More than 850 registered IT professionals from all over Europe for a fully digital and successful event!

The Luxembourg Internet Days – the yearly ICT event from the sector, for the sector - was back in digital format from November 16 to 18, with a rich and cutting-edge programme to talk about Network Security and Cloud Security.

No less than three Luxembourg ministers -Prime Minister Xavier BETTEL, its Minister Delegate for Digitalisation Marc HANSEN, the Minister of the Economy Franz FAYOT- presented their approach and understanding and projects for cyber security and digital sovereignty.

Europe gladly associated itself once again with this edition with the remarkable presence of European Commissioner Mariya GABRIEL. In charge of topics related to disinformation and various online threats, Commissioner Gabriel pointed out the importance of efforts related to disruptive research and innovation for Europe’s digital sovereignty.

Between expert presentations, workshops, round tables, all now available on replay from the event website, a virtual expo (with 40 booths) and the free to access networking platform allowed all participants to keep up to speed to last developments and discuss.

 

On Day 1, Europe’s sovereignty with European Cloud, Europe based technologies or EuroHPC (European High-Performance Computing) was put into perspective with speakers with very different views from the Gaia-X project, Euclidia, ANEC, Thales or even Google and Huawei. An animated interactive roundtable tried to provide answers to the question “how Europe can drive innovation in Cloud policy and Cloud business models to gain in Sovereignty?”
 

On Day 2, the latest advancements in the Network security, Cyber range and data access to, or in, the Clouds were highlighted. Key players from the security sector and even the Luxembourg Defence set the tone for this very pragmatic and informative day. There was the question of the ZeroTrust strategy, Confidential Computing, or Cyber Range with experts from Cloudflare, Microsoft, Radware, Keysight Technologies, CybExer, or even IDQuantique and CryptoNext Security. The IoT was not outdone, thanks to the European VARIoT project presented by CIRCL. The audience had the exceptional opportunity to listen to Supervisory Special Agent Michael Sohn from the FBI on how to combat Cyber threat through partnerships.
 

Finally, the third day was dedicated to specific challenges in the banking and insurance sectors, with the adoption of the Cloud and the resulting strategies. This thorny subject was under the spotlight on with speakers from all sides such as Madame JOUR-SCHROEDER, Deputy Director General of Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union, Julian SCHÜCKER from the EBF, but also the CSSF. The three major international Cloud providers Amazon, Google and Microsoft joined forces for the occasion to deliver their visions Clearstream shared its experiences and provided insight into the conditions for successful Cloud adoption whilst Atlas Intelligence gave insights from an ethical hacker.

Once again, the LUNOG4 conference was an integral part of the Luxembourg Internet Days 2021 programme, on November 17. The RPKI and DNS subjects, respectively DNSSEC and Anycast, were explained in detail for an informed public. Experts also explained how to protect domain names and websites against the risks of hijacking.
 

More information & full programme are available to all on replay at: https://www.luxembourg-internet-days.com.