Bio
Alessandro Guarino is a senior Information Security professional, founder and CEO of StAG, a consultancy firm in France offering cybersecurity, privacy, and data protection services to both private and public sectors. He is an expert in digital forensics, an ISO contributor, Italy’s representative in cybersecurity committees, and president of the International Work Group for Autonomous Intelligence Cyber-defence Agents, with active involvement in Horizon EU Research and Innovation programs and a wide range of speaking engagements at international conferences on topics like cyber conflict, data protection, and digital investigations.
Topic
In just a few years Cybersecurity has transformed from a niche subject to the mainstream. The pandemic-era reliance on online tools only accelerated the process. Businesses have discovered the need to protect their information and data, legislators are rushing to produce ever new regulations, nation-states play at cyberwarfare, and even casual YouTube users are now daily exposed to VPN ads. But what did this trend do for actual information security on the Internet? Are the security priorities of the different actors aligned? What will cybersecurity look like in another decade? Let us see what the popularization of cybersecurity has brought with it and who is going to gain and lose.
