The 4th CyberTrust Talk, hosted by Siemens and the Charter of Trust, brought experts from diplomacy, politics and industry together in Berlin to discuss how to strengthen cybersecurity and digital trust while keeping regulation, innovation and international cooperation aligned.
🚀 How can we strengthen cybersecurity and digital trust while keeping regulation, innovation and international cooperation aligned?
That was the question at the heart of the 4th CyberTrust Talk, which brought experts from diplomacy, politics, and industry together in Berlin for an open exchange on how governments and industry can respond to emerging technologies and an evolving cyber threat landscape.
Hosted by Siemens and the Charter of Trust, the evening explored cyber resilience from multiple perspectives — from its economic impact and the protection of critical infrastructure to the resilience of democratic institutions, and the regulatory frameworks needed to strengthen security without undermining innovation and competitiveness.
One message from the panel discussion stood out: across countries, sectors and companies, we are increasingly facing the same interconnected threat landscape — even as approaches and requirements continue to differ.
Some of the key takeaways were:
🔐 Share more intelligence. Timely and trusted information-sharing across organizations, sectors and borders is essential to identify threats earlier and strengthen collective resilience.
🤝 Strengthen public-private partnerships. Governments and industry bring different capabilities and perspectives to the table. Closer cooperation creates more opportunities to learn from one another and develop stronger, more coordinated responses.
🛡️ Make security the default. Cybersecurity needs to be embedded into products and technologies from the outset, rather than added later. Security by design must increasingly become security by default, starting at the earliest stages of product development and launch.
A big thank you to our speakers for contributing their perspectives and making the discussion such a valuable exchange: Sudhir Ethiraj (TÜV SÜD), David Holt (British Embassy Berlin), Felix Kroll (Auswärtiges Amt (Federal Foreign Office) Germany), Natalia Oropeza (Siemens) and Nooshin Soltani (US-Botschaft) — as well as moderator Dr Sumit Chanda (Atos, Co-Chair Charter of Trust).
We will take these valuable impulses back into our Charter of Trust working groups, translating the discussion into concrete action and helping turn shared ambition into meaningful change.
Thank you as well to all participants and partners who joined us in Berlin and contributed to the exchange.
The conversation on building digital trust across sectors and borders continues.
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