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PAST EVENT · EDITION 5

Cyber Security Summit 2017

The fifth edition brought ethical hacking, a day conference, Night Hack, and executive discussion together. A separate youth summit was held on 28 June.

201727–28 September 2017Cinnamon Grand, Colombo
2017 · THE SUMMIT

About the summit

Welcome to the website of Sri Lanka’s premier annual cyber security awareness initiative – Cyber Security Summit.

As we celebrate our fifth year, the 2017 edition will highlight two founder members of world’s toughest hacking groups – LulzSec and Anonymous, namely Darren Martyn and Jake Davis. They had been convicted and are now hired by top corporates to engage in ethical hacking. This year’s Summit will be held on 27th and 28th September 2017 at Cinnamon Grand.

The Cyber Security Summit consists of four key annual events:

– Cyber Security Day Conference – (Premier event open for public*) on September 27 from 9.00 am to 5.00pm– Hangout with Hackers (Night Hack) – evening edutainment meetup – (Premier event open for public*) on September 27 from 6.30pm onwards– CEO Forum on Cyber Security – an exclusive invitation only event on September 28.– National Youth Summit on Cyber Security (Youth Summit) – an invitation only day conference. The 2017 edition was held on June 28 with the participation of nearly 300 students and teachers.

Main objective of the summit is to create awareness on the importance of Cyber Security among top officers in the top corporate management and IT professionals. It also infuses them with the best practices in acquiring, implementing, managing and measuring information security postures of their organizations and countermeasures

The summit will also expose latest flaws in information security that affects the global community including the corporations and the governments. Discussions and presentations will revolve around some of the most malicious attacks and potential threats surrounding the security field.

The summit is co-organised by CICRA – Sri Lanka’s pioneering cyber security training and consultancy organization – and Daily FT, country’s only business and finance newspaper.

2017 · THE SUMMIT

Day Conference

The conference is a full day event which has four sessions, with each session having a keynote and a guest speaker followed by a panel discussion. There will be a number of international speakers specially flown down for the conference; They will be matched by many local experts as well. All sessions will focus on vendor neutral awareness raising.

2017 · THE SUMMIT

Hangout with Hackers (Night Hack)

Evening edutainment meetup where ethical hackers will do demonstrations and engage with the audience to showcase the latest skills. The audience will receive a better understanding on the need for proactive strategies for corporate IT infrastructure through these demonstrations. The demonstrations will also emphasise the need to recognise ethical hackers as a profession and the importance of hiring them for proactive exercises to ensure enterprise IT security.

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CEO Forum

Taking the discussion on cyber security to the top corporate boardroom, CEOs’ Forum facilitates proactive engagement of the CEOs to protect the corporate IT infrastructure of their respective organisations. This is crucial as certain significant decisions on corporate IT security could otherwise be delayed until a major incident could even shut down the entire business.

2017 · COLLABORATION

Sponsors

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2017 · PEOPLE

Speaker Profiles

The original page also retained speaker profiles repeated on other edition pages. They are preserved below as source content; their presence does not independently confirm participation in this edition.

Guest of Honour

Lieutenant General Shavendra Silva2017 · Guest of Honour

Lieutenant General Shavendra Silva

WWV, RWP, RSP, USP, psc, Commander of Army

Sri Lanka Army
About the speaker

Dr. Bowne is the proprietor of Bowne Consulting and an instructor at City College San Francisco, USA. Since 2007, he had been a frequent speaker at Defcon, world's largest annual hacker conference held in Las Vegas, USA, where he has been honoured with Black Badge. He is also a speaker at several other top security conferences such as HOPE, RSA BsideLV and BsideSF. He has been teaching hacking and security classes for more than 10 years all around the world.

Keynote Speakers

Dr. Sam Bowne2017 · Keynote Speakers

Dr. Sam Bowne

Founder

InfoSec Decoded, Inc. - Defcon (USA & China) Speaker
About the speaker

Dr. Bowne is the proprietor of Bowne Consulting and an instructor at City College San Francisco, USA. Since 2007, he had been a frequent speaker at Defcon, world's largest annual hacker conference held in Las Vegas, USA, where he has been honoured with Black Badge. He is also a speaker at several other top security conferences such as HOPE, RSA BsideLV and BsideSF. He has been teaching hacking and security classes for more than 10 years all around the world.

