With its focus on AI, last year’s Swiss Cyber Storm clearly struck a chord. And in 2024, neither the development nor our commitment to the topic has stopped. This year, we want to go deeper and involve you, our audience, more in this discourse: Enter the Swiss Cyber Storm AI Village.

Prepare for an amazing keynote at our anniversary Swiss Cyber Storm conference on October 24! We are very happy to announce that Eva Galperin, a renowned advocate for privacy rights and a leading voice in the battle against big tech, will be starting our conference. As Director of Cybersecurity at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Eva brings years of experience defending our privacy and an intriguing focus on fighting stalkerware. Her talk offers a fresh perspective on the security industry and what’s at stake these days.

The conference program for Swiss Cyber Storm 2023 is now online – albeit with some spaces to fill in. The schedule will be completed in the next few weeks. Stay tuned for the announcement of more amazing talks on hot cybersecurity topics by selected international experts.

This year, Swiss Cyber Storm celebrate its anniversary: On October 24 in the Kursaal Bern, the tenth edition of the Swiss Cyber Storm conference will take place since the founding of the independent supporting association. The first conference of this name was held in Rapperswil back in 2010, but at that time still under the umbrella of Compass Security.

The numbers of viewers on our nutshell format continue to amaze us. When we did our first Swiss Cyber Storm in a Nutshell double-interview in October 2020, the success was immediately visible. It felt like we had hit a niche here and the extended interviews on cyber security topics with a decidedly Swiss perspective addressed an obvious interest.

We ran last year’s Swiss Cyber Storm under the motto “Embracing the Hackers”. One of the topics we covered was Bug Bounty Programs. A BBP is often seen as a standard element of a comprehensive application security program. But they are also mostly unheard of in Switzerland.

This is a contributed guest post by Florian Badertscher from Swisscom’s bug bounty program. We are publishing it here on the Cyber Storm blog because it brings information valuable to companies planning a bug bounty program of their own.

Swiss Cyber Storm 2019 will run under the motto “Embracing the Hackers”. We have presented and explained this overall theme for our conference in a separate blog post in Spring. Now it is time to present you our lineup for our conference on October 15. This is the 2nd of two blog posts about our speakers. The first one is here.

Swiss Cyber Storm 2019 will run under the motto “Embracing the Hackers”. We have presented and explained this overall theme for our conference in a separate blog post in Spring. Now it is time to present you our lineup for our conference on October 15. This is the first of two blog posts about our speakers.