Common Secure Conference 2025
The 7th Annual Common Secure Conference, hosted by UNICC, brings together cybersecurity leaders and practitioners from across the UN system to explore how artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping the cyber landscape. This year’s theme, “Embracing AI in Cybersecurity,” highlights the rapidly evolving role of AI in both cybersecurity challenges and solutions.
The conference is dedicated exclusively to UN personnel and Common Secure partners, the international CERTs and industry vendors.
Forum Details
Date
27 – 30 October 2025
Time
9:00 – 13:00 EDT
Location
Online
Agenda
All times are shown in Eastern Time Zone – EDT
Day 1 – 27 October 2025
9:00 – 9:30
Opening and Keynote
Tima Soni, Chief, Cybersecurity Division, UNICC
9:30 – 10:15
UN System Threat Landscape
Marco Molteni, Cyber Threat Intelligence Team Lead, UNICC
10:15 – 11:00
Zero Trust Transformation: From Legacy Firewall Perimeter to Netskope SASE
Ahmad El-Farra, Senior Information Security Specialist, UNRWA
11:00 – 11:15
Break
11:15 – 12:00
Detecting and Responding to IIS Threats
Mohammed Srour, Information Security Specialist (Incidence Response), UNICC
12:00 – 12:45
Tabletop Testing 2.0 Training for Chaos in the Age of AI
Sandra Bardon, Cybersecurity Analyst, UNICC
Day 2 – 28 October 2025
9:00 – 9:10
Opening
Tima Soni, Chief, Cybersecurity Division, UNICC
9:10 – 9:30
Keynote
The State of AI, Cloud and Cybersecurity
Jim Reavis, Co-founder & CEO, Cloud Security Alliance
9:30 – 10:15
VIP Impersonations
Yamini Sharma, Associate Cybersecurity Analyst, UNICC
10:15 – 11:00
From Automation to Augmentation: Evolving the SOC
Gabriella Andriuzzi, Cybersecurity Operations Monitoring Team Lead, UNICC
Carlos Gil, Cybersecurity Associate Analyst, UNICC
11:00 – 11:15
Break
11:15 – 12:00
Panel Discussion
AI Security Challenges and Assessments
Amanda Mccabe, Section Head, Infrastructure Services, IAEA
Oleksiy Kuzmenko, Chief Information Security Officer, UNDP
Fabio Maggiore, Chief Information Security Officer, UNICC
12:00 – 12:45
Resilience by Design: Using Red Teams to Build Better Defences
Sandra Bardon, Cybersecurity Analyst, UNICC
Day 3 – 29 October 2025
9:00 – 9:10
Opening
Tima Soni, Chief, Cybersecurity Division, UNICC
9:10 – 9:45
MAESTRO: A Novel Threat Modeling Framework for Agentic AI
Ken Huang, Research Fellow at Cloud Security Alliance, CEO of DistributedApps.ai
9:45 – 10:30
Is AI-Generated Code Secure?
Julian Totzek-Hallhuber, Senior Principal Solution Architect, Veracode
10:30 – 11:15
Cyber Threat Landscape from Google Perspective
Aviv Ben-Or, Manager, Mandiant Intelligence, Google
11:15 – 11:30
Break
11:30 – 12:15
Hybrid threats & the Cyber domain
Jan-Uwe Pettke, Specialist, Counter Adversary Operations, Crowdstrike
12:15 – 13:00
Securing Tomorrow: Navigating Trust, Data, and AI in a UN World
Daniel Kent, Field Chief Technology Officer, Cloudflare
Day 4 – 30 October 2025
9:00 – 9:10
Opening
Tima Soni, Chief, Cybersecurity Division, UNICC
9:10 – 9:45
Strategic Threat Response to Cyber Attacks and Abuses
George Chen, Head of CloudSec and WebSec, Dyson
9:45 – 10:30
Bad Romance: Lessons learned Build and Breaking CSIRTs in Africa
Lawrence Muchilwa, Africa Regional Liaison, FIRST
10:30 – 11:15
Threat Intelligence Briefing: What We Have Seen & Why It Matters
Ivan Strydom, Security Engineer, CrowdStrike
11:15 – 11:30
Break
11:30 – 12:15
Cyber challenges introduced by AI from a defensive perspective
Jon Tidwell, Cloud and AI Services Lead, Google Public Sector
12:15 – 13:00
Building Better DDoS Mitigation
Michael Smith, Field Chief Technology Officer, DigiCert
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Past Common Secure Conferences
UNICC hosts an annual Common Secure Conference with the goal to bring its information security Partners together to increase the UN family circle of trust, share intelligence on cyber practices and provide feedback on UNICC Common Secure services. The multi-day workshop blends vendor and regional stakeholder sessions with feedback, presentations and input from participating Agencies.
