Cybersecurity Week Luxembourg 2020 Winners Unveiled

The winners of this year's Cybersecurity Week Luxembourg were unveiled at yesterday's cybersecurity trophy ceremony.

Luxembourg's Minister of the Economy, Franz Fayot, opened the trophy ceremony for the 2020 edition of Cybersecurity Week Luxembourg, which was held virtually on Thursday due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This event marked the end of the activities that took place in Luxembourg between 19 and 29 October 2020 as part of the 8th edition of European Cyber ​​Security Month, an awareness campaign organised every October by the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) and the European Commission, in partnership with EU Member States.

Around 20 events took place during Cybersecurity Week Luxembourg 2020, which brought together the main players in the Luxembourg ecosystem, professional associations as well as representatives of industry and banks. Resilience, collaboration and strengthening of the ecosystem were the key words of this edition, marked by the pandemic.

Underlining the opportunities to develop collaboration at the national and European level, Minister Franz Fayot said during his speech: “Cybersecurity is an essential asset for the attractiveness of our local economy and it also represents a important basis for consolidating European sovereignty”. He added that the 4th national cybersecurity strategy, to be published in early 2021, will deliver a good roadmap in this context.

The Economy Minister highlighted the recent establishment, in collaboration with FEDIL, of ISAC (Information Sharing and Analysis Center), a reliable and secure common platform dedicated to sharing and information analysis between manufacturers. He also officially presented the update of the interactive mapping of the Luxembourg cybersecurity ecosystem, available now on the securitymadein.lu site. The national ecosystem has 310 companies, of which nearly 74% work in multidisciplinary activities and 24% are startups. The range of services offered by companies established in Luxembourg cover the full range of 60 categories of solutions to digital incidents.

Ranked 2nd in the world and 1st among EU Member States in the 2019 Cisco "digital readiness" index, the Grand Duchy also ranks 11th in the global cybersecurity index (2018).

The winners of the 2020 edition of Cybersecurity Week Luxembourg were:

- Best Chief Information Security Officer (CISO): Stéphane Bianchin from Banque Raiffeisen
- Best Data Protection Officer (DPO): Eric Bedell from Franklin Templeton
- Most promising young talent: Lëtz Cybersecurity Team
- Best paper Hack.lu: Didier Stevens from NVISO
- Best cybersecurity solution: T.A.K. Client, BUILD38