AthCon was founded in 2009 by Cyberdefend Limited under premise of introducing a hard core IT Security Conference within the Hellenic IT Security Sector.

AthCon is an annual IT security conference that takes place in Athens Greece designed to give a technical insight to the world of IT security. A realistic, practical view of current and evolving threats and security trends presented by top international security experts.

Athcon is by no means a common IT Security conference. Sessions include highly technical demonstrations of security threats and exploitation techniques. Our overarching aim in founding AthCon was and still is to increase
IT Security awareness in Greece. The first AthCon was successfully organised in June 2010 and our hope is to make
AthCon every years' must-see hot security event.

AthCon is the brainchild of two noted security professionals; Kyprianos Vasilopoulos and Christian Papathanasiou.

Kyprianos is a Information Security consultant for Trustwave Spiderlabs. SpiderLabs is the advanced security
team at Trustwave responsible for incident response, penetration testing and application security tests for Trustwave’s clients.
Kyprianos has 13 years of experience within the IT Security sector. He possesses a BSc from Manchester Metropolitan
University in Electronic Engineering. Kyprianos was the lead penetration tester for three olympics events(Athens 2004,
Torino 2006 and Beijing 2008). He is Offensive Security OSCP certified. Kyprianos's IT security insight is frequently
called upon by leading Greek media.

Christian has presented internationally at thought leading IT Security conferences such as Black Hat and DEFCON.
His research has been featured by many news organizations including Forbes, Reuters, Slashdot, Computerworld, ZDNet,
CSO Magazine, Dark Reading, Threatpost, CNET and eWeek.Christian holds a MSc with Distinction in Information Security from
the Information Security Group at Royal Holloway, University of London a CISSP and a MEng in Chemical Engineering from UMIST.