Vipin Surelia2017 · Keynote Speakers

Vipin Surelia

Head of Risk for India and South Asia

Visa
About the speaker

Suralia is responsible for championing security in the industry and maintaining the integrity of the payments ecosystem for Visa. This complex and fast evolving ecosystem includes issuing and acquiring clients, merchants, cardholders, and service providers such as processors, device manufacturers, and payment gateways. Earlier, Vipin was founder Chief Risk and Compliance Officer for Paytm Payments Bank. Vipin was head of Products at National Payments Corporation of India before and has also worked with Reserve Bank of India, IBM and HSBC

Bhairav Acharya2017 · Keynote Speakers

Bhairav Acharya

Public Policy Manager

Facebook
About the speaker

Acharya works on privacy, cyber security, encryption, and emerging technologies at Facebook. Prior to joining Facebook, he was a Program Fellow at New America’s Open Technology Institute in Washington DC where he worked on transatlantic encryption regulation. Earlier, he was the Law and Policy Advisor for the Centre for Internet and Society in Bangalore where he led a multi-stakeholder project on future Indian privacy law

Ashraf Ali2017 · Keynote Speakers

Ashraf Ali

Technical Solutions Architect, Cyber Security

Cisco
About the speaker

Ali specializes in strategic projects involving cyber security solutions such as SOC for Enterprise, Managed Security Service Providers and IT Services Providers. He works with Big-4s and other consulting firms to influence and enable them on Cisco Security solutions. Earlier, he has worked with Tata Communications and Sify Technologies, leading engineering functions for their MSSP, Cloud and ISP engineering functions

Guest Speakers

Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe2017 · Guest Speakers

Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe

Senior Deputy Governor

Central Bank Sri Lanka
About the speaker

Dr. Weerasinghe is also the Chairman of the Monetary Policy Committee and the Foreign Reserve Management Committee of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka. He currently functions as Senior Deputy Governor supervising the Departments of Economic Research, Statistics, International Operations, Domestic Operations, Macroprudential Surveillance, Exchange Control, Currency and Communications. Prior to his appointment, he was the Alternate Executive Director for India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Bhutan. Dr. Weerasinghe has a Ph.D and Master’s Degree in Economics from the Australian National University and a B.Sc. Degree from the University of Kelaniya in Sri Lanka.

Arthur Veinstein2017 · Guest Speakers

Arthur Veinstein

Managing Director

Cellebrite APAC
About the speaker

Prior to joining Cellebrite, Arthur held several leadership positions at Qognify, NICE Systems (NASDAQ: NICE), Starhome Mach, Comverse (NASDAQ: CMVT) and other international companies. He brings over 20 years of executive leadership experience in Security and Telecom markets in the APAC region.

Tuan Tong2017 · Guest Speakers

Tuan Tong

Director

Kela Group
About the speaker

With a focus on technology evangelising and new market penetration, Tong is an expert in Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) for cyber security since 2010. Earlier, he served in the telecom and IT network infrastructure fields for over a decade.

Udi Shaked2017 · Guest Speakers

Udi Shaked

Chief Executive Officer

UDC Pte Ltd
About the speaker

With a focus on technology evangelising and new market penetration, Tong is an expert in Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) for cyber security since 2010. Earlier, he served in the telecom and IT network infrastructure fields for over a decade.

THE NEXT GENERATION

Youth Cyber Security Summit 2017

2017 · YOUTH SUMMIT · THE SUMMIT

Youth Summit on Cyber Security 2017

Majority of the youth are unaware of the importance of Cyber Security and through this Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative, we intend to empower the youth with the knowledge on latest global trends in Cyber Security and holistic career guidance on the Cyber Security Profession.

This Youth Summit is part and parcel of the annual Cyber Security Summit which is on the sixth year. Other components of the Cyber Security Summit are the full day conference for corporates, night hack and the invitation only CEOs forum on Cyber Security as a board room discussion.

2017 · YOUTH SUMMIT · MOMENTS

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