Threat Intelligence Practitioners' Summit (TIPS) Most VB Conference attendees work in roles in which threat intelligence plays a vital part – whether tasked with collecting and generating threat intelligence data to share with others, or as consumers of that data, using it to assist them in fighting real-world threats.
Started in 2018, the Threat Intelligence Practitioners' Summit (TIPS) is a mini-summit within the VB Conference that acts as a forum bringing together industry analysts, commercial and academic researchers, network operators and software developers, to hone in on the specific challenges and successes of working in threat intelligence.
Since 2019, VB has partnered with the Cyber Threat Alliance (CTA) to co-host TIPS which, under CTA's curation, has become a popular and integral part of the VB conference.
The VB2025 Threat Intelligence Practitioners' Summit takes place on 25 September, and includes a range of talks, fireside chats and panels focusing on community-driven threat defence.
| 09:00 - 09:30 |
Welcome Michael Daniel (Cyber Threat Alliance) Keynote: TBA |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Smashing smishing by quashing quishing Andrew Brandt (Netcraft) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Collective intelligence in OT cybersecurity: transforming threat insights into proactive defence AJ Eserjose (OT-ISAC) |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Tea/Coffee |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | The battlegrounds are moving faster than we are – can we turn this oil-tanker on a dime? Tim West (WithSecure) |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | How MITRE is AI, anyway? Samir Mody (K7 Computing) |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Fireside chat: The tortured “cybersecurity” poets department Cat Self (MITRE), Jeanette Miller, Jeannette Jarvis (Cyber Threat Alliance), Selena Larson (Proofpoint) |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Diff'ing the light fantastic – tracking typosquatting and disinformation in a resource-constrained environment James Slaughter (Fortinet) |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Beyond machine translation: struggles and adaptations of North Korean IT workers in Japan's crowdsourcing market Takahiro Kakumaru & Yoshihiro Kori (NEC) |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Panel: The wheels on the CVE go round and round: breaking the cycle of vulnerability fatigue Righard Zwienenberg (ESET), Robin Staa (NCSC-NL), John Alexander (Mayo Clinic), Geri Revay (Fortinet) |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Tea/Coffee |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Stop the flood: building a quality and trust-driven threat intelligence ecosystem Kihong Kim & SuhMahn Hur (SandsLab) |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | From clusters to actors: a practical threat actor attribution framework Kyle Wilhoit & Robert Falcone (Palo Alto Networks) |
| 17:00 - 17:30 |
Wrap-up Michael Daniel (Cyber Threat Alliance) |
See the whole VB2025 programme