AI in the kill chAIn: a new frontier of digital threats?

This talk will provide an insight in how artificial intelligence is influencing the digital threat landscape. It will examine real-life cases of how threat actors utilize AI in different parts of the cyber kill chain. The examples show how certain parts of the kill chain are being automated, run more efficiently and sometimes even replaced […]

Power, Trust, Responsibility in Fragmented Digital World

Cybersecurity has evolved into a strategic domain at the intersection of geopolitics, economic stability, and societal resilience. Rising global tensions are shaping cyber threats with real-world impacts, while collective defense through international and public–private cooperation becomes essential. The digital space faces a growing tension between anonymity and accountability, as misuse fuels cybercrime and erodes trust. […]

Exploratory Study on Certification of Cyberprofessionals

We are conducting an exploratory study to determine which certification could help strengthen quality assurance in the cybersecurity sector. The labor market, after all, has a particular need for professionals with high-level knowledge and skills. Currently, there is insufficient insight into this quality assurance. Our exploratory study focuses in a general sense on gaining insight […]

How to build a world-class Cyber Defense Center

This talk explains how DICTU built a Cyber Defense Center (CDC), basically a next-generation SOC, combining proactive, threat intel-driven defense and offensive capabilities. We will explain this using a medievil theme, so that you can follow along regardless of your background and technical level of expertise. It covers the motivation for building a CDC, its […]

PQC: Who owns cryptography? When decisions outgrow IT

Most organisations lack clear ownership of cryptographic decisions. With post-quantum cryptography (PQC), this becomes an urgent risk: migration takes years, regulations are tightening, and decisions have long-term business impact. This interactive session focuses on why PQC fails when treated as a technical upgrade rather than a governance and IT operating model challenge. Participants start with […]

Leading the fight against cybercrime

This panel explores leadership in fighting cybercrime within law enforcement and prosecution in a rapidly evolving cyber landscape, accelerated by AI, marked by increasing complexity and mass victimisation. It focuses on how organisations can move from reactive approaches towards more adaptive and forward-looking ways of working, and the role of more human-centred and connective leadership […]

Insights from Next Frontiers in Cybersecurity Research

In this dynamic lightning talk type session, cutting-edge PhD researchers will take the stage to unveil their groundbreaking work, from AI-driven threats to cybersecurity govenance to PQC. Exploring the state-of-the-art in future cybersecurity research, their multidisciplinary insights bridge academia, industry, and society. Get ready for a fast-paced dive into the innovations shaping tomorrow’s digital defenses, […]

PQCmigration in practice: learnings from 7 organizations

With awareness on the quantum threat to cryptography finally rising, many are looking for experience on migrating to quantum safe cryptography. In our PQC workgroup, seven wildly different companies cooperate to build this experience together. In this talk we teach you what we learned by experimenting. Specifically we talk about our inventory Proof of Concepts, […]

Vishing At Scale: Humans vs. Voice Agents

Over the past several years, I’ve run more than a thousand human-to-human vishing calls. Now I’m conducting the same operations with fully automated voice agents, at scale, across F500 and government targets. This presentation is the before/after: humans versus voice agents in real operations. Not a controlled academic study, that’s not how internal red teams […]