The Luxembourg Internet Days event is set to return on Tuesday 19 and Wednesday 20 October 2024, hosted at the Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce (Kirchberg).
As reported by the organisers, LU-CIX ASBL, all the elements will come together once again to encourage discussions and meetings between professionals of the Internet, cybersecurity and resilience, from all sectors.
Over the course of two days, the event will combine conferences, roundtables and interactive workshops, as well as an exhibition bringing together 45 exhibitors.
More than 1,100 visitors, seasoned professionals (ICT, IT, OT), business or administrative decisionmakers and elected officials and municipal agents are expected to discuss questions of connectivity, Internet and network security, and ICT issues in general, to learn about trends in cyber-attacks and vulnerability exploitation and explore protection solutions together with the topic of their resilience. Two panel discussions dedicated to the NIS2 Directive (EU cybersecurity legislation) will bring together experts and users to propose pragmatic "roadmaps" for the implementation of their compliance.
LU-CIX ASBL added that the event will be an opportunity to discover protection and resilience solutions, to strengthen proactive defence strategies and to consolidate the knowledge and skills of professionals working in critical infrastructures as well as in structures of all types and sizes.
On the new "Gemengen Dag", on 20 November, the municipal sector will receive special attention during a dedicated parallel event. Elected officials, IT professionals, heads of technical and IT services, advisors and other personnel from municipalities and municipal unions will be invited to participate in interactive presentations on practical and concrete solutions with testimonies from municipal agents for their IT management, their IT security and their obligation to comply with the NIS2 Directive. This day will take place in French and Luxembourgish.
This year's event also puts Romania in the spotlight. The 2024 partner country was chosen for its "dynamism" and "proactivity", and various actors, experts and personalities are set to travel to Luxembourg for the occasion. The Romanian Ambassador to Luxembourg, Livia Rusu, will be accompanied by Dan Cîmpean, Director of the National Directorate of Cybersecurity of Romania, and Luca Tagliaretti, Director of the European Cybersecurity Competence Center (ECCC).
Connectivity, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and IT resilience will be the major themes of Luxembourg Internet Days 2024. Particular attention will also be paid to compliance with the NIS2 Directive, to help professional users of Internet-related technologies protect themselves against the risks linked to the occurrence of attacks, and to facilitate the continuity of activity.
"Because no company or municipality is immune from the maliciousness of cybercriminals, it is essential for all professionals to pay particular attention to the challenges linked to their use of ever more connected solutions. This considerably increases security challenges," stated Frédérique Ulrich, the organiser of the event and Director of LU-CIX ASBL. "The Luxembourg Internet Days event is a privileged moment for exchanges between professionals from all sectors on the security and resilience issues that arise but also, and above all, on the solutions at their disposal."
For more about the eleventh edition of Luxembourg Internet Days and to register for free, visit https://www.luxembourg-internet-days.com/.
