Centre for Cybersecurity Belgium (CCB) - Quarterly Cyber Threat Report Event (QCTR) - 2021-Q4

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  Julian-Ferdinand Vögele Cyber Threat Intelligence Consultant @ Recorded Future

  Julian-Ferdinand is a threat intelligence consultant at Recorded Future, where he advises organizations on the latest developments in the cyber threat landscape and assists them in strengthening their intelligence and security capabilities. Before joining Recorded Future, he worked as an IT security consultant at Security Research Labs, where he helped organizations to optimize their vulnerability management and monitoring capabilities, engaged in red team exercises, and conducted security research (e.g., exploit optimization, honeypot research). Prior to this, he completed his M.Sc. in Computer Science from UCL and a B.A. in Economics with stints in the US, China, and Germany and gained first-hand experience in data analytics at McKinsey and various tech start-ups. He is a scholar of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation.

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  Seongsu Park Senior Security Researcher @ Kaspersky

  Seongsu Park is a senior security researcher on the Global Research and Analysis Team at Kaspersky. He has extensive experience in malware research and threat intelligence with a focus on response to highly skilled Korean-speaking threat actors.

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  Milan Pikula Deputy Director @ NCSC SK-CERT

  Milan Pikula has life-long passion for cyber security, software development and FOSS software, UNIX/Linux and networking. In his current role, as deputy director of National Cyber Security Centre SK-CERT, he oversees CSIRT provided services and always looks for ways to improve their effectivity and quality. One of the ways is to develop new open-source software to solve existing problems.

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  Koen Bossaert Solution Lead @ Davinsi Labs

  Koen is a seasoned security professional, specialized in the fields of vulnerability management, penetration testing, attack/adversary simulation, threat modeling and security analytics. As co- founder of Davinsi Labs, he’s been working to establish Davinsi Labs as a thought leader in the field of Digital Service Excellence, focused on Security Intelligence and Service Intelligence. In his current role, Koen is working on scaling operations through the development of managed services for vulnerability management. Koen is holding the CISSP and CISA certifications.

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  Markus Neis Threat Intelligence Lead @ Swisscom

  Markus is Swisscoms threat intelligence lead with a major focus on targeted attacks. He has more than a decade experience in understanding adversary tradecraft and responding to advanced attacks. He has extensive experience in building detection and defensible architectures, loves mentoring and coaching others as well as creating detections. Previously he did SIGINT and was part of a special german armed forces unit

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  Miguel de Bruycker Managing Director @ Centre for Cybersecurity Belgium (CCB)

  Miguel De Bruycker studied at the Royal Military School and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. After writing a dissertation on Cyber Defence in 2005, he joined the General Intelligence and Security Service and was responsible for the security of classified networks and the creation of the first cybersecurity unit of the Belgian Defence. Since 2008 , he and his cyberteam are involved in the processing of all major cyber incidents in Belgium. On August 17, 2015 , he became Managing Director of the Centre for Cybersecurity Belgium.

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  Christopher Frenz AVP of IT Security @ Mount Sinai South Nassau

  Christopher Frenz is the AVP of IT Security for Mount Sinai South Nassau. Before, he served as the AVP of IT Security at Interfaith Medical Center where he worked to develop the hospital’s information security program and infrastructure. Under his leadership, the hospital had been one of the first in the country to embrace a zero-trust model for network security. He's author of the OWASP Secure Medical Device Deployment Standard, the OWASP Anti-Ransomware Guide, computer programming books “Pro Perl Parsing” and “Visual Basic and Visual Basic .NET for Scientists and Engineers”. He currently chairs the AEHIS Incident Response Committee, which has released deliverables designed to help hospitals test and improve their incident response capabilities and guidance on dealing with the information security challenges brought on by COVID. He shared his expertise at conferences around the world, such as VMworld, ASIS GSX, Defcon, HIMSS, etc...

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  Bernard Montel EMEA Technical Director & Security Strategist @ Tenable

  With over 20 years in the security industry, Bernard’s expertise includes cryptography, Identity & Access Management, and SOC domains. Bernard is currently EMEA Technical Director and Security Strategist for Tenable.

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  Costin Raiu Director, Global Research and Analysis Team @ Kaspersky

  Costin specializes in analyzing advanced persistent threats, zero-day exploits and complex malware. He is leading the Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) at Kaspersky that researched the inner workings of many high-profile attacks, including WannaCry, ShadowPad and ShadowHammer, Moonlight Maze and the Equation group.

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  Caroline Breure Threat Research Centre Lead @ Center for Cybersecurity Belgium (CCB)

  Kevin Holvoet started as a Security Engineer at Euroclear. In 2017 he started at the CCB, specializing as a CTI Analyst in CyTRIS (Cyber Threat Research & Intelligence Sharing), where he now leads the Threat Research Centre. In October 2020, he became a SANS instructor for the FOR578 CTI training.

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  Pedro Deryckere Head of CCB/CyTRIS @ Centre for Cybersecurity Belgium (CCB)

  Pedro began his IT career in the 1980s as an analyst/programmer. He developed both industrial and administrative software and specialized mainly in Clipper. He joined the "Rijkswacht" corps in 1995; a paramilitary police force in Belgium. In 2010 he became a Specialized Chief Inspector and joined the Federal Computer Crime Unit. He was part of the intelligence team of which he later became team leader. In 2013, he was one of the lead investigators in the "Belgacom" espionage case. In 2016, he joined the Centre for Cyber security Belgium (CCB). He was intensively involved in the re-launch of CERT.be. Within that team, he founded the CTI team named CyTRIS (Cyber Threat Research and Intelligence Sharing). In 2020 CyTRIS became a separate department within CCB, which he now leads