InfoGuard Innovation Day with 250 participants

The eighth InfoGuard Innovation Day has successfully established itself in Swiss cyber security circles. Once again, 250 participants attended this year's event. More than 20 partners of the provider presented their latest innovations to make cyber security and cyber defense even more effective and efficient in the future. Long-standing network & security manufacturers such as Tanium, Palo Alto Networks, Juniper, Fortinet, Vectra, Aruba, Extreme Network and many more were on site. In addition to the 60 technical presentations, networking among the participants - network and security managers from a wide range of industries - was not neglected.

2020 in the focus of current security incidents and incident response

As every year, InfoGuard's cyber security experts presented the challenges that companies face. This year, the presentations by the cyber security and defense experts were among the most popular. The team demonstrated that it makes sense for companies to expose themselves to a cyber attack simulation in order to identify possible vulnerabilities at an early stage. It is not uncommon for the weakest link in the security chain to be the human being: this was very clearly demonstrated by a simulated attack on a fictitious company. In addition to a detailed malware analysis of Emotet and attacks on industrial control systems, the Cyber Defence Center experts also presented the elementary key factors in responding to a security incident.

Michael Kurth from InfoGuard then explained how important it is to react quickly to cyberattacks in the case of APT attacks, using current examples on Swiss companies. Ransomware attacks in particular have become increasingly professional and highly targeted in recent years. However, the milestones and stumbling blocks on the way to cloud security were just as much a topic for the security experts as InfoGuard's new research platform VUREX (Vulnerabilities, Research & Exploits).

Of course, the presentations by the network and security partners were also very well received. The broad spectrum of topics ranged from cloud and container security, AI and security operations, and endpoint detection and response (EDR) to threat intelligence, supply chain risk management, compliance, DDoS, and zero trust.

Innovation Day - also a complete success in 2020

As in previous years, the response from participants was more than gratifying. Thomas Meier, CEO of InfoGuard, also draws a positive conclusion: "Every year we are overwhelmed by the success of the Innovation Day, which has now developed into a renowned event in the industry. The biggest success factor is certainly the combination of our own presentations and those of the partners, as well as the opportunity for extensive networking. The positive feedback and high quality motivate us to hold Innovation Day again next year."

Source: InfoGuard