T1 07 NATO and Cybersecurity Driving Progress Across the Alliance - Niko Pissanidis

Security BSides Athens 2018 (Sat, 23/Jun/2018) NATO and Cybersecurity Driving Progress Across the Alliance - Niko Pissanidis Abstract: In the past, aggressive activity by other states was for soldiers crossing the border, today things aren't as straightforward. Fog isn’t thicker than it is in cyberspace, this is in view of the nature of cyber attacks and the range of actors operate in the cyberspace. How do NATO State members stay ahead of the Curve and how a Cyber Defense Centre of Excellence can help? How do we coherently build synergies between different(Strategic, Law, Technical) perspective of cyber? What NATO consider as a Cyber attack and when article 5 of the treaty should be activated? Where does Greece stand in all that? I will try to answer these questions in a simple understandable way and elaborate a discussion through my presentation with the title "NATO and Cybersecurity: Driving Progress Across the Alliance". Bio: Started as a developer, coding in middleware and front end of a C2 project with ejb, jsp, icefaces, web services, for 10 years. The last 5 years dealing with cybersecurity, conference organizer, secure coding, web penetration testing but never stop learning. Had the privilege for three years 2014-17 to serve as the first Greek Officer in NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (NATO CCD COE), Tallinn (Estonia) at the Technical Branch. On 03 Noe 2015, the Hellenic Republic joined NATO CCD COE as sponsoring nation and the Greek Flag waves in Tallinn. Through my key participation as Green and Red member in major Cyber Defense exercises as Locked Shield and Crossed Swords 2015-17, I have developed and have exploited web targets according to each year's scenario. Besides as technical track manager of IEEE Cyber Conflict(CyCon) conference 2015-17, i organized and moderated several combined(technical - strategy - law and policy) sessions in IEEE CyCon 2015-17 conference with variety of topics (Network Centric Warfare, New Cyber Threats in Aviation, Protection of Weapon Systems, Anonymity-Privacy-Encryption, Internet of Things as an Attack Vector, and Blockchain ‘s approach for Cybersecurity problems), but mostly on future critical defense technologies, that are needed to support military capabilities.