The New Global Challenges in Cyber Security - #certcon8

15-17th Oct 2018, The National Library, Bucharest, Romania

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The speakers

Viorel Stefan

Viceprime-minister of Romania

Mr. Ștefan has held the office of viceprime-minister since January 2018. With over 25 years of experience in the public sector, he has held various leading positions ranging from Minister of Finance to the President for the Buget, Fianance and Banking Commission in the Romanian Parliament. In 2002 he recieved his PhD in Economics from the University of Galați.

Houlin Zhao

Secretary General of the International Telcommunications Union

On 23 October 2014 Houlin Zhao was elected 19th Secretary-General of the ITU. His four-year mandate started on 1 January 2015. Born in 1950 in Jiangsu, China, Mr Zhao graduated from Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, and holds an MSc in Telematics from the University of Essex in the UK.More...

Petru Bogdan Cojocaru

Minister of Communications and Information Society

Mr. Cojocaru is the acting Minister of Communications and Information Society since May 2018. He has held numerous management positions in the IT&C sector in both private and public organisations. More...

Victor Negrescu

Minister Delegate for European Affairs

Winner of the MEP Award 2015 for Digital Agenda, Victor Negrescu is the youngest Romanian MEP to get elected in the European Parliament. Former digital entrepreneur, he is actively promoting legislation designed to stimulate the online and digital More...

Valentin Becheru

Armed Forces General Staff

Education and Training:
2013 - Postgraduate course in JOINT strategic management, National Defense University, Bucharest;
2005 - PhD in Military Sciences with the thesis "Frequency Management in the Transmission System of the Common Arms Operative Unit", National Defense University, Bucharest;
1998 - Leadership training of troop - transmission troops, Germany;
1991-1993 - Courses of the Academy of Advanced Military Studies, Army Faculty, Broadcasting Specialty;
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Sorin Ducaru

H.E. Ambassador, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute

Ambassador Sorin Dumitru Ducaru is a Romanian career diplomat with a longstanding experience in trans-Atlantic and International Relations and a particular expertise in the field of emerging security challenges and the impact of new technologies upon security. More...

Maria-Manuela Catrina

Secretary of State office in the Ministry of Communications and Information Society

Maria-Manuela Catrina holds the Secretary of State office in the Ministry of Communications and Information Society and is the Executive Director of the Ovidiu Șincai Institute. She is an alumni of the National Defence College and More...

Mark Pfeifle

Founder and President of Off the Record Strategies

Mark Pfeifle is the founder and president of Off the Record Strategies, a company specializing in public relations. Previously, he was the national security counselor of former president George W.Bush and More...

Ken Ducatel

Acting Head, CERT-EU

Since July 2017, Ken Ducatel is the acting Head of CERT-EU, the Computer Emergency Response Team for the EU Institutions and Agencies. More...

James Smythers

Cyber Officer, US Embassy in Bucharest

James Smythers is Foreign Service Officer since 2016 at US Embassy in Bucharest and he was Senior Congressional Advisor between 2015 and 2016 in Washington at D.C. Metro Area and More...

Marcin Paciorkowski

Regional Sales Engineer, Kapsch

Marcin Paciorkowski is Regional Sales Engineer at CyberArk. He was Security Consultant at CLICO between 2015-2018, Pre-sales engineer - IT Security at Orange Polska, More...

Boris Radanovic

Safer Internet Center UK

Boris Radanović is the Awareness Coordinator for Croatian Safer Internet Centre. His main responsibility is to engage media and the general public in the debate about safer internet practices, as well as to develop new tools and services that are beneficial to the project. More...

Fred Streefland

CSO North-Eastern Europe, Palo Alto Networks

With more than 25 years of experience within Security & Intelligence, Fred is currently working as the Sr. Product Marketing Manager EMEA for Palo Alto Networks, responsible for the content of all Palo Alto Networks products. More...

Mariusz Stawowski

CTO, Clico

For more than 20 years Mariusz Stawowski has been responsible for management of the security projects, audits, and professional services as well as technical marketing and business development. More...

Thomas Schrek

COB, FIRST

Thomas Schreck is a Principal Engineer with Siemens Corporate Technology and responsible for research topics within the operative IT Security areas, Siemens CERT and ProductCERT. More...

Radu Stanescu

Senior Information Security Consultant, European Parliament/ANSS

Radu Stanescu has over 10 years of experience in the cybersecurity, focused on network and web application penetration testing and training services. He worked as an IT Security Consultant for several large More...

