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Dates announced for 2019 Cyber Security Connect UK
networking and one-on-one interactions with
senior executives from the vendor community.
It was organised by DG Consultants (co-
ordinators of France’s highly prestigious
security event, Les Assises) and the Security
Awareness Special Interest Group (SASIG).
Aurore Domange, Event Director at DG
Consultants, said: “Our aim with creating CSC
UK was to shake up the existing conference
format and deliver a personalised, high-quality
experience for the British CISO community.
The feedback we’ve had from attendees has
demonstrated the value of providing space and
opportunity for meaningful conversations about
real issues that cybersecurity practitioners
really care about.”
ollowing the success of the inaugural event last
year, Cyber Security Connect UK organisers have
confirmed that the 2019 event will take place from
November 13 to 15.
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Cyber Security Connect UK was the first event of its kind
for UK CISOs, bringing together leading figures from
the industry for three days, providing opportunities for
Martin Smith, Founder of SASIG and Chairman of Cyber
Security Connect added: “I was so pleased to see how
everyone threw themselves totally into the spirit of the event,
engaging enthusiastically with each other from the outset.”
Visit https://www.cybersecurityconnectuk.com/ for
more information.
DIGICERT LABS LAUNCHES RESEARCH
AND DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE
igiCert, a leading provider
of TLS/SSL, IoT and PKI
solutions, has announced
the launch of DigiCert Labs, an
initiative dedicated to researching and
developing innovative approaches to
security challenges, in collaboration
with leading university researchers and
industry leaders.
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“DigiCert Labs is focused on working
with the brightest minds to bring to
market innovative approaches for our
customers, partners and prospects,”
said DigiCert CTO Dan Timpson.
“In collaboration with leading researchers
and industry leaders, we plan to gain
data-based insights into solving some of
the most pressing security challenges
related to our core competencies of
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encryption, authentication,
identity and data integrity.”
DigiCert Labs will take two
approaches to advancing
technology innovation in
collaboration with leading
researchers. One is providing
grants to universities to
support research into
specific challenges related
to emerging threats and
also through collaboration
with other enterprise labs.
Guidance will come from
DigiCert’s review of academic and
industry research as well as feedback
from customers. The second approach
involves providing large, anonymised
data-sets to help researchers address
real-world use cases.
“DigiCert Labs will tackle the biggest
challenges of DigiCert customers and
the industry at large to drive innovation
that will benefit companies today, and
well into the future,” said Avesta Hojjati,
Head of DigiCert Labs.
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