Securing The Way Forward

The changing cyber landscape is becoming increasingly difficult to navigate for security leaders. With constant new threat vectors to consider, an increased attack surface for most businesses, and the developing sophistication of malicious actors, cyber security practitioners are under more pressure than ever to secure their people and business. Adding to this pressure is rising consumer awareness and scrutiny due to the public nature of large-scale cyber security breaches. This summit will bring together senior security leaders from across Australia’s leading organisations for a strategic discussion on the state of cyber security and resilience.

Black Hat provides attendees with the latest in research, development, and trends in Information Security. Here the brightest professionals and researchers in the industry come together for a total of four days—two or four days of deeply technical hands-on Trainings, followed by two days of the latest research and vulnerability disclosures in the Briefings. Black Hat Asia will be a Live, In-Person Event in Singapore, May 9-12, followed one week later by a Virtual Experience including recordings of all Briefings and Sponsored Sessions, available May 18. See the Conference Highlights below for more details.

With the rollout of 5G in Kenya, cyber criminals have got a new turf to exploit. As a country that’s adept at digital financial services, hacking attacks on its financial systems surged to 444 million by June 2022. Even the National Kenya Computer Incident Response Team Coordination Center (KE-CIRT/CC) detected 143,040,599 cyber threat events during July to September 2021 which was a 268.883% increase from the 38,776,699 threat events detected in the previous period, April – June 2021. In the quest to mitigate the emerging threat landscape, the Government of Kenya also launched the National Cybersecurity Strategy in 2022 with an objective to bring a more supportive regulatory framework for cybersecurity.

Linux Security Summit (LSS) is a technical forum for collaboration between Linux developers, researchers, and end users with the primary aim of fostering community efforts to analyze and solve Linux security challenges. LSS is where key Linux security community members and maintainers gather to present their work and discuss research with peers, joined by those who wish to keep up with the latest in Linux security development and who would like to provide input to the development process.