Who is Lars Hilse?
Lars G. A. Hilse is a global thought leader in the fields of Digital Strategy and Cyber Security.
Since his youth, he has been enticed about computers, and their limitless possibilities in combination with the Internet. After his vocational training in the German insurance industry, and his specialisation in corporate and industrial risks thereafter, in 2007 he returned to pursue a career in what he was truly passionate about.
Today, he is a globally recognised, independent freelance consultant for digital strategy, and has successfully managed a diverse array of projects in over 30 countries around the globe from over two dozen industry verticals. His visions, and unique concepts have created over USD $1 billion increased revenue for his clients.
In the field of cyber security, he has privately funded research worth over USD $300.000. The findings resulting thereof have made him a thought leader in cyber crime, cyber terrorism, and cyber warfare/defence. Amongst many other examples, his research successfully predicted the cyber-physical terrorist attack on TV5MONDE in 2015, for which he has been invited to speak about at numerous conferences.
As a consequence, and to increase cyber-security for corporations, he joined the Hamburg based specialist insurance brokerage Alster Insurance Brokers (AIB) in 2015 to create the first globally operating cyber-insurance brokerage with a unique concept for cyber-insurance called AIB Cyber Insurance.
Upon the Snowden revelations in 2013, and Tim Berners-Lee’s call for an internet magna carta, Lars founded the Global Internet Magna Carta (GLINMACA) Project after approximately 24 months of intensive research.
Since 2007 he has written several books and published his research in the field of cyber security, especially in cyber terrorism, cyber crime, and cyber warfare/cyber defence.
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Work in Digital Strategy
Lars Hilse started consulting in business strategy in 2007. He now offers C-/Director-Level Interim Management Services, Strategic Advisory, Trainings and Workshops with a focus on profitable digital strategy both in commercial and government sectors.
In 2009 he finalised the E-Business Sales Funnel Theory, which acts as the foundation for his successful consulting assignments in over 25 countries across 20 business verticals.
His clients range from startups to global fortune 500 brands like AXA, BNP Paribas, DHL, Ferrari, Singapore Airlines, et al.
Through the help of the E-Business Sales Funnel they have capitalized well over USD $ 1 billion of increased revenue from the Internet.
His keynotes - among others at the WCF Davos - have been applauded on four continents and his publications have inspired academics in over two-dozen universities around the globe.
His groundbreaking visions about UX published in 2009 are today utilized by Facebook and other major social networks, influencing far over one billion Internet users.
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Work in Cyber Security
Shortly after his first exposure to the internet, Lars started penetration (testing) of remote systems.
With the change of german and international legislature, he left the scene and only started to regain interest in cyber security from a consulting angle during the infamous 2011 Lolita City hack.
The groundbreaking research results he presented about this case proved that - against popular academic and professional opinion - the deep web and bitcoin can be used to truly anonymise web-usage, digital communication, and telephony, thereby presenting a game changer for law enforcement and intelligence services. The results of further advanced research led to conclude that not only cyber criminals could benefit significantly from the anonymising characteristics, but also that terrorists could harness aforementioned characteristics to cause significant damage through cyber(-physical) attacks, similar to that conducted on TV5MONDE in early 2015.
Based hereon, he repeatedly outlined numerous contributing factors of existing vulnerabilities in the ever increasingly technology-reliant, western infrastructure, and published these findings in numerous papers.
Lars concludes that the increasing mass-deployment of critical network-connected infrastructure needs to be governed through international legislature, and that liability needs to be sought with the software, and operating system vendors alike.
Cyber Terrorism
His insight into and projections of the future of cyber terrorism have made him an expert-advisor in the cyber aspect of counter-terrorism.
Within the realm of cyber terrorism his main research is dedicated towards the deep web, bitcoin and other anonymising and obscuring web-services.
He very frequently presents individual briefings about the state of cyber terrorism to governments (local, state, federal), intelligence services, military institutions, and law enforcement bodies around the globe.
Cyber Crime
In cyber crime, he revealed a variety of techniques used by criminals today, and proven a disturbing increase of conventional crimes, in which the anonymising characteristics of the deep web and bitcoin (kidnapping and ransom, extortion, etc.) are exploited to drastically reduce the risk of perpetrators being apprehended by law enforcement and intelligence services.
And while Lars has planned and very successfully executed dozens of workshops and trainings for law enforcement and counter-terrorism professionals worldwide, thereby leading to a higher understanding of such instruments as deep web and bitcoin, the criminal elements are still outsmarting law enforcement due to their financing and constantly increasing ingenuity towards using technology to reduce their operational risks.
Cyber Defence
The research results about cyber terrorism were partly responsible for the insights produced about cyber defence, among which are the increased deployment of critical, network connected infrastructure, and the decreasing software and operating system standards for security vulnerabilities.
These findings were groundwork for the Continuous Vulnerability Testing (CVT) Lars has developed.
“Through Continuous Vulnerability Testing, every Nation’s changing/shifting Weaknesses in Network-Connected Infrastructure, Industry and Communication are constantly monitored and dynamically prioritized to allow immediate Exploitation of Vulnerabilities in Network-Connected Elements of Infrastructure, Industry, Communication, etc. (SCADA, PLC, SIS, RTU, DCS, PPR, PAC, VFD, BC, IED, Sensors, Position-Instruments, etc.) with the goal to disrupt “normal life” by inflicting (physical) Damage through Cyber-Attacks on the Adversary in Conflict.”
