2025-06-19 –, Classroom 4 - CLUSIL track
The talk will focus on AI and cybersecurity.
Currently used by hackers for deep fakes, will it evolve into AI specialised in network attacks?
Will there be AI on the defence side?
Will we see a battle between the best AI (attack versus defence)?
What protection mechanisms could prevent hackers from using AI or compromising AI?
Are we in a dangerous transition phase where AI does not yet have sufficiently robust ethical mechanisms that cannot be circumvented?
These points will be addressed from a general, non-technical perspective.
The rise of generative AI, based primarily on neural networks, has completely boosted the hype surrounding AI, which has become indispensable in today's digital landscape.
In the field of cybersecurity, it is possible to ask how AI can be used by hackers but also serve as a defence mechanism.
This is a game that hackers currently tend to win because they have a head start, but in the future, will we see AI challenged by other AI in terms of attacks and countermeasures?
This raises many questions, both in terms of ethics or the lack thereof within AI, as well as the limits of circumventing the ethical filter applied to AI, but also the ability of hackers to use specialised and proprietary AI.
There will also remain the question of the energy required to power these AI systems. Will it be accessible to all, including hackers?
Prior to founding Hagen Advisory , David Hagen gained 20 years of experience with the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (the Luxembourg's Financial Sector Regulator) as responsible for:
- the supervision of the information systems of the supervised entities
- the supervision of the Support PFS
He was also responsible for the CSSF's IT for 6 years.
In parallel to these activities, he has been teaching at the University of Luxembourg within the Master in Information Systems Security Management for 17 years.
He is a member of the Electronic Signature Committee of the Ministry of Economy (Ministerial Arrest of 17 December 2013).
Co-author of the following academic publications:
CLOUD PROVIDERS VIABILITY: HOW TO ADDRESS IT FROM AN IT AND LEGAL PERSPECTIVE? (Cesare Bartolini, Donia El Kateb, Yves Le Traon, David Hagen (2015))
OPERATIONAL RISK MANAGEMENT IN FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS: PROCESS ASSESSMENT IN CONCORDANCE WITH BASEL II (C. Bernard, D. Hagen, P.Maar, D. Reinard, B. Di Renzo, M. Hillairet, M. Picard, A. Rifaut, (2005))
Lifetime Career" award from ITOne, received in 2017 from the Luxembourg ICT community in recognition of its commitment to the national IT sector.
He is a regular speaker at conferences and round tables organised by the ABBL , ALFI , ALRiM , ALCO , ISACA Luxembourg Chapter , IIA , etc.