This is a brief report from the convention Cyber Risks Switzerland 2014 (Tagung Cyber Risiken Schweiz), Berne November 20, 2014. The conference, organised by ISB/MELANI, was meant to give some insight into the implementation of the various tasks formulated in the National Cyber Strategy (NCS). Meeting and networking between all sorts of players in the […]
Roberto Perdisci is an expert on botnets and malware infections at the University of Georgia. He came to Switzerland to present his Amico Open Source Software at Swiss Cyberstorm 2014 and I (Christian Folini here) had the pleasure to host a workshop with him and several malware specialists from MELANI, the Federal Swiss Reporting and […]
The Swiss OWASP chapter invited me to talk about Advanced ModSecurity in Zurich on November 12, 2014. The audience of 40 people exceeded my expectations by far and I was not sure I could meet their expectations. Here is a brief summary of the topics I covered: Blocking Mode: Always start in blocking mode. Assign […]
Vor zwei Jahren hat das Bundesamt für Bevölkerungsschutz (BABS) eine Kampagne mit Workshops zu einzelnen für die Schweiz relevanten Gefährdungen durchgeführt. Erstmals wurde damals ein Cyber-Szenario aus Sicht des Bevölkerungsschutzes besprochen. Ich habe an diesem Workshop teilgenommen und vor zwei Jahren hier darüber berichtet. Das besprochene DDoS-Szenario wurde damals im Laufe des Workshops umformuliert und […]
