Experienced IT, special & fraud investigations auditor with more than seven years of working experience : IT infrastructure, IT audits and fraud investigation skills, IT Security with a continuous self-improvement approach.

Madalin founded Cyber Smart Defence more than 10 years ago in response to the growing cybersecurity risks businesses were facing.

A cybersecurity pioneer, who founded his first business aged just 16, Madalin grew Cyber Smart Defence to become one of Romania’s fastest growing cybersecurity companies. Madalin is also a respected commentator on cybersecurity issues and has previously been interviewed by the likes of NBC, Fox, ABC, Reuters and USA Today.

Shayne leads Engineering at Extenda Retail, with more than 20 years' experience managing technical teams in software development and operations. He has a passion for developer enablement and building a strong engineering culture. Shayne and his teams focus on building reliable, high-performing and highly secure products that meet the demands of the consumer.

As the Chief Information Security Officer of Siemens Digital Industries, Achim is responsible for:

• Cybersecurity
• Disaster recovery and business continuity management
• Identity and access management
• Information risk management
• Information security and information assurance
• Information technology controls for financial and other systems
• IT investigations, digital forensics
  Security Architecture.

I am passionate about technology and security, having 15+ years of international IT and security related work history and strong technical and process related expertise; this all including 10+ years of experience in the financial industry in various IT audit, IT risk and IT security functions, as subject matter expert, advisor, coach and manager. I'm flexible, open for new challenges and experiences, with passion for IT security, IT governance, process optimisation and operational excellence as - in my belief - the greatest business enabler. My professional interests include - among others - new trends in technology as well as latest security and risk developments. Next to my current professional activities, I'm also involved in vulnerability research and hardware/software development.

I finished my studies at the Royal Military Academy, as a civil engineer telecommunications (Polytechnical division).

After some years in pure IT (PABX, LAN, WAN, Project management,...) at different levels, both in hardware and software, i decided to make the move towards Information Security and have been specializing in it the last decade. I worked in security both as consultant and as employee, and always loved to work in a team and still do.

I worked in different industries: military, utilities, staffing, banking, manufacturing and retail.

Special skills: people management, passion for ICT and security, completed with technical insights, userfriendly and business oriented approach, knowledge of the ICT markets on infrastructure and security, stress resistant, pragmatic, ....

My slogan is 'WYSIWYG', no nonsense and very pragmatic.

Andrei joined Cyber Smart Defence almost seven years ago. Passionate about cybersecurity, he’s broadened his expertise and oversees the delivery of a wide range of IT security services, including audits, training, incident management and stress testing.

Razvan has been heavily involved in the cybersecurity community for the last six years. With a keen interest in the latest developments in the field, including new attack vectors and exploits, Razvan is continually building on his extensive knowledge and learning from hackers, ransomware groups, botnets and APTs.