Swiss Websecurity Day 2023

Emilia is a cyber threat intelligence analyst at Quad9 and at SWITCH. She specializes in domain abuse topics, Threat Actors tracking, data analytics and visualization, and cyber fraud. Prior to joining Quad9, she was the Head of Group Intelligence Forum at UBS Group AG.

In her current role at Quad9, she tracks and analyzes the DNS lookups of malicious host names that Quad9 blocks. And at SWITCH, she is responsible for building CTI program for Domain Abuse and looks into malware abusing .ch and .li domains.

Yael Erlich is a jurist at the Federal Office of Communications, OFCOM, and is in charge of the .swiss and .ch domains. She examines legal cases relating to domain names under .swiss and .ch and last year was highly involved in the revision of the Ordinance on Internet Domains, OID.

Roger Knoepfel leads the Vulnerability Management Team of the National Cyber Security Centre NCSC in Switzerland. Roger and his team lead various projects such as the Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure (CVD) or the Bug Bounty Program of the Federal Administration to increase cyber resilience in Switzerland.

Over the last 20 years Roger Knoepfel has been responsible for improving the IT security in various functions in the IT and financial industry as well as for fighting cybercrime and leading forensic investigations in law enforcement.

Swissmedic is the national authorisation and supervisory authority for drugs and medical products. The agency located in Bern ensures that only high-quality, safe and effective medical products are available in Switzerland. Robert Kummer acts as Enforcement Officer within Swissmedic’s Control of Illegal Medicines Unit, where he investigates major cases of violation of the Federal Act on Medicinal Products and Medical Devices. For his daily work, the cooperation with other national authorities is just as important as international exchanges with partner authorities in other countries. In the field of Medicrime (pharmaceutical crime), violations are shifting more and more into the digital world. This is one reason why bits and bytes are also gaining importance at Swissmedic. The cases are investigated either by Swissmedic itself or in cooperation with other federal or regional/local authorities.

As former Lab assistant, Police Officer and Specialist for Communication Intelligence, Robert combines all his broad experience in his daily duty as Enforcement Officer. He holds an Advanced Federal Diploma of Higher Education in Telecommunication and has also completed various CAS, to mention in particular the basic education in law.

Giancarlo is Head of Association Services and Member of the Board at Swico - the Association of Digitisers - since 2014.

The Swiss Internet Security Alliance was created in 2014 by well-known representatives of the business community. Our vision is to make Switzerland the most secure internet country in the world. The purpose of the association is to preventatively inform the public about risks and solutions pertaining to vulnerabilities of their internet use and their internet-connected devices and to make them aware of potential dangers.