CyberShield

Deputy Chief Executive at CERT.LV. Varis Teivāns has been active in cyber security for more than 15 years. He has also been involved in the creation and operation of Latvia’s first national unit of CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team). Currently, Varis Teivāns leads a CERT.LV technical team that works daily with cyber incidents of varying scale and complexity. His work and contribution to the strengthening of cyber security in Latvia have been welcomed by both the Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Latvia and the State Police.

Cathal Mc Daid is one of the world's foremost experts in mobile network security, and he leads a team responsible for research in the fields of cyber security & mobile networks. His pivotal work in the industry has been recognized by the GSM Association where he is the editor and author of the SS7 Interconnect Security Guidelines (GSMA FS.11) and the 5G Interconnect Security Guidelines (GSMA FS.36). His research work focuses on exploitation of mobile core network and messaging technologies, including the discovery of the actively exploited Simjacker SIM card vulnerability, as well as the area of nation-state exploitation of mobile core networks. He holds a BEng from University of Limerick, Ireland and an EMBA from INSEAD, France.

Oleksandr Fedienko is People's Deputy of Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of IX convocation, the member of Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence. Previously, he was the Deputy Chairperson of the Committee on Digital Transformation. He has an experience in digital sector reforms, as well as cyber security skills. Also Oleksandr was a Chairman of the Board of the Ukrainian Internet Association (UIA).

Roman Zaitsev is a member of the Ukrainian Computer Emergency Response Team CERT-UA. The main profile is the Cyber Incident Response and Malware Analysis. He has experience as a Cyber Incident Response Trainer at the Cyber Range Platform, which operates as a part of the State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection of Ukraine.

Glen Grant worked as a defence and reform expert in Ukraine working for the Ukrainian Institute for the Future. His key work in the last twenty years has been delivering reform and change for defence and security organisations in Europe. He has worked in the Defence Ministries of Ukraine, Latvia, Estonia, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Montenegro, Moldova, Poland, Albania, Kosovo, Slovenia, Serbia and Chile. As a business consultant he has worked with telecoms, agriculture, publishing and manufacturing. He worked on the operational and policy staffs in many different British and NATO Headquarters and MOD UK. Glen lives in Latvia and is a faculty member of Riga Business School lecturing on the Bachelor of Business Administration course in Strategy, HRM, Crisis Management and Entrepreneurship.

Dmitrijs Ņikitins is a member of Tet board and Chief Technology Officer from 2021. Before that Dmitrijs was an IT director, Director of network operations and Head of external customer support department. He has a deep knowledge in IT strategy planning, digital transformation, DevOps and software development. Dmitrijs holds a degree in computer science from Riga Technical University and is a certified agilist.

Nimrod Kravicas is a security geek that spent over 20 years researching, learning, and playing with security as a whitehat, finding vulnerabilities and ways to protect against them. During the presentation he will share insight of A10 DDoS technology that can help both enterprises and service providers.

Mg. sc. comp., Mg.phys. Kirils Solovjovs is an IT policy activist, bug bounty hunter, and the most visible whitehat hacker in Latvia having discovered and responsibly disclosed or reported multiple security vulnerabilities in information systems of both national and international significance. He has vast experience in network flow analysis, reverse engineering, social engineering and security incident investigation. Kirils' professional competence is complemented by helping out NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence with the "Crossed Swords" red team exercise. 

Ron Meyran is a security and SDN industry expert who represents Radware at various industry events and training sessions. His thought leadership and opinion pieces have been widely published in leading IT & security industry magazines and he holds a B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Ben-Gurion University and a MBA from Tel Aviv University.

Māris Sperga is a director of Tet data center business development with more than 20-year experience in IT. Maris is an expert in integrated IT solutions, has deep knowledge in secure data processing, data center and cloud technologies. Holds a master's degree in IT from Riga Technical University. At Tet is also responsible for data center international business, including Ukraine, where Tet is in the TOP-3 data center market players.

For the past decade Mikko Ala-Jaakkola has hold several roles in building and securing industrial control systems, IT and cloud services. Currently he is helping Finnish organizations to secure their industrial environments from cyber threats and minimize risk.

Maxim is an experienced professional with a demonstrated history of working in the computer software industry with focus on cyber security field for the last 6+ years. Working with different countries and cultures, Maxim developed skills that help him corelate very well his knowledge of products&services with the customer's needs. Maxim has big experience of over 11 years in channel sales and business management and is acting now as a Business Development Manager at Bitdefender covering 15+ countries.

Trained as a qualified teacher, Ville Hämäläinen has a strong passion in cyber security and life-long learning. At Hoxhunt, he helps CISO’s to free themselves and their teams from time-consuming decisions and optimize results with our platform that automatically builds just the right training paths for every employee.

Marianne Medar has an extensive background in the Estonian security and defense sector. Over the past ten years, she has led business and software development projects focusing on helping organizations become more data-centric. At CybExer Technologies, she oversees the Cyber Range as a Service program, coordinating CybExer´s goal to make cyber ranges accessible to a broader audience.