the break out areas - and I haven’t even mentioned the live hacking competition going on right now!"

Securing Cloud Native Applications at Scale

Modern cloud native technologies enable you to build, deploy, and scale rapidly. But this increased complexity exposes your application to new risks and vulnerabilities. Each layer of your cloud native application – spanning your code, third party dependencies, containers, and clusters – exposes you to new security concerns. Learn how you can protect your application through clear remediation actions and best practices, and how Developers are key in the transition to DevSecOps.

Elpidoforos Arapantonis

Senior IT Security Officer
Volvo Autonomous Solutions

"Another successful Nordic IT Security came to an end. It was a day full of very interesting presentations, live hacking and hackathon events! Our contribution was a fruitful panel discussion on Cybersecurity and its Societal Aspects. "

Working at the Speed of Security

• Identify key attributes needed for detection and response in today's world
• Learn how a team transformed their security monitoring approach in months (versus years)
• Implement an extensible, adaptable approach that scales and changes quickl

Bas van Erik

"Back in Amsterdam after a great day at Nordic IT Security. Thank you for the opportunity to introduce SoSafe and to speak about the latest trends in cybercrime."

Jari Rasinen
DELEGATE

Product Security Manager

"I had this week visit at Nordic IT Security. It was delightful to see that security awareness, culture and skills seemed to be one of the topics on top. Not to forget all the discussions with vendors and PEOPLE outside the keynote rooms! At least I feel much richer being able to talk with the security peers. In some sense, security conferences are like AA meetings when people drop their titles, and openly discuss about the things that matter the most to use at the moment. As a bonus, I also learned about UN 155 which is about cyber security requirements for automotive."

M. Shahmee Amir

CEO/CTO
Younite

"The Nordic IT Security Conference A Memorable event which brought together amazing people and those people turned into friends. Thank you to the entire organizing team for making me a part of it especially Saif Ahmed Bhuiyan Lidija S. Cvetkovic and Goran G. Kandic. It was an honor to be speaking at a Conference known to host Mikko Hypponen Jane Frankland."

Eva-Kristin Wildeke
DELEGATE

CI(S)O

"So honored to have gotten the opportunity to attend a workshop with Brett Johnson today att Nordic IT Security conference. Discussing the importance of multi-layered defence as well as 3rd party vetting and awareness."

James Brown

"Another successful Nordic IT Security conference in Stockholm for the Snyk Nordics team! 🇸🇪 Thank you again for having us, great conversations and great venue, and good things to come! 💪"

Yuliia Bahlai
DELEGATE

Cyber Security Analyst

"It was so nice to be a part of #nordicitsecurity this year! Big thanks to everyone who was there today!🙂"

Dado Dizdar

"Thank you for having us Nordic IT Security Great to speak about the importance of #SecurityAwareness #Humanfirewall #KnowBe4 #ITSecurity Thank you for the professional organization Goran G. Kandic"

Leveraging CIEM to Secure Cloud Identities and Entitlements at Scale

• With the massive migration to cloud infrastructure and many new cloud-native companies, management of human and service identities and entitlements has become an extremely significant factor in the security posture of cloud infrastructure.
• The dynamic nature of cloud development and operations leads to inadequate management of the identities and access privileges that hold the key to applications and data. On the other hand, they give security professionals a level of control that was previously unimaginable.
• During this session we will explore the opportunities and risks, and review the recently published IDSA CIEM (Cloud Infrastructure Entitlements Management) best practices for managing identities in your cloud environment to limit the attack surface and help reduce blast radius in case of a breach.

Navaz Sumar

Chief Information Security Officer
TF Bank AB

"Had a fantastic time at the Nordic IT Security event today, where we discussed the topic of developing cyber security management by learning from others. Huge thanks to all the fantastic speakers who were willing to share their insights and experiences. The presentation was outstanding, providing valuable insights into leveraging past experiences to prepare for future challenges."

Peter Streng
DELEGATE

CIO

"I went to the recent Nordic IT Security Forum in Stockholm. Some presentations stood out, such as Brett Johnson’s talk, who has an impressive speaking skill and a remarkable “career”. David Jacoby’s live-cracking demonstration was also brilliant and informative."

Jan Olsson

Crime Inspector
Swedish Cybercrime Center

"More people appearing at the Nordic IT Security fair today, I myself discussed cloud services while David hacked most of what he saw 🙂 Very interesting to take part in to say the least, you would have to clone yourself though. See you there ! #SC3 #Cybercrime #Itbrott #NordicItSecurity"

“I come to Nordic IT Security to find out what´s happening in the world of computer security, what the newest threats are, which way we can protect ourselves and network with others.”

“Nordic IT Security is a great place to meet the right people.”

“The reason why I really enjoy to attend Nordic IT Security is because I can better educate the market on how to protect themselves against Cyber Crime and attacks.”

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