Speaker: Constantin Schlachetzki, Senior Director Cyber Defense 

Hostile state actors and organized crime are increasingly exploiting new attack vectors against Europe’s critical infrastructure, government agencies, and industry. In addition to established methods that tend to target “central IT,” the focus is now increasingly shifting to areas that represent comparatively unprotected, soft targets: on the one hand, decentralized hardware deployed “across the board” at the network edge, and on the other hand, the world of OT/ICS, which – to date – has also seen comparatively less effort devoted to hardening.

This poses growing challenges for defense efforts (whether carried out independently or in collaboration with a Managed Security Service Provider). And it is h ...