Company and personal identity theft. Data privacy. Internet and IT security has practical and physical security impacts too – because it is about defending your organisation and protecting your information.
Hence the ninth annual conference, Websec 2006, in London from March 27 to 30 organised by MIS Training is titled, โTurning information Security Risk into Real-World Business Intelligenceโ. Invited speakers so far include: Neil Jarvis, Director of Security Risk, CSO Office, UBS; Nick Bleech, IT Security Director, Rolls-Royce; Mark Chaplin, Identity Management Project Manager, Information Security Forum; and Simon Pascoe, Lead Security Architect, BT.<br> <br><br>Among the topics are more than pure computing ones: disaster recovery and business continuity; raising employee awareness of securing information; monitoring what your staff are doing with your information assets; intellectual property protection; biometrics; and security management of outsourcers and contracts. And one sessions titled โsniffing the networkโ will ask: what level of secrecy can you speak about over the phone? What are the prospects of a merging of physical and logical security?<br><br>The technical side of info-security will be covered too, such as worms, malware, spyware and adware; viruses and spam; and Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. In a hacker step by step demonstration, you can sit beside an ethical hacker as he breaks into an enterprise network. You’ll learn what tools he uses and what he attacks. Chris Cook, Head of Product & Service Security, Fraud, Risk & Security, Vodafone, will discuss mobile device security.<br> <br>There is also an exhibition, an opportunity to meet suppliers of technology and services for security. And time set aside for networking; and for security issues specific to financial institutions. New for the 2006 event is a day, March 27, for an identity management summit. As organisers point out, identify theft puts pressure on data sellers; and hackers may steal personal records by the tens of thousands.
