2025-11-17 –, Westin - Munich
The Dark Web is a scary place. In order to deter the cybercrime, I feel confident exploring its dangerous grounds and know well how to use the Dark Web to defend the victims. I want to invite you on this journey of venturing far beyond your defense perimeter, where cyber criminals are just planning their attacks, and teach you how you can use this knowledge as defensive skills to prevent attacks from happening in the first place.
What do you need to know before going on the Dark Web? Preparation for the journey is not only technical skills but understanding of the Dark Web dynamics, linguistics, and social engineering.
Filled with practical examples of real-time exploitation of the threat actors on the Dark Web, we define a problem and start our journey.
As we travel along, we will identify meta-types of threat actors and actresses which we might encounter, discussing each type skills and threat types. How to approach each one of them without giving yourself away. What are possible gains and pitfalls?
Finally, the lessons – know your enemy. Know your enemy's weapons. Stop the threat actor = stop the crime.
Threat Intelligence, CTI, Dark Web
Alex Holden is the founder and CISO of Hold Security, LLC. Under his leadership, Hold Security played a pivotal role in information security and threat intelligence, becoming one of the most recognizable names in its field. Mr. Holden researches minds and techniques of cyber criminals and helps our society to build better defenses against cyber-attacks.