Mikko Hyppönen
Mikko Hyppönen is a global security expert, speaker and author. He works as the Chief Research Officer at WithSecure and as the Principal Research Advisor at F-Secure.
Mr. Hyppönen has written on his research for the New York Times, Wired and Scientific American and he appears frequently on international TV. He has lectured at the universities of Stanford, Oxford and Cambridge.
He was selected among the 50 most important people on the web by the PC World magazine and was included in the FP Global 100 Thinkers list.
Mr. Hyppönen sits in the advisory boards of t2 and Safeguard Cyber.
Session
Mikko brings over 35 years of deep, firsthand experience in the ever-evolving computer security landscape. In this talk, he will guide us through the formative stages of the industry - when the first self-replicating malicious code emerged, and security professionals were just beginning to recognize and contain the computer virus threat.
Mikko will examine the transition from isolated virus outbreaks to organized, financially motivated cybercrime rings. He’ll recount his investigations of email-borne exploits, discuss the rise of botnets and distributed denial-of-service attacks, and share lessons learned about the interplay between attacker innovation and defender response.
Finally, Mikko will reflect on the current state of cybersecurity as a mature, multi-billion-dollar ecosystem and how governments entered the picture. He'll finish with some educated guesses about where we will go next.