Sponsors Full - Narrated by Jess

hi y'all thank you for joining besides athens 2021 i am jessica russo and i would like to present to you the sponsors who have made besides athens possible all these years let's start with 12 sec with a platinum sponsor this year this is the sixth time that they are supporting us and we are grateful to have them on board since the very first besides athens founded in 2012 in athens by a group of cyber security enthusiasts 12 sec provides quality information security services worldwide specializing in information security assurance security management and infosec training services in a short period of time 12sec has partnered up with several forbes global 2000 companies government agencies and intergovernmental organizations

worldwide securing their data from cyber threats proving in the process that the company motto our work will do our marketing for us actually works 12 sec has provided its expertise in various sectors including finance telecoms retail security shipping government and last but not least law enforcement our second platinum sponsor is netitude which is supporting us for the first time and we couldn't be more thrilled to have them on board netitude is a global pen testing red and blue teaming provider netitude is a global pen testing red and blue teaming provider netitude's consultants work with the world's largest central banks stock exchanges governments and more to compromise critical national infrastructure before real trade actors do custom-built tooling and exploits are

created by an attitude's search and development team to achieve maximum compromise meanwhile netitude's blue team defend important networks around the world all day every day the red and blue teams are supported by a dedicated threat intelligence team to ensure that they can both perform and defend against the latest tactics techniques and procedures used by real-world threat actors natives just open their offices and are in athens and are currently looking to expand their pen testing team whether you are a graduate or a seasoned pen tester feel free to reach out to them for an informal chat passing on to our gold sponsors we are excited to present encode who is supporting us for the second time

it's great to have you on board again encode specializes on targeted cyber threats and stands out with its proprietary technology expertise on cyber security and multi-year experience across vertical industries coupled with an ongoing innovative security research and its highly qualified and talented people with global operations and local expertise encode combines its cutting edge technology with best of breed cyber security operations and services to augment its clients cyber security capabilities for continuous and effective management of advanced cyber threats encode has implemented more than 1800 projects and its portfolio exists 200 clients globally encode has been recognized as one of the five pure play mssps in europe by forester and market leader in detection and prevention and in incident response and forensics

elastic is a gold sponsor as well and we are excited to have their support for the second time in a row it's always great news to have international organizations of scale supporting our efforts elastic is a search company built on a free and open heritage everyone can get started with elastic products and solutions quickly and frictionlessly elastic offers three solutions for enterprise search observability and security built on one technology stack that can be deployed anywhere from finding documents to monitoring infrastructure to hunting for threads elastic makes data usable in real time and at scale founded in 2012 elastic is a distributed company with elasticians around the globe learn more at elastic.com bitcrack comes next which has stepped up

to become a silver sponsor and we are grateful for the support for the fifth time big crack cyber security is a provider of bespoke security solutions and services to all industries the highly skilled staff range from hackers to security architects governance and training experts and security operations center analysts their mission is to help companies secure themselves and defend against threats while enabling the business here comes algo systems who has been a trusted supporter and very active member of our community for the third time algosystems is a leading solutions provider with an extensive experience and expertise in ict and cyber security the company is driving the path forward to a new cyber security era with numerous skilled and certified

cyber security professionals a state-of-the-art security operations center multiple partnerships with leading international vendors and an all-inclusive cyber portfolio you can learn more about algo systems on their website which is www.algosystems.cr log sale is a new member of the besides athens community and we are excited that they have reached out to us to get engaged with our speakers and our sponsors logsdale is an international community that turns raw data into actionable insights with its next generation cloud platform supporting analysis monitoring troubleshooting incident response and security operations the company has offices in athens brussels and nicosia in cyprus and provides also i.t operational and security consulting services to any private or public organization such as red teaming incident response

penetration testing vulnerability management securing their digital transformation future with extensive experience and expertise in the marine time governmental financial and technology sector logsdale team has accomplished high-level security projects and significant partnerships worldwide adopting an effective research and development approach is of utmost importance and priority and the ultimate goal is to stay always ahead of the evolving cyber threat landscape moving on to our bronze sponsors we'd like to thank them for their continued support starting with yes we hack we are excited to have on board for the second time an international back bounty organization yes we hack is a global back bounty and vdp platform founded in 2015 yes we hack was created by hackers for hackers

they are committed to provide quality programs for our community and they are working very hard to be the best and fairest back boundary platform out there yes we hack is not just a backbone platform they also provide community tools and services to ease and promote responsible vulnerability disclosure a non-partisan back bounty and vdp search engine called firebounty.com a hiker playground where anyone can create challenges called dojo and many more on github marimezo comes next and it's it is joining us for one more time and we are grateful for their continued support many mezzo provide led instructor-led security training to both industry and individuals in the fields of iot and media systems forensics and design as well as pen

testing reverse engineering forensics and security engineering all courses are expert instructor and mentor-led with small sizes to ensure all candidates receive the level of one-to-one teaching that they require unicef college is joining besides athens for the first time so welcome aboard knowledge innovation evolution by these three words unicef college chooses to describe itself the new educational institution which aims at promoting education one step further with strategic partnerships and a creative spirit it is introducing a new culture in education based on the synergy between academic knowledge practical application and individual skills the unicef college team consists of recognized academics successful professionals and executives in education and the market with deep knowledge of their subjects for them in the unicef college master

yourself is more than a motto it's a way of setting new rules and redefining what success an evolution is unicef college belongs to the group the largest purely greek an internationally recognized certification body for individuals and management systems with activities in greece and cyprus unicef college currently offers in collaboration with stratfor city university the following master degrees mastering computer science and cybersecurity mastering computer science software engineering and mastering digital marketing management please keep an eye out on how to get your cpe certificate as if you are eligible for it unicef will sponsor 30 percent of your tuition fees for a cybersecurity master degrees at uniseart and here comes our community supporters it wouldn't be a security besides athens if it

wasn't for our community supporters cheers to the other besides events that have endorsed us including besides london amsterdam manchester dublin and to all the universities and organizations in greece and abroad as well as nisa and owasp next one on the list that deserves special thanks is our ctf partner which is hack the box we are very excited to have a long-standing partnership with hack the box offering trainings and ctf challenges tailored to the security besides athens community we are always very excited to have awasp the open web application security project a special thank you to owasp london's up there for the support we have one more special mention and this is for anissa it is an honor to

have anissa the european union cyber security agency supporting security besides athens as one of its key mission objectives is raising awareness to european union citizens on cybersecurity matters a special mention and a big thank you to anissa for their support through the years and for believing and boosting the information security community in greece and beyond once more many thank you to all of our sponsors for making besides athens possible this year and all the years before we greatly appreciate your sustained support and to all of the new community members out there if your organization is considering to initiate a collaboration with us please do not hesitate to reach out to our team to discuss how to become a sponsor or

supporter thank you very much for listening to me and i hope you enjoy the conference today