Lars G. A. Hilse is a global thought leader in the fields of Digital Strategy and Cyber Security.
Since his youth, he has been enticed about computers, and their limitless possibilities in combination with the Internet. After his vocational training in the German insurance industry, and his specialisation in corporate and industrial risks thereafter, in 2007 he returned to pursue a career in what he was truly passionate about.
Today, he is a globally recognised, independent freelance consultant for digital strategy, and has successfully managed a diverse array of projects in over 30 countries around the globe from over two dozen industry verticals. His visions, and unique concepts have created over USD $1 billion increased revenue for his clients.
In the field of cyber security, he has privately funded research worth over USD $300.000. The findings resulting thereof have made him a thought leader in cyber crime, cyber terrorism, and cyber warfare/defence. Amongst many other examples, his research successfully predicted the cyber-physical terrorist attack on TV5MONDE in 2015, for which he has been invited to speak about at numerous conferences.
As a consequence, and to increase cyber-security for corporations, he joined the Hamburg based specialist insurance brokerage Alster Insurance Brokers (AIB) in 2015 to create the first globally operating cyber-insurance brokerage with a unique concept for cyber-insurance called AIB Cyber Insurance.
Upon the Snowden revelations in 2013, and Tim Berners-Lee’s call for an internet magna carta, Lars founded the Global Internet Magna Carta (GLINMACA) Project after approximately 24 months of intensive research.
Since 2007 he has written several books and published his research in the field of cyber security, especially in cyber terrorism, cyber crime, and cyber warfare/cyber defence.
Lars Hilse on: LinkedIn // Twitter // Facebook // XING //
RETURN TO TOP
Work in Digital Strategy
Lars Hilse started consulting in business strategy in 2007. He now offers C-/Director-Level Interim Management Services, Strategic Advisory, Trainings and Workshops with a focus on profitable digital strategy both in commercial and government sectors.
In 2009 he finalised the E-Business Sales Funnel Theory, which acts as the foundation for his successful consulting assignments in over 25 countries across 20 business verticals.
His clients range from startups to global fortune 500 brands like AXA, BNP Paribas, DHL, Ferrari, Singapore Airlines, et al.
Through the help of the E-Business Sales Funnel they have capitalized well over USD $ 1 billion of increased revenue from the Internet.
His keynotes - among others at the WCF Davos - have been applauded on four continents and his publications have inspired academics in over two-dozen universities around the globe.
His groundbreaking visions about UX published in 2009 are today utilized by Facebook and other major social networks, influencing far over one billion Internet users.
RETURN TO TOP
Work in Cyber Security
Shortly after his first exposure to the internet, Lars started penetration (testing) of remote systems.
With the change of german and international legislature, he left the scene and only started to regain interest in cyber security from a consulting angle during the infamous 2011 Lolita City hack.
The groundbreaking research results he presented about this case proved that - against popular academic and professional opinion - the deep web and bitcoin can be used to truly anonymise web-usage, digital communication, and telephony, thereby presenting a game changer for law enforcement and intelligence services. The results of further advanced research led to conclude that not only cyber criminals could benefit significantly from the anonymising characteristics, but also that terrorists could harness aforementioned characteristics to cause significant damage through cyber(-physical) attacks, similar to that conducted on TV5MONDE in early 2015.
Based hereon, he repeatedly outlined numerous contributing factors of existing vulnerabilities in the ever increasingly technology-reliant, western infrastructure, and published these findings in numerous papers.
Lars concludes that the increasing mass-deployment of critical network-connected infrastructure needs to be governed through international legislature, and that liability needs to be sought with the software, and operating system vendors alike.
Cyber Terrorism
His insight into and projections of the future of cyber terrorism have made him an expert-advisor in the cyber aspect of counter-terrorism.
Within the realm of cyber terrorism his main research is dedicated towards the deep web, bitcoin and other anonymising and obscuring web-services.
He very frequently presents individual briefings about the state of cyber terrorism to governments (local, state, federal), intelligence services, military institutions, and law enforcement bodies around the globe.
Cyber Crime
In cyber crime, he revealed a variety of techniques used by criminals today, and proven a disturbing increase of conventional crimes, in which the anonymising characteristics of the deep web and bitcoin (kidnapping and ransom, extortion, etc.) are exploited to drastically reduce the risk of perpetrators being apprehended by law enforcement and intelligence services.
And while Lars has planned and very successfully executed dozens of workshops and trainings for law enforcement and counter-terrorism professionals worldwide, thereby leading to a higher understanding of such instruments as deep web and bitcoin, the criminal elements are still outsmarting law enforcement due to their financing and constantly increasing ingenuity towards using technology to reduce their operational risks.
Cyber Defence
The research results about cyber terrorism were partly responsible for the insights produced about cyber defence, among which are the increased deployment of critical, network connected infrastructure, and the decreasing software and operating system standards for security vulnerabilities.
These findings were groundwork for the Continuous Vulnerability Testing (CVT) Lars has developed.
“Through Continuous Vulnerability Testing, every Nation’s changing/shifting Weaknesses in Network-Connected Infrastructure, Industry and Communication are constantly monitored and dynamically prioritized to allow immediate Exploitation of Vulnerabilities in Network-Connected Elements of Infrastructure, Industry, Communication, etc. (SCADA, PLC, SIS, RTU, DCS, PPR, PAC, VFD, BC, IED, Sensors, Position-Instruments, etc.) with the goal to disrupt “normal life” by inflicting (physical) Damage through Cyber-Attacks on the Adversary in Conflict.”
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