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About the conference
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Information technology has the impact of making the world
a smaller place. Geography is no longer a barrier to sharing
information, and the speed of communication is impressive.
Information flow has vast benefits for the modern enterprise,
yet is overshadowed by the threat of those who abuse this
technology to bring down personal, corporate or even national
systems and networks, in turn leading to significant financial
loss and threatening national security and critical infrastructure.
Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attacks pose a debilitating
threat to enterprise networks and the flow of information
throughout the boundaryless organization. In 2000, DDOS attacks
took three to four days to replicate across the Internet,
but in 2003 the Slammer worm took just eight minutes. The
actions of attackers - spreading viruses, stealing information
and identity, undermining privacy, spoiling web sites, proving
they can break security measures - need constant responses;
it's a continual catch-up. The threat to the enterprise is
real, is all-pervasive, and is now automated.
In response, to focus on what is most important – safeguarding
information, and making IT systems as fail-safe, dependable
and reliable as possible - is critical.
This conference will bring together the foremost IT security
and other experts to detail the current security threats,
discuss the issues for enterprise communications, and outline
practical solutions.
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Speakers
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Dr. Bill Hancock, CISSP,
CISM, Vice President of Security Practice & Strategy and Chief Security
Officer, Savvis Communications |
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Bob Blakley, Chief Scientist, Security
and Privacy, IBM |
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Mark O'Neill, Chief Technology Officer,
Vordel |
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Mark Reichert, Chief Technology Officer,
Schools Interoperability Framework |
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Mick Coady, Vice President Security Practice,
Computer Associates Int. |
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Lee
Cooper, Senior Manager, Security Program Management, Oracle
Corporation |
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Ben A. Calloni, Ph.D., P.E., Chair, Real-time
& Embedded Systems Forum, The Open Group |
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Tony Hain, Technical Leader, Cisco Systems |
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Help shape this
conference
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Get the most out of your experience. Share
your thoughts on what you would
like to see and hear.
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Topics to be
covered include:
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Cyber-terrorism – the growing threat
to critical infrastructure systems and companies |
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Enterprise network security – growing your security
in line with your business and demands for increased information
dissemination / establishing security policies |
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Security architecture – generating and maintaining
an enterprise security architecture |
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Security awareness – information security is the
responsibility of staff at all levels |
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Secure system management – protecting information
assets / verifying software integrity / establishing security
procedures throughout systems lifecycles |
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Authentication and authorization – identity management
/ authorization / remote user and third-party access control |
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Risk evaluation – critical assets, their threats
and vulnerabilities / measuring and managing the risk
/ business continuity planning |
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The future threat and countermeasures – a look
ahead |
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