Mikko Hyppönen - Global Cybersecurity Expert & Cybersecurity Person of the Year (2020)

Mikko Hyppönen, Chief Research Officer at F-Secure, is a worldwide authority on computer security and privacy issues. Hyppönen was listed as one of the 50 Most Important People on the Web by the PC World magazine and named as "Cybersecurity Person of the Year 2020" by CISO Mag.

Tagged as a "Code Warrior" by Vanity Fair, Hyppönen is a go-to expert on cybercrime for international news media. In 2013, Reader's Digest listed Hyppönen as one of the "8 Europeans who make a difference" together with Adele and Felix Baumgartner. Later in the same year he was inducted to the Infosecurity Europe Hall of Fame.

Hyppönen has been working with computer security for over 25 years and has fought the biggest malware outbreaks in the net. As a result, he has been involved in catching several online criminals, assisting law enforcement in the USA, Europe and Asia on cybercrime cases. He tracked down the authors of the very first PC virus. 

Matt Jones - Chief Executive Officer, Blancco

Matt has broad experience with both private equity backed and public companies. Specializing in the technology sector, Matt is a recognized leader with a successful track record of developing and overseeing the execution of growth strategies for companies in security, storage and communications.

Matt was most recently CEO of E8 Security, a pioneer in behavioural intelligence and cybersecurity based in the USA. Prior to joining E8 Security, Matt held positions at InterAct, a leading cloud-based software provider for public safety (where he was Executive Chairman), CloudShield Technologies, a provider of cybersecurity solutions (where he was CEO), and Allocity, a software company concentrating on storage management. Matt led the transformation and growth at both E8 Security and CloudShield into leading cybersecurity software companies focused on the enterprise market, increasing revenue, building out teams to scale and successfully leading global market expansion. He was instrumental in the sale of CloudShield to SAIC and Allocity to EMC. Matt has also held senior executive roles at Excite@Home, Sprint and AT&T.

Kim Väisänen - Growth Partner, Evli

Kim Väisänen successfully built the world’s leading data erasure software company Blancco. During his Blancco career the company captured a market leader’s position in all its major markets.

Mr. Väisänen has received over a dozen recognitions, awards and prizes from public and private organizations. These endorsements include the title of ‘Entrepreneur of The Year’ by Ernst & Young, the ‘Company of the Year’ nomination by Kauppalehti, OP-Pohjola and KPMG, and the ‘ICT Company of the Year’ award by Tietoviikko.

Mr. Väisänen is a well-recognized columnist and blogger for several newspapers, IT magazines and online publications in Finland. Currently he contributes to half a dozen publications and does public speaking on a regular basis. Mr. Väisänen shares his spare time between family, some sports activities and social thinking.

Fredrik Forslund - VP Cloud and Enterprise, Blancco

Fredrik Forslund serves as Vice President, Enterprise & Cloud Erasure Solutions for Blancco. He’s also the Director of the International Data Sanitization Consortium (IDSC), where he leads the organization in its mission to educate organizations and standards bodies about the permanent eradication of data, clarifying industry terminology and guidelines to ensure compliance with data security, protection and privacy laws.

With a keen eye for streamlining corporate IT security efficiencies and maintaining compliance with data privacy legislation, Forslund is often regarded as a trusted advisor among customers. Forslund understands the operational, financial and cultural nuances of driving global business growth.

When he’s not guiding customers through data erasure, or working with Blancco’s internal teams, he can be found speaking at industry conferences.

Matt Jones, Chief Executive Officer, Blancco

Matt has broad experience with both private equity backed and public companies. Specializing in the technology sector, Matt is a recognized leader with a successful track record of developing and overseeing the execution of growth strategies for companies in security, storage and communications.

Matt was most recently CEO of E8 Security, a pioneer in behavioural intelligence and cybersecurity based in the USA. Prior to joining E8 Security, Matt held positions at InterAct, a leading cloud-based software provider for public safety (where he was Executive Chairman), CloudShield Technologies, a provider of cybersecurity solutions (where he was CEO), and Allocity, a software company concentrating on storage management. Matt led the transformation and growth at both E8 Security and CloudShield into leading cybersecurity software companies focused on the enterprise market, increasing revenue, building out teams to scale and successfully leading global market expansion. He was instrumental in the sale of CloudShield to SAIC and Allocity to EMC. Matt has also held senior executive roles at Excite@Home, Sprint and AT&T.

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June 01, 2018 | White Papers

EU GDPR: Responsibilities of the Data Protection Officer

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Webinar

[On-Demand] Overcoming the Unseen Data Destruction Issues...

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April 27, 2017  |  eBooks

Safely Destroying Dark & Unstructured Data

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