Financial Institutions Edition
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Terje Aleksander Fjeldvær
SVP – Head of Financial Cyber Crime Center (FC3), DNB Bank

Tom Engly
Director, Chief Security Officer, Tryg

Eva Throne-Holst
Information Security Officer, Nordnet Bank

Jytte Adelmark

Josefin Nimstedt
CISO, ICA Banken (TBD)

Tony Kylberg
Head of Group Security & Cyber Defence, CSO/CISO, SEB

Filip Johnssén
Senior Legal Counsel Privacy, Klarna

Ingela Schmidt
Chief Information Security Officer, SEB Pension & Försäkring

Steve Brown
Director, Cyber Security, Mastercard

Christoph Brecht
VP Sales EMEA, Build38

Dimitrios Stergiou
CISO, Trustly

Andreas Bergqvist
CSO/CISO Finansiell ID-Teknik, Bank-ID

Erik Blomberg
CISO, Handelsbanken

Jens Christian Høy Monrad

Jon Overgaard Christiansen
Nordic Manager – Principal Consultant in Mandiant Consulting & Red Team Services

Jason Lau
CISO, Crypto dot com

Kasper Nissen

Teemu Ylhäisi
Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), OP Financial Group

Thea Sogenbits

Martynas Savickas
CISO | Head of Information and IT security, SEB Lietuvoje

Navaz Sumar
The Business Agenda
Tuesday, April 15 -16, 2021
Dear Executives,
Cyberattacks are the fastest growing crime globally and predicted to cost the world $6 trillion annually in the next 2 years.
One of the most affected industries are finance and banking along with manufacturing, healthcare, government, education, transportation and energy. Governments and some other public sectors are severely underfunded and lack the knowledge to deal with the current situation.
To help them and the most affected industry, banking and finance, we have put together the Financial Institution Edition of Annual Nordic IT Security (NITS) summit.
Day 1
08:45
KICK OFF
08:55
Networking Village + (1-1) Meetings
09:40
Mitigating Risk & Fraud Prevention
- Could you please give me a real life example of a sophisticated fraud case where criminals have adapted to using new technology?
- How did you react to mitigate risk in the short term?
- What are your long term plans to mitigate and prevent these sort of incidents?

Terje Aleksander Fjeldvær
SVP – Head of Financial Cyber Crime Center (FC3), DNB Bank
09:55
Keynote – To Be Announced
10:15
Expert Pannel – To Be Announced
10:50
Keynote – To Be Announced
11:10
Is proactive being enough when it comes to Cyber Insurance?
- How cyber insurance companies help to protect customers?
- How to increase awareness within organizations to prevent being attacked?
- Enhance security: How can we as insurance providers take so called preventive steps to mitigate their main risks?

Tom Engly
Director, Chief Security Officer, Tryg

Steve Brown
Director, Cyber Security, Mastercard

Jytte Adelmark
11:40
How you push the bad guys away from your mobile app
How Hacker-frustration leads to security
- From Mobile First to Mobile only
- The challenge of making apps great and safe
- Addressing the Man-in-the-middle

Christoph Brecht
VP Sales EMEA, Build38
12:00
Back to the future of banking with e-commerce payment system
- What is your take on the Payment revolution?
- What would you address as your biggest challenge at minute and what will be the knock on effect if it is not mitigated within the cybersecurity team?
- Why is it important to take a proactive approach rather than a reactive approach?
- What is the importance of intangible money in this moment in time?

Dimitrios Stergiou
CISO, Trustly
12:15
Networking Village + (1-1) Meetings
13:00
Digital transformation, e-identification: Sweden leading the way
- A secure e-identification, a prerequisite for a sustainable digital society
- Sweden’s digital transformation through the use of e-identification enabling digital transactions
- Addressing differences pre, during and post pandemic.

Andreas Bergqvist
CSO/CISO Finansiell ID-Teknik, Bank-ID
13:15
‘Know Your Enemy: Understand, prepare for and proactively protect against the latest cyber threats’
In this joint keynote between Mandiant Threat Intelligent and Mandiant Consulting Services, we will cover the current cyber threat landscape, key trends observed and obtained during research and incident response and talk about how you can apply the threat actor knowledge proactively inside your organization.
The keynote will focus on three topics:
- Current Cyber Threat landscape
- Threat Actor Spotlight: FIN11
- How to operationalize cyber threat intelligence into proactive defense and be better prepared for the next cyber threat.

Jens Christian Høy Monrad

Jon Overgaard Christiansen
Nordic Manager – Principal Consultant in Mandiant Consulting & Red Team Services
13:35
The challenge of securing Fintech
- Is the current model for regulation inhibiting free competition and the development of attractive financial services?
- Would a system of certifications and shared security solutions for the financial market increase both security and agility in business development?
- Are there security solutions that would provide even higher levels of security if shared between financial institutions?

Eva Throne-Holst
Information Security Officer, Nordnet Bank

Erik Blomberg
CISO, Handelsbanken
14:10
Keynote – To Be Announced
14:30
Shifting security left while building a Cloud Native bank

Kasper Nissen
14:50
Creating impact with cyber security culture transformation

Teemu Ylhäisi
Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), OP Financial Group
15:00
Summary/Networking Village + (1-1) Meetings
Day 2
08:45
KICK OFF
08:45
Networking Village + (1-1) Meetings
09:40
Blockchain technology shaping the future of digital finance

Jason Lau
CISO, Crypto dot com
09:55
Information security challenges in rapidly evolving Baltic fintech/startup environment
- Challenges fintech’s are facing during first years in business
- Financial sector old-timers transformation to adhere to new digital services demand.
- Information, IT, cybersecurity workforce market in Baltics

Martynas Savickas
CISO | Head of Information and IT security, SEB Lietuvoje
10:20
Main Stage Product Presentation
11:25
In Conversation with: To Be Announced
11:40
Networking Village + (1-1) Meetings
The Round Tables
RT 01
Digitalization and Cloud Services in Banking and Finance
- How challenging is it when it comes to onboarding?
- Are we prepared for the future of banking?
- Cloud security for cloud services.

Tony Kylberg
Head of Group Security & Cyber Defence, CSO/CISO, SEB
RT 02
Maneuvering data protection in highly regulated landscapes
- How to handle opposite requirements in multiple legislations
- What special law should prevail over the other?
- Is it possible to accomodate all authorities at the same time?

Filip Johnssén
Senior Legal Counsel Privacy, Klarna
RT 03
Regulatory challenges within security
- Digital resilience
- Outsourcing business
- Software as a service

Ingela Schmidt
Chief Information Security Officer, SEB Pension & Försäkring
RT 04
Minions and do-gooders - CISOs view on insider threat
- What is the difference between pre pandemic and during pandemic?
- What is the biggest challenge here IoT connected devices or mobile app protection?

Thea Sogenbits
RT 05
Behaviour and Culture, the human factor in security
- Human Behaviour/factors that impact risk perception
- Organisational Security culture
- Communication of information Security

Navaz Sumar
RT 06
Era of open banking
- How sustainable finance is in the era of open banking?
- Transformation getting better or bitter?
- Sharing best practices.
RT 07
IoT and mobile app protection
- What is the difference between pre pandemic and during pandemic?
- What is the biggest challenge here IoT connected devices or mobile app protection?