Adrian Danciu

Regional Director South Eastern Europe – FORTINET

Adrian Danciu is an experienced IT&C professional, with more than 15 years proven track record in IT Security. In 2005 he introduced Fortinet on the Romanian market and further developed the presence of the company in Balkans and Adriatic region. More...

Rastislav Janota

Director, SK-CERT

Rastislav is an experienced international senior executive (20+ years) with broad areas of experience. Focused on operational management of service providers, mobile operators and internet service providers. Deep knowledge of technical management, More...

Valentin Necoara

CTO, CertSign

Ing Valentin Necoara is responsible on behalf of 2nd Partner (certSIGN) is PKI&Crypto Business Unit Manager. He graduated from Automatics and Computers Faculty, “Politehnica” University of Bucharest and has a MSc in Information Security Management at the Military Technical Academy in Bucharest. More...

Cristian Cucu

Secretary of State for Information Technology in the General Secretariat of the Government

Secretary of State for Information Technology in the General Secretariat of the Government; appointed in 2016 in this position also known as the governmental CIO, with attributions in accelerating the interoperability and More...

Ovidiu Pismac

Account Technology Strategist, Microsoft Romania

Since 2006, Ovidiu is responsible for Microsoft Security, Virtualization and Management solutions from the System Center family, or the Windows® Operating System / Azure Security Center for Windows and Linux servers. More...

Marius Iordache

IP Network Architect, Orange Romania

“Active CCIE” certified Network Architect, with 13 years of experience in telcos and extended expertise in complex networks architecture, design and planning. Coordinator and contributor to numerous transversal projects, deployed by European consortiums in RIA type projects, focused on 5G network architecture. More...

Catalin Cosoi

Chief Security Strategist at Bitdefender

Alexandru Cătălin Cosoi is Chief Security Strategist at Bitdefender, responsible for mobilizing and publishing the company's technological advances. Catalin specializes in extracting templates and recognition technologies, More...

Adrian Aldea

EMEA Security Tiger Team, IBM

Over 15 years in computer science & security solutions, product and business development with a focus on complex solutions and services engagements for More...

Laurent Chrzanovski

Prof. Univ. PhD. Habil. - Founder, Cybersecurity Trends

With a PhD in Roman Archaeology obtained at the University of Lausanne, a Postdoctoral Research Degree in History and Sociology at the Romanian Academy of Sciences, and an EU Habilitation to direct PhDs in History and More...

Adrian Victor Vevera

Technical Director National Institute for Research and Development in Informatics

Senior Researcher, Technical Director and member of the Scientific Council of the National Institute for Research and Development in Informatics ICI, Bucharest; Ph.D. in Military Sciences and Information, being both a lawyer and More...

Ioan Cosmin Mihai

PhD, Assoc. Prof., “A . I. Cuza” Police Academy

Ioan-Cosmin MIHAI is a researcher, trainer and conference speaker in the fields of cybersecurity, cybercrime and international cooperation. With a PhD and a postdoc in cybersecurity, he coordinate research projects and More...

Ovidiu Neghina

CS Specialist, CISCO

With over 15 years of experience in the IT&C Industry, Ovidiu Neghina, CCIE R&S., has held various technical and sales postition in the CISCO Romania team, which he has been a member of for over 12 years.

Gad Neveh

Advanced Threat Prevention Evangelist, Checkpoint

Gadi works closely with Check Point's Threat Intelligence and Research & Development teams to help customers understand the current threat environment and how they can prevent attacks. With more than 15 years of Information Security More...

Iustin Priescu

PhD,Assoc.Prof.Eng – Dean, Titu Maiorescu University

Assoc. Prof. Eng. Iustin PRIESCU, PhD is Dean of the Faculty of Informatics at the Titu Maiorescu University, Romania and has over 20 years of experience in research and development in the field of information security. He has been involved in More...

Almerindo Graziano

CEO, Silensec

Almerindo Graziano is a senior academic at Sheffield Hallam University, where he leads the MSc in Information Systems Security, in collaboration with the British Standard Institution (BSI), and for which he has also developed and More...

Vincent Danjean

Head, Interpol - Cyberspace and New Technologies Laboratory

Past positions: - Head, Information Security Incident Response
- Operational Digital Forensics support
- managing the technical counter surveillance measures team ICPO INTERPOL General Secretariat.
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Jaroslaw Ponder

Head of ITU Office for Europe

Mr Ponder is Head of the ITU Office for Europe at the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) (Geneva, Switzerland), representing ITU in Europe and directing actions, projects, initiatives and More...

Michael McMullan

Cyberspace Operations Security Cooperation, United States European Command

Cristian Iordan

Cyberint

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