Digital technologies and internet have transformed our everyday lives. We use them to access information, conduct business in our organizations, keep in touch with family and friends, and engage with state institutions. The internet offers huge potential for people. But with greater openness and dependency comes also potential risks. Our use of the internet has created new opportunities and motivation for cyber criminals. Organized criminal groups are increasingly using digital technologies to facilitate their criminal activities, to commit crimes, in this regard specifically cybercrimes.
Cybercrime is a clear and present danger that has turned into a silent global digital epidemic. Cybercrime encompasses a wide range of offences, including hacking of computers, data and systems, computer-related forgery and fraud such a phishing and harming, content offences via dissemination of pirated content. It has evolved from the mischievous one-upmanship of cyber vandals to a range of profit-making professional criminal enterprises in a remarkably short time. And there is a rapidly growing nexus between cybercrime and a variety of other threats, including industrial espionage, foreign intelligence services and terrorism. This seminar will include an overview of modern cyber threats such as spear phishing, malware, zero-day attacks and advanced persistent threats. Perspective on bleeding edge attacks on smartphones, connected devices, cars and industrial systems will be given.
A successful organization should have the following multiple layers of security in place to protect its operations: physical security, personnel security, operations security communications security, network security and information security. Physical security, to protect physical items, objects, or areas from unauthorized access and misuse. Personnel security, to protect the individual or group of individuals who are authorized to access the organization and its operations. Operations security, to protect the details of a particular operation or series of activities. Communications security, to protect communications media, technology, and content. Network security, to protect networking components, connections, and contents. Information security, to protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information assets, whether in storage, processing, or transmission. It is achieved via the application of policy, education, training and awareness, and technology.
Major protection mechanisms will be covered in the seminar, including policy management, user awareness programs, network segmentation, IPS/IDS, sandboxing, patch management, HIPS, endpoint hardening and data protection.
About the Speaker
An experienced leader in IT industry. VP of Engineering and the Head of Singapore R&D Centre at Acronis. Main goal in his current position is to grow Acronis R&D in Singapore, conduct innovative research, build new products and work closely with local development and educational institutions.
Eugene has built and managed research team in Beijing, China while working in Kaspersky Lab. Later he managed an international research team (50+ employees) in the same company. At this position, he helped Kaspersky Lab to achieve best possible results in independent security product benchmarks. Besides that, he invented multiple protection technologies, some of which were patented. After Kaspersky Lab, Eugene worked as an independent cyber security consultant with the Security Startup Challenge accelerator as a major project, coaching and advising startups in technology. Later he headed security research team in GeoEdge, where he dramatically improved product capabilities to fight modern web threats.
Eugene holds MS in Computer Science from Bauman Moscow State Technical University. He is the author of a number of publications in cyber security and has done multiple public speaking engagements as well as workshops and trainings.
