Seventh annual Cyber Security Summit kicks off today: CEO Forum tomorrow

The seventh annual Cyber Security Summit organised by the Daily FT and CICRA Consultancies will be held today at the Cinnamon Grand followed by the unique Night Hack in the evening shedding key insights to latest threats and solutions from global and local experts under the theme into ‘prevention is better than investigation’.

The Summit features four keynote speakers, four guest speakers and 10 panellists with dedicated sessions focusing on digital intelligence for making the world a safer place, IOT security for financial services, digital forensic investigation dynamics and tuning-up security in plural social networks.  The Night Hack will feature three useful demonstrations. 

Tomorrow the CEO’s Forum will be held at Cinnamon Grand at 6.30 p.m. whilst the push for cybersecurity awareness kicked-off yesterday with the conduct of the third Youth Summit at the BMICH where over 300 students from schools across the country participating. 

Speakers at today’s full day summit include Bowne Consulting proprietor and InfoSec Decoded Inc. USA founder Dr. Sam Bowne, Visa Head of Risk for India and South Asia Vipin Surelia, Cisco Technical Solutions Architect Cybersecurity Ashraf Ali, Facebook Public Policy Manager India and South Asia Bhairav Acharya, Central Bank Senior Deputy Governor Dr. P.N. Nandalal Weerasinghe, Cellebrite Managing Director APAC Arthur Veinstein, Israel’s Kela Group Director Tuan Tong (TT) Foo and Israel UDC Ltd. CEO Voyager Labs Udi Shaked. 

Local experts include FIU Deputy Director Ayesh Ariyasinghe, SLCERT CEO Lal Dias, ICTA Director Legal Jayantha Fernando, LankaClear General Manager Channa de Silva, STF Commandant Senior DIG M.R. Latiff, HNB Chief Risk Officer Damith Pallewatte, LOLC Technologies CEO Conrad Dias, JKH Group CIO Ramesh Shanmuganathan and ICTA Indika de Soysa, Sri Lanka Insurance Corporation AGM Risk Management Sathika Wickramasinghe.

The strategic partners of 2019 Cyber Security Summit are Cisco and Visa. Co-Sponsor is Cellebrite, official payment network LankaPay, Insurance partner is Sri Lanka Insurance, official printing partner Lake House Printers and Publishers, hospitality partner Cinnamon grand, creative partner Triad, and electronic media partner TV Derana.