What do the Bradford football stadium and Piper Alpha oil rig fires, the Hillsborough stadium disaster, 7-7, and a computer hacking of your corporate computer system have in common?
They were, or are, all incidents, that security staff have to manage. Hence FIRM 2006 – the Forum for Incident Response & Management (FIRM) – is running in London in November.
Invited speakers at The Auditorium, ACE Insurance, 100 Leadenhall Street, EC3 include Dai Davies, former head of Royal and Diplomatic Protection Group; Neil Hare-Brown from the organisers and information security consultancy QCC, Peter Wood of First Base Technologies; Peter Hoath of BT, Tom Fairfax of InfoSec Associates; Bill Briggs of Barclays Capital; Martin Smith of The Security Company; and Phil Swinburne former policy advisor to the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU). Questions that the seminar seeks to answer include: how do you assess risks; who do you notify about an incident, and how; how do you recover from an incident; and what may be the legal issues. Threats, the organisers point out, can range from floods or power outages in the City of London to pandemic flu, terrorism, an economic recession and disgruntled staff.
