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Security threat from the skies
Martin Broomhead AFC MRAeS, UK managing director of multinational drone security company D-Fend Solutions, gave an exclusive interview to Cyber Intelligence from the showground floor in London’s Olympia conference centre. He outlines the increasingly blurred line between physical security and cybersecurity, the main theme of this year’s International Cyber Expo, which combined with this year’s International Security Expo on the Olympia showground.
InfoSecurity Europe 2024 – Was It All Worth It?
As the stands were being packed away on the show floor at the end of the InfoSecurity Europe 2024 conference in London this week (June 4-6), it was time for exhibitors and attendees to take stock of the three-day event. The mood among exhibitors as they packed everything away in cardboard boxes was distinctly upbeat compared to last year’s event, which was still overshadowed by two long years of lockdown. “It was great to be among people two years post-pandemic and to be able to see the whites of their eyes and the smiles on their faces. In an industry as serious as cybersecurity, it is also important to have face-to-face moments of levity and bonhomie,” said Matt Butterworth, senior account manager at data erasure specialist Blancco Technologies. Neal Smyth, of managed cloud and cybersecurity company Ekco, commented: “Our presentation was oversubscribed with standing-room only. As well as generating leads, we had more customers coming to the stand this year. For example, a representative of a government department simply turned up and asked us to tender. I also hear that other exhibitors were seeing more potential customers attending InfoSecurity this year.”
Deepfakes dominate InfoSecurity Europe 2024
InfoSecurity Europe, widely acknowledged as the chief global challenger to RSA in the US, kicked off with a Keynote speech and panel discussion on “Mapping the Deepfake Landscape.” Broadcaster and researcher Henry Adjer quoted numerous examples of the increasing sophistication of malicious deepfakes. The most interesting example of a deepfake was a false image purporting to show an explosion near the Pentagon shared by multiple verified Twitter accounts last year, resulting in a brief dip in the value of the New York Stock Exchange. “Threat actors are starting to explore the possibility of using deepfakes to move share prices with fake podcasts and video interviews with company C-suite executives of listed companies. Even if the fake is quickly spotted and squashed and the company’s shares are only impacted for 10 minutes, the threat actor can make a huge profit by speculating on the movement of a specific stock,” says Tim Grieveson, senior vice president of global cyber risk at cybersecurity firm BitSight, which in 2021 received £250 million funding from financial services giant Moody’s.