Conference Chairperson & Opening Remarks

Tom Halton, CEO & Principal, HMHmmmmm Ltd. CyberConsulting

Ransomware – has gotten out of hand;

• Understanding the costs of recovering from a Ransomware incident
• Evolved to use multiple coercion tactics
• GDPR implications

Liam Lynch, L2 Cyber Security Solutions

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Legal issues of responding to a ransomware attack

• When must you report the fact of an attack? To what bodies? When?
• Can you legally pay a ransom? When might it be a crime to do so?
• When must you notify individuals that their data has been compromised?
• What will insurance cover in relation to ransomware? What must you do to ensure cover?

Dr TJ McIntyre, Associate Professor, UCD Sutherland School of Law

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Where GDPR meets Cybersecurity

• GDPR and Cybersecurity — brining the two together for a collaborative approach
• How to get management buy-in to invest in GDPR and Cybersecurity in your organisation
• Using GDPR and Cybersecurity to build customer trust
• Future predictions

Andrea Manning, CEO & Founder of CyberPie, GDPR Consultant Data Influence

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Strategies to handle a Cyber-attack when in the middle of the storm

• Do you have a response plan in place for when you WILL BE attacked?
• Precedent set for working from home – what will be the next emergency, when and what do you need to prepare for from a cyber security viewpoint
• Authentication, Identification and Access
• Zero Trust, what is it, why use it?
• Awareness training, this is not a once off exercise – telling the stories behind cybercrime, making it personal and avoiding the fear factor

Conor O’Leary, Channel Account Executive, Sophos

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Impact of emerging technologies: Quantum computing, Cybercurrencies & Blockchain, XR (VR/AR/MR), etc

• Cyber Resilience, getting the right mix of risk management, info security management, crisis management, business continuity and disaster recovery management
• Embracing Emerging Tech: the reimagined business
• Risks and Rewards. Safeguards and supports.
• How ready are you? The Future is Now.

Philipa Jane Farley, BSc (Artificial Intelligence) LLB (IP and IT Law)

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Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, IoT, and Data Security: Personal, Corporate, Social, and Sovereignty, scenarios

• The impact of new technologies on security & compliance
• AI & Machine Learning cyber security considerations
• Blockchain challenges and opportunities with regards to cyber security
• Managing the blur between personal and business data on social media and impact on data compliance
• The concept of Cyber sovereignty and cyber retaliation and its impact moving forward

Mathieu Gorge, CEO, Vigitrust

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Degrade, Deny, Corrupt & Exploit: Understanding Information Warfare

• Background and primer on warfare and military doctrine
• What are the attack modes in Information Warfare?
• A brief discussion on case studies of previous attacks

Paddy Kerley, Final year student of Digital Forensics and Cyber Security at TU Dublin

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Keeping users cyber safe while working from home

• Multifactor authentication don’t work remotely without it!
• Microsoft 365 – Security best practices around Office 365 and remote working
• Microsoft Teams – Security issues arising
• One Drive

Richard Dalton, Technical Director at Rits Information Security