Maria Souvalioti - Remember, remember the 5th of November - The CyberSecurity Landscape of 2025

Wednesday 5 Nov 2025, 12:00 → 15:00 Europe/London

610 (G.O. Jones Bulding)

https://fnal.zoom.us/j/93197574512?pwd=bGlJTHlGTnVtTFFwRnlpYnhrdm5rdz09

About the speaker: 

Maria Souvalioti is a Senior Systems and Network Engineer at NCSR Demokritos with extensive experience in advanced networking, cybersecurity, and open-source cloud infrastructure. She has co-led the design and migration of large-scale campus networks, contributed to national and EU-funded R&D projects (such as 6G CLOUD and AInception), and specializes in L3 architectures, SDN, network automation, and virtualization technologies including oVirt, KVM, and VMware. With a strong academic foundation in Next-Gen Communication Networks and Distributed Application Environments, she has also authored several technical papers and delivered talks on SDDC (Software Designed Data Center) and open-source virtualization. Maria is a passionate advocate for open-source technologies and secure-by-design architectures, actively engaged in the evolving landscape of network security, secure network architectures (such as SCION), and infrastructure resilience.

13:30 → 14:00 Biscuits/Coffee/Socialization

14:00 → 15:00 Remember, remember the 5th of November - The CyberSecurity Landscape of 2025

The talk offers a clear and practical introduction to the field of cybersecurity; what it is, what it involves, and how it connects to everyday systems and research environments. We’ll explore how security teams operate (red, blue, and purple), how attacks are detected and countered, and how the global threat landscape looks in 2025 based on the latest ENISA findings. The goal is to make the subject approachable and relevant to researchers from any discipline, highlighting why cybersecurity matters to everyone working with data, networks, or connected systems.

Convener: Ms Maria Souvalioti (NCSR Demokritos)