Security Summit

The GSMA Security Summit will bring together industry leaders, security professionals, and stakeholders from across the mobile ecosystem to address the most pressing challenges in telecoms security. This half-day programme provides a platform for strategic insight, practical collaboration, and forward-thinking dialogue, ensuring the mobile industry remains resilient and trusted in a rapidly evolving threat landscape.​

Sessions will explore the top priorities and emerging challenges for CISOs, including predictive trends and practical responses to future risks. Attendees will also gain a deeper understanding of the value of threat intelligence and secure information sharing through the work of T-ISAC and see first-hand how GSMA Working Groups are shaping global security standards and solutions. Whether you're driving strategic security policy or implementing network-level protections, this summit offers actionable insights and meaningful connections.

Agenda

Session 1: Cybersecurity in an Uncertain World 9:30 – 10:30

The cybersecurity landscape is increasingly complex. Traditional threats are now amplified by geopolitical conflict both between historical advisories but also as changes in geopolitics, shape a new increasingly confrontational world order.

For the 2026 GSMA Security Summit’s opening session, the challenges of keeping global telecommunication networks and services secure against a backdrop of increasingly uncertain adversaries will be explored.

The session will start by exploring this from both a leading global operator and vendor perspective.

Subsequently, the session will close by considering the challenges from an international law enforcement and economic risk and impact perspective.

Presentations: 9:30 - 10:00

• Nagendra Bykampadi, Rakuten, VP Security Research and Standards
• Dan Beaman, Palo Alto Networks, Global Director of 5G, IoT, and MEC

Panel Session: 10:00 - 10:30

• Darrin Jones, Interpol, Executive Director, Partnerships and Planning
• Akshay Joshi, World Economic Forum, Head of the Centre for Cybersecurity
• Anton Reynaldo Bonifacio, Globe Telecom, Chief AI Officer & Chief Information Security Officer

Moderator: Samantha Kight, GSMA, Head of Industry Security

Session 2: Intelligence in Action: Predict, Prevent, Protect 10:30 – 11:45

This session explores how intelligence-led security is shaping the global mobile ecosystem by linking strategic foresight with near real-time defence.

The session examines how operators, practitioners and industry members embed security intelligence into daily operations to strengthen collective protection, highlighting the role of analytics, processes, automation, AI and established frameworks in generating actionable insights.

Through expert perspectives and real-world examples, it demonstrates how prediction, prevention and protection methodologies are applied in practice, showing how these approaches safeguard mobile infrastructure and enhance ecosystem resilience.

Presentations: 10:30 - 11:00

• Hugues Foulon, Orange, Executive Director Orange Group & CEO Orange Cyberdefense
• Geri Revay, Fortinet, Principal FortiGuard Labs Consultant, EMEA

Panel Session: 11:00 - 11:45

• Anna Kåhre, Ericsson, Product Security Director
• Mitchell Rappard, Palo Alto Networks, Director, 5G Technical Solutions
• Geri Revay, Fortinet, Principal FortiGuard Labs Consultant, EMEA
• Terje Jensen, Telenor, Senior Vice President

Moderator: Adrian Gorham, GSMA, Director, Global Anti-Fraud and Scam Prevention

Session 3: Securing the Mobile Ecosystem: Innovations and Initiatives 12:00 – 13:00

The security landscape continues to evolve and become more complex, with new threats, challenges and opportunities emerging continuously.

In this session, we will explore industry and regulatory initiatives aimed at addressing these challenges.

Starting with the work of GSMA Fraud and Security Group (FASG), the session will explore how GSMA is convening its members to champion and develop industry security best practice across the mobile eco-system from handset to core network to API to application security. This will be followed by a vendor perspective on how they solve those issues in real-world scenarios.

Finally, the session will explore how alignment and collaboration across international governments can bring a unified approach to supporting strong security across the telecommunications ecosystem.

Lightning Presentations: 12:00 - 12:30

• Eugene Liderman, Google, Senior Director of Product for Android Security & Privacy 
• Yargin Xiao, Huawei, Vice President, Cybersecurity & Privacy Protection

Panel Session: 12:30 - 13:00

• Brooke Donilon, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, Chief of Staff
• Chris Padfield, Spectrum and Telecommunications Sector at Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada,  Senior Assistant Deputy Minister 
• Takuo Imagawa, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications
• Etienne Chaponniere, Qualcomm, VP Technical Standards
• Gabriela Styf Sjöman, BT Group, Managing Director of Research and Network Strategy

Moderator: Kevin Adams, Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, Director of Digital Infrastructure