MDR - Do you really need it?

Do you actually need MDR - or is it just another security checkbox? This panel looks at the real drivers behind today’s decisions: escalating business risk, evolving threats, and the growing gap between required and actual available skills. The panel will discuss the build vs. buy conundrum with a clear view on cost, capability, and speed of response. Backed by real incident experiences, the discussion will expose what truly matters when an attack hits, and whether MDR makes a measurable difference when it counts.

Trent Matchett Bio
Trent Matchett is a Global Cybersecurity sales leader with a career built across channel sales, solution selling, and strategic alliances. At ESET, he focuses on building meaningful, long-term customer engagements — working across global markets to ensure organisations not only adopt the right security solutions, but continue to derive lasting value from them. His approach centres on understanding customers' evolving needs and fostering the kind of trusted partnerships that strengthen security posture over time.

Tony Liersch Bio
Tony Liersch is 52 years old and has been the Infrastructure and Support Team Leader at Klinikum Garmisch-Partenkirchen for just under five years. He brings over 20 years of experience in IT infrastructure and security.
When selecting partners, he places particular importance not only on technological expertise but also on a competent and reliable attitude. He strongly believes that exceptional results can only be achieved on a foundation of trust — a principle that drives his work every day.

Claudio De Mattia Bio
Claudio De Mattia is a Milan-based healthcare IT leader currently serving as Chief Information Officer at Lifenet Healthcare. Lifenet Healthcare is an Italian healthcare group comprising private hospitals accredited with the National Health Service, surgical centres, diagnostic clinics, and eye clinics. In his role, Claudio leads the group's digital transformation agenda, promoting the modernisation of IT systems and applications across the group's structures, balancing centrally managed initiatives with the specific needs of each facility.
He brings extensive prior experience with over thirty years of experience in Information Technology and more than twenty years dedicated to the healthcare sector, during which he has developed deep expertise in the digital transformation of organizations. He has led complex innovation projects, integrating information systems, cybersecurity, and the optimization of clinical, diagnostic, and administrative processes. His vision is based on a key principle: technology has value only when it tangibly improves people’s lives.

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