Brussels experience week – Global cybersecurity legal and policy frameworks & Tutorial # 2

Following an insightful field trip to Europol on Tuesday with guest lectures from Daniel Drewer, Philipp Almann, and Jan Ellermann of Europol - many thanks to Europol for this collaboration!!! - yesterday our students were presented with a view on global cybersecurity legal and policy frameworks! Multinational corporations are often faced with fragmented, and sometimes conflicting, national or regional data protection and cybersecurity requirements. For this ...

Brussels experience week – Guest Lectures

Here we go with some very special guest lecturers for the last day of the Cybersecurity Week in Brussels!  The first lecture is being held by Dr. Prokopios Drogkaris, Cybersecurity Expert – Policy Development and Implementation at the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA), who is now presenting on “Engineering Data Protection: The case of pseudonymization”. The discussion is already very lively ...

ICTLC Ranked Tier 1 by The Legal 500 (Legalease) EMEA for a second consecutive year

I am very proud that ICT Legal Consulting has been included in Tier 1 of the Data Privacy and Data Protection practice area of The Legal 500 (Legalease) EMEA for a second consecutive year! The publication confirms that we “are among the leading experts in the sector”. It furthermore highlights our expertise, dedication, and our “High professionalism, continuous updating ...

“Advanced Cybersecurity and Global Cybersecurity Strategy” course week 1: ‘Case law’ (decisions of Supervisory Authorities)

It's time for the Cybersecurity Week in Brussels!!! Today we are kicking off the “Advanced Cybersecurity and Global Cybersecurity Strategy” course within the Advanced Master in Privacy, Cybersecurity, Data Management and Leadership LLM at the European Centre on Privacy and Cybersecurity (ECPC)! This week we are at ECPC’s Brussels Campus for the “Brussels experience week – Cybersecurity” where just ...

“EU AND GLOBAL CYBERSECURITY FUNDAMENTALS” COURSE WEEK 4: Malicious software and denial-of-service attacks

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Today our LLM lecture is about malicious software and denial-of-service attacks with Brian Honan! As you may already be aware, malicious software (malware) is one of the most significant categories of threats to computer systems! According to ENISA’s 2021 Threat Landscape, “Malware developers keep finding ways to make reverse engineering and dynamic analysis harder” and “Malware targeting container environments have become much more ...

Today is Tutorial time! Tutorial 1: “The concept of cybersecurity and an introduction to cryptographic tools”

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The students of our EU and Global Cybersecurity Fundamentals course in the ECPC Advanced Master in Privacy, Cybersecurity and Data Management will be confronted with a practical case which will require them to apply their knowledge of the fundamentals of cybersecurity and different types of threats and attacks, and propose measures to deal with them, with a specific focus on encryption. Our EU and ...

Kicking off the “EU and Global Cybersecurity Fundamentals” course: The concept of cybersecurity and an introduction to cryptographic tools

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I am very pleased that today we will start teaching the EU and Global Cybersecurity Fundamentals course within the Advanced Master in Privacy, Cybersecurity and Data Management LLM we created at ECPC. Today we will kick off the course with Brian Honan, who will lecture on the concept of cybersecurity and provide an introduction to cryptographic tools. Having in place a meaningful and robust ...

I am running the TCS Amsterdam Marathon to raise funds for the children with rare diseases / Corro la TCS Amsterdam Marathon per raccogliere fondi per i bambini con malattie rare

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Tomorrow I am running the TCS Amsterdam Marathon to raise funds for  the volunteer organization Fiori di Campo and its Children with Rare Diseases Project. To run a marathon is about fighting against yourself and your weaknesses, it entails testing yourself physically and mentally, pushing forward when you think you can’t go on any longer. It ...

The race to digitalize Africa and the importance of data security by design

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China has affirmed its intention to actively support Africa in the development of its digital infrastructure and connectivity. This was confirmed by Chinese Assistant Foreign Minister Deng Li on 24 August when speaking about the China-Africa Partnership Plan on Digital Innovation at the China-Africa Internet Development and Cooperation Forum. Indeed, China is looking to promote technologies such as ...

The UK’s “data challenge” to the EU

This blog post is a re-elaboration of my interview this morning with Luca Bertuzzi, Digital & Media Editor from EurActiv, available here. Today the UK unveiled its “post-Brexit global data plans to boost growth, increase trade and improve healthcare”, which also include a multi-billion pound partnership with the US, Australia and the Republic of Korea.  Secretary of State ...