Tom Van de Wiele | SpeakerHub

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Bio

Tom Van de Wiele is a cyber security authority, ethical hacker and advisor.

Drawing from his 23+ years of authentic, international cyber security industry experience as an ethical hacker-for-hire and security consultant, Tom performs public speaking, consultancy and acts as an advisor cyber security and technology. His career has taken him from uncovering international industrial espionage rings, hacking power plants and ATMs, to remotely taking over container ships, mainframes and teaching law enforcement and journalists on how hacker techniques work - and how to defend against them.

Tom is on a mission is to help create and develop a cyber security culture within organisations that goes beyond compliance and technical solutionism.

Current position (1)

Ethical Hacker | Speaker | Advisor

Hacker Minded

Degrees (1)

Autodidact

1993 to 2024

Presentations

Presentations (3)

Inside The Hacker Mind

Have you ever wanted to look through the eyes of a hacker?

Want to see a real hacker at work? Do you know what hackers go for first and why? Do you know the most used mistake made within organisations when it comes to trying to protect themselves against the worse case scenarios?

Then you are in for a treat! Tom Van de Wiele will show your organisation not only how cyber attacks occur, you will be able to see, touch and experience the things that make cyber attackers successful.

The Shadow of AI & Cybersecurity

Do online attackers now really possess super human writing skills to write the perfect phishing email? Can AI and LLMs be used to make undetectable malware? Can all my company data be stolen through my service desk chatbot? Why is it so hard to make a DeepFake image or video detector? How do we use AI to our own benefit and our own defense? These and other questions will be answered in this insightful presentation along with recent media examples and self-developed proof of concept experiments.

Topics such as ethics, threat modeling, compliance and future planning are also discussed in this talk that will inform and inspire your organisation to think differently and more defensively about how it adapts generative AI as part of your cyber security strategy.

Software Supply Chains Under Threat

How do we regain control over our software stacks?

Software supply chains are what has given us the mobile apps in our pocket, the applications we use on a daily basis and the luxury and convenience that comes with software in combination of the internet. But with creation comes maintenance and upkeep, and it is here combined with the distributed and fractured state of software supply chains we come to the situation of today: a big hot mess that is the target of criminals, state actors and organized crime. So how do we regain control, where do you need to make the necessary investments and how do we get ourselves out of this situation?

Past talks (2)

The future of cybersecurity in the AI-driven world – A hacker's perspective

Masters & Robots

Warsaw, Poland

October 22, 2024

The Shadow of AI & Cyber Security

Digital Tech Summit

Copenhagen, Denmark

October 31, 2024