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IT Security
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IT Security | 13-14 June 2006

Overview

IT Security is the major development market in Information Technology. Budgets in security and crime prevention and detection will treble in the coming years with estimates of 30% of income being cited as the expenditure for organisations who wish to retain and protect their resources and information.

Organisations also have a need to increase their development of tools, concepts and protocols to stop penetration of systems and to ensure that these tools are useful and relative to their business environment. The global market has also identified the need to build internal awareness with regards to best practise and use in development of systems and tools to protect and repulse.

The Financial Industry Regulators are driving a number of initiatives to improve the level of control and security within banks and other organisations. These initiatives, BaselII and SOX, will have a major impact on the security and control requirements around a large number of systems.

The Institution of Engineering and Technology Conference on Crime and Security: The Technical Fight is designed to bring together a plethora of delegates from within a range of fields to discuss and develop networks at and after the event and to ask the technical and social questions that are of high importance in this changing and developing market place. It will discuss the impact technology can have upon physical safety, fraud and criminal activity prevention, data protection and issues and concerns for future social, economic and law enforcement developments.

Programme

The Institution of Engineering and Technology Conference on
CRIME AND SECURITY

The Technical Fight
13 – 14 June 2006
Savoy Place, London, UK

Tuesday, 13 June 2006
   
08.45 Registration and Refreshments
09.15 Chairman’s Introduction
Neil Jarvis, Senior Information Risk Control Officer, UBS Investment Bank, UK
09.20

Keynote Address:The Rules of Life - A Holistic Approach to Security
Edward P Gibson, Chief Security Advisor, Microsoft, UK

  • Law enforcement; governments; industry
  • Technology - trustworthy computing and security development lifecycles
  • People and the rules of life
   
Session 1: The Secure Web: A Vendor’s Story
   
09.50

Federated Identity: Securing Citizen Inclusion, Take-up and Trust for Online Services
Drew Wagar, Identity Specialist, Sun Microsystems, UK

  • What is Identity and why is it so important?
  • What stops the take up of online services?
  • How does Federation address these issues?
10.15

The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard: Impact on Retail Information Technology
John Duffin, Director of Security and EFT Consulting, The Logic Group, UK

  • The PCI DSS is the card schemes' latest initiative to reduce card fraud
  • It forces the retail industry into facing information security issues
  • The potential costs of compliance could exceed the costs of chip & pin
10.40

PCI DSS – Closing the Loop on ‘Card Not Present’ Fraud
Robin Docksey, Information Security Manager, Play.com, UK

  • PCI DSS has changed the way vendors and merchants view their networks and electronic processes. The stringent rules now imposed and subsequent vulnerability scans, will have an impact on their resources as they work towards meeting the security criteria
  • These security requirements cover the majority of fundamental IT Security principals, therefore some will already be in place and others will require long term work to achieve
  • Defining which issues to prioritise can be difficult. There are however, some security processes that can be implemented quickly and easily allowing the longer term projects to remain unchanged
11.05 Refreshments
   
Session 2: The Wireless Network: Safe as Houses or Just a Yard at a Time?
   
11.25

How Secure is Wi-Fi Today?
Neil Jarvis, Senior Information Risk Control Officer, UBS Investment Bank, UK

  • Follow up of security studies performed in 2001The growth of wireless access points over the past few years
  • The state of security with regard to these devices
  • Weaknesses in implemented wireless networks Is Wi-Fi Security worse than it was four years ago?
11.50

Corporate Awareness and Wireless Security 80211X
Simon Gunning, Technical Director, Digilog, UK

  • Aging Systems – what you need to know
  • Being aware of change
  • Tools to capture a wireless network
12.15

Personal Area Networks: A Hole in Your Pocket!
Mark Rowe, IT Security Consultant, Pentest Limited, UK

  • Bluetooth is everywhere but how secure is it?
  • Why are devices still vulnerable to three year old vulnerabilities?
  • Mobile phones exploits are old news, and synchronise PDA – where did my network go?
12.40 Lunch
   
Session 3: Trusted Computing, the Hardware Case – Trusted Computing Base
   
13.30 Trusted Computing, Integrating Trust and Security into Computer Platforms
Hans Brandl, Senior Scientist Trusted Computing, Technical Marketing, Infineon, Germany
  • Today’s computer threats and attacks are still increasing - Why?
  • The Trusted Computing Group (TCG)creates standards to integrate trust and security into computing platforms
  • T/C motherboards and system kernels contain a hardware based root of trust for enabling built in security with next generation trusted OS and applications
13.55

Using Trusted Computing to Build a Safer World
Martin Sadler, Director of Trusted Systems Lab, HP, UK

  • The problems that motivated the industry coming together to work on Trusted Computing
  • The key ideas and how they can be utilised by operating systems and applications
  • Where we are in realising safer solutions
14.20

Trusted Computing Opportunities and Threats
Alan Cox, Open Source Developer, UK

  • The technology is here and it's not going away
  • Developing your current tools
  • Challenges to IT and compliance
14.45 Refreshments
   
Session 4: Personnel ID and Protecting the User
   
15.05

The Requirements of the Data Protection Act 1998
Stewart Room, Partner and Head of Data Protection Unit, Rowe Cohen, UK

This presentation will identify the IT security issues within the Data Protection Act 1998 and the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003. Key issues covered include:

  • The requirements of the seventh data protection principle and its interpretation
  • Guidance issued by the Information Commissioner
  • The special security issues for electronic communications
15.30

Identifying the Global User
Sian Birch, Freelance Security Consultant, UK

  • User identity issues within a truly global organisation
  • The ever-present social engineering threat - countering 'soft' attacks on user identity
  • Securing access to the virtual workplace - handhelds, portals, and other very remote access
15.55

The Importance of Employee Awareness to Information Security: Three Case Studies
Martin Smith, Managing Director, The Security Company Ltd, UK

  • If security infrastructure is the engine, staff awareness is the oil
  • The critical importance of engaging personnel
  • Just how important investment can be to the success of a company's information security policies and infrastructure
16.20

Information Rights Management: Enabling you the Author to Control how your Documents and Messages are Used by Your Readers
Stephen Lamb, Technical Security Lead, Microsoft Ltd, UK

  • Security mechanisms typically break down once your document or email is transferred outside your network boundary
  • Information Rights Management can enable you to project and enforce using MW and MSO
16 45 Panel Discussion
Session Speakers
Open Forum
17.00 Close of Sessions
17.30 Registration and Refreshments for the Institution of Engineering and Technology John Pinkerton Lecture
18.00 The Institution of Engineering and Technology John Pinkerton Lecture 2006
e-Science and Cyberinfrastructure
Lecture by Professor Tony Hey, VP Scientific Computing, Microsoft, USA
19.30 Dinner
   
Wednesday, 14 June 2006
   
08.50 Chairman’s Introduction
Stephen Lamb, Technical Security Lead, Microsoft Ltd, UK
08.55

Keynote Address: The Electronic Attack Environment to 2010
Roger Cumming, Director, National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre (NISCC), UK

  • Increasing risk in the information assurance space over the next few years
  • The possible impact will affect more than just documents
  • Sharing information about threats and vulnerabilities will improve the protection of systems
 
Session1: Good Security in the Cathedral and Bazaar
   
09.35

Who Do You Trust? An Open Source Approach to Secure e-Business
Eddie Bleasdale, Director, netproject, UK

  • Secure e-Government / e-Business new challenges to the way IT services are delivered
  • The benefits and financial gains from e-services are such that the current lack of security cannot be allowed to continue
  • The existing investment in IT must be supported
10.15 Ben Laurie, Director of Security, The Bunker, UK
10.50 Refreshments
 
Session 2: Privacy – Tick the Box
   
11.10

Why Phish when you can Trawl?
Phil Cracknell, Director, Security Consulting Practice, Capgemini, UK

  • An emerging form of electronic crime
  • Wireless hot spot development
  • Secure network issues
11.35

Challenging Compliance
Stuart King, Information Security Manager, Reed Elsevier, UK

  • What are we aiming for: the myriad of different regulations and legislation that we have to address
  • How much security do we need to have?
  • Working together to achieve compliance: we all face the same challenges, so let’s communicate
12.00

Data Privacy: Fiction or Reality? How much Privacy are Individuals Entitled to Under the Law?
Scott Singer,
Partner, Denton Wilde Sapte, UK

  • Is there a law of data privacy?
  • When does it apply?
  • How far does it go?
  • Do companies need to be concerned?
  • What should you be doing to comply?
12.25 Lunch
   
Session 3: Writing Software - Securing Coding Good Practice, How To Do It
   
13.15 Database Security – the Forgotten Threat
David Litchfield, Managing Director, NGS, UK
13.40

Software Security – Where are we Going Wrong?
Daniel Cuthbert, Corsaire, and Chairman, London Chapter, OWASP, UK

  • A look at why the current development model is flawed
  • How to introduce security into the development lifecycle
  • How to persuade management and developers that security is important
14.05

MySQL Security: Best Practices
Ivan Zoratti, Sales Engineer, MySQL AB, UK

  • How to operate a MySQL database in a secure way
  • Describing some of security mechanisms of MySQL (e.g. access control system, security features like archive tables, encryption)
  • Best practice for MySQL
14.30 Refreshments
   
Session 4: The Health of Computers Via Network Access Protection
   
14.50 Paul King, Senior Advisor, Cisco, UK
15.15

Latest Threats in Malware
Graham Cluley, Senior Technology Consultant, Sophos, UK

  • Cybercriminals are joining forces, launching attacks using combined technology
  • Find out how spyware has grown as a proportion of all new threats
  • Discover how and why malware authors have turned away from viruses and worms to targeted Trojan horse attacks
15.40

Endpoint Security - the Soft Centre Inside the Hard Shell
Steve Knight, Information Security Officer, Herbert Smith LLP, UK

  • How to abuse Windows in the 21st century
  • Common mistakes we should have learned to avoid
  • Tips for not making the same mistakes again
   
Session 5: Controls and Developments in Personal Identification
   
16.05

Identification of Individuals using e-Passports
Bill Perry, Senior Consultant, e-Passport Program, UK Passport Service, UK

  • How can this new technology be used commercially?
  • What benefits are there across government?
  • How can this influence joined up government?
16.30

RFID Security
Phil Royston, Project Manager, Innovision Research and Technology, UK

  • What is RFID and NFC? - a brief explanation of how RFID and NFC works
  • How secure is RFID? - an outline of the types of threats which may apply and how they can be countered
  • How secure is NFC? - the tag in your phone, new security threats and how they might be countered....
16.55 Chairman’s Closing Remarks
17.00 Close of Conference
   

 

 

Organised by The Institution of Engineering and Technology e-infrastructure, Visual Information Engineering, Communication Networks and Services and Multimedia Communