UK speakers were to the fore at a London conference on securing cyberspace.
UK speakers were to the fore at a London conference on securing cyberspace. Compsec 2001 ran from October 17 to 19 at the QEII Conference Centre, Westminster. Case studies came from Paul Wood, Executive Director and Head of Security Risk, UBS Warburg; Richard Hackworth, Head of IT Security, HSBC Holdings; Patricia Anderson, Head of Group Information Security, The Royal Bank of Scotland Group; Martin Whitehead, Head of Information Security, The Co-operative Bank, on gaining BS7799, the British Standard accreditation in information security; Nick Reeve, Head of Information Security EU, Inovant; Aled Miles, Managing Director Europe, Symantec; and Dr John Meakin, Managing Director, Head of Global IT Security, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, on e-commerce.
Other speakers included: Michael Harrison, Board Member of the Information Assurance Advisory Council, on the UK National Infrastructure Protection Initiative; David Aubrey-Jones, Head of Security Strategy, KPMG, on the threat of viruses and malicious code on mobile devices; David Davies, Director, Aon Business Risk Consulting, Aon Risk Services; Ian Lloyd, Director of Security, The Open Group, on active loss prevention; Stephen Cummings, Director, National Infrastructure Security Coordination Centre, on the NISCC; Andrew Hiles, chairman of business continuity body Survive; and Lizzie Coles-Kemp, Information Security Analyst, Cat and Mouse Security.
?Ethical hackers? from Defcom showed how easily intruders can gain access to a retail company?s so-called ?secure? website, and retrieve customers? credit card details. For details visit www.compsec2001.com.
