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news 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. F 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. D “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 www.intelligentciso.com | Issue 11 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. 9