Security Technologies and Methods for Advanced Cyber Threat Intelligence, Detection and Mitigation

Dr. Gohar Sargsyan is a Director at CGI Inc. with a role of ICT Innovation and Partnership collaboration lead. Last years she was focusing on the Security domain covering Cyber Security, Space Security, Border Security, Digital Policing, Public Safety, Security and Privacy and Security, Security in Digital Twins, Financial Crime and Fraud Detection, Blockchain and Sustainable Finance.She has successful track record in different industries and has extensive experience in Strategic Advisory, stakeholder management and business/IT alignment. Started from 2002 she is an appointed EU expert for the European Commission (EC) IT Innovation Programmes where she assesses new digital and technological solutions for all industries offered by EU and international consortia. She partners with leading business and science organisations in selected EU programmes for creation, implementation and delivery of complex platforms and services, among them Cyber-Trust, where she was the exploitation and innovation leader. She is a stakeholder member on EU panels and high level think tanks on Future Internet, IPv6, EU Cybersecurity, Open Innovation 2.0, EU Green Deal and Europe Digital among others. She is a founding member of Open Innovation Strategy and Policy Group under support of EC DG CONNECT since 2009 and Innovation Luminary Academy and Awards since 2013.Dr. Sargsyan holds MS (Master of Science) of Applied Mathematics at Yerevan State University with Master Thesis on Cryptography, MS CIS (Master and Silences Degree of Computer and Information Sciences) and MBA at UCLA, then she also accomplished her PhD on Informatics and Automation Problems Optimization and Mathematical Modeling with a project of Video Conferencing for Poor Internet Bandwidth. She achieved a number of qualification certificates on Security, Data, Business and Sustainability Leadership. She is an inventor with IP ownership. She is a regular (keynote) speaker and chairwoman of international events and sessions. To name a few, she is a steering committee member of IEEE CSR, IEEE SecSoft, Open Innovation 2.0, World Smart Capital initiative. She publishes regularly in international prominent business and scientific venues, so far being an (co)author and co(editor) of more than 80 publications including books.


Mr. Dimitrios Kavallieros co-supervises the cybersecurity research team of the MultiMoDal Data Fusion and Analytics Group (M4D) of the Multimedia Knowledge and Social Media Analytics Laboratory (MKLab) which is part of the Informatics and Telematics Institute (ITI) of the Center of Research and Technology, Hellas (CERTH, Greece). He is also a senior research associate at M4D focusing on cybersecurity research and innovation technologies.Prior to this role, he was a programme coordinator and a research associate at the Center for Security Studies - KEMEA of the Hellenic Ministry of Citizen Protection. He holds an MSc in Ethical Hacking and Computer Security from the University of Abertay. He is currently PhD candidate at University of Peloponnese. He has co-edited a book on technologies strengthening security (Technology Development for Security Practitioners) and he has more than 25 articles in conference proceedings, journals and book chapters covering mainly cybersecurity, cyberterrorism and digital forensics topics.Mr. Kavallieros has participated in several European and National funded research projects assuming different roles such as senior researcher, coordinator, project manager, technical manager, scientific leader and mainly focused on Cybersecurity, Cybercrime and Cyberterrorism, IoT & Cloud Security/Forensics, Digital Forensics and Blockchain technology topics. He is an invited expert to different selected stakeholders' groups and initiatives and a speaker in cybersecurity events to share his experience in all the security programmes, testbeds, results and way ahead towards better and more secure world. He was the project coordinator of the EU H2020-project Cyber-Trust on IoT cybersecurity and of the EU H2020-project FORESIGHT on cybersecurity preparedness, cyber range and simulation and the innovation manager of the EU H2020-project PROPHETS on human factors and new methods to prevent, investigate and mitigate cybercriminal behaviors. In addition, he was the project manager of several H2020 projects in KEMEA, including but not limited to AIDA, LOCARD and SPARTA. Now in CERTH he is a member of the Scientific and Technical management team of SECANT and CTC projects.


Dr. Nicholas E. Kolokotronis is an Associate Professor and the Head of the Cryptography and Security Group at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of the Peloponnese. He received his B.Sc. in mathematics from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1995, an M.Sc. in highly efficient algorithms (highest honors) in 1998 and a Ph.D. in cryptography in 2003, both from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Since 2004, he has held visiting positions at the University of Piraeus, University of the Peloponnese, the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, and the Open University of Cyprus.During 2002-2004, he was with the European Dynamics S.A., Greece, as a security consultant. He has been a member of working groups for the provisioning of professional cyber-security training to large organizations, including the Hellenic Telecommunications and Posts Commission (EETT). Dr. Kolokotronis has published more than 100 papers in international scientific journals, conferences, and books and has participated in more than 25 EU-funded and national research and innovation projects. In Cyber-Trust, he was the technical coordinator. He has been a co-chair of conferences (IEEE CSR 2021, 2022), workshops (IEEE SecSoft 2019, IEEE CSRIoT 2019, 2020, and ACM EPESec 2020), and special sessions focusing on IoT security. Moreover, he has been a TPC member in many international conferences, incl.IEEE ISIT, IEEE GLOBECOM, IEEE ICC, ARES, and ISC. He is currently a Guest Editor in "Engineering - cyber security, digital forensics and resilience" area of Springer's Applied Sciences Journal (since 2019) and in the Reviewer Board of MDPI's Cryptography journal (since 2020), whereas he has been an Associate Editor of the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking (2009-17) and a regular reviewer for a number of prestigious journals, incl. IEEE TIFS, IEEE TIT, Springer's DCC, etc. His research interests span the broad areas of cryptography, security, and coding theory.