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.

Switzerland has become a hotspot for security startups. Our program chair Christian Folini discusses this with his guests cryptographer Jean-Philippe Aumasson (@veorq), co-founder and Chief Security Officer of Taurus, and Jonas Wagner (@_jwagner), co-founder and Chief Technical Officer of Threatray.

A few weeks ago, we ran our third SCS in a nutshell online interview with Lt. Gen. Thomas Süssli, Chief of the Swiss Armed Forces, and Dr. Myriam Dunn Cavelty from the ETH Center for Strategic Studies.

Two weeks ago we ran our second SCS in a nutshell online interview, that we also published as a podcast under this name. This blog posts brings you a few strong take-aways and further down below the complete transcript of the interview.

Your host Christian Folini has invited Tobias Ospelt, founder of Swiss penetration testing company Pentagrid, and the successful freelance bug bounty hunter Raphäel Arrouas, also known as Xel among his peers.

Back in June, we cancelled the on-site Swiss Cyber Storm 2020 conference. We also ruled out a day-long virtual happening, but we said we were looking into a brief online presentation or some fun online form.