EU Reporter partners Non-Conventional Threat (NCT) Briefings

EU Reporter has become an exclusive media partner in the series of Non-Conventional Threat (NCT) Briefings organized by the IB Consultancy at the Aloft Brussels Schuman Hotel, which will take place every third week of the month.

The NCT Briefings will be a unique opportunity for the Brussels-based security and defence community to gather and keep up-to-date on salient present and future security threats that concern the European Union.

At the beginning of each briefing, IB Consultancy will provide an update on worldwide security threats based on open-source intelligence. This threat overview will pave the way for a vigorous exchange of views between two guest speakers that do not share a common ground on EU security and defence issues. Indeed, representatives from EU and national institutions, security and defence industries as well as a broad range of security and defence activists will take part in the lively debates. In the final part of the briefings, the audience will be given a chance to engage in a debate with the speakers.

EU Reporter will publish a full report on each debate online every month - the first edition of IB Consultancy's monthly Non-Conventional Threat Briefings, on 19 February at 18h, will have Thomas Goorden (representative of the Belgian Pirate Party) and Albert J. Jongman (former senior strategic analyst for terrorism at the Dutch ministry of defence) and will concern 'Cyber-espionage: Towards international cyber warfare?'

The starting point of the briefing is the recent NSA and GCHQ espionage scandal involving the EU and its member states. This briefing will provide an overview of major international cyber security threats and therefore cover the following topics: lessons learned from the scandal and way forward, how to address critical information networks' vulnerabilities, data security and protection, defensive versus offensive cyber security/defence strategies and cyber terrorism.

The NCT Briefings are free to attend. However, registration is required. Please click here to register.

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