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2024 is the year of online scams, finds latest annual F‑Secured Consumer Threats Guide
2024 is the year of online scams, finds latest annual F‑Secured Consumer Threats Guide
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Timo Laaksonen
President and CEO of F‑Secure. Laaksonen joined F‑Secure in 2012 and has led the Content Cloud business, Consumer Business in North and Latin America, global commercial operations in Managed Detection & Response Business Unit, and the Consumer Security Business Unit. Appointed as President and CEO in 2022. Prior to F‑Secure, Laaksonen led international business units and venture-backed start-ups in the fields of security, cloud computing, telecoms, predictive analytics, and mobile services.
Laura Kankaala
Head of Threat Intelligence, F‑Secure. Kankaala has been in the industry for almost ten years, and her background lies in offensive security (white hacking). Featuring as a professional hacker on Team Whack — a TV series for Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE that demonstrates how everything is hackable — Kankaala is well-versed in helping consumers understand cyber security, removing the jargon and simplifying the issue, something she is passionate about.
Tom Gaffney
Director of Business Development, Embedded Security, F‑Secure. With 28 years’ experience in technology, the last 15 of which in cyber security, Tom Gaffney is passionate about online privacy and security. Partnering with some of the world’s leading telecommunication providers to deliver safe online experiences, he has dedicated his career to educating people on the privacy issues surrounding digital services and teaching users how to interact digitally in the most secure way.
Joel Latto
Threat Advisor, F‑Secure. Having written about security and privacy since 2012, Joel Latto strives to raise awareness about the consumer cyber security threat landscape with educational and engaging communications. A member of the F‑Secure AI Task Force, his commitment to demystifying cyber security has led him to focus on online scams — uncovering how criminals evade social media countermeasures and creating awareness campaigns informed by research.
Ash Shatrieh
Senior Threat Intelligence Researcher, F‑Secure. With an engineering background in networking and operating systems, Ash Shatrieh is fueled by an interest in network traffic analysis and the offensive tactics of cyber security. He has blended development and security engineering throughout his decade-long career, currently combining his passion for behavioral psychology with offensive and defensive security by testing, monitoring, and attempting to break consumer-related defenses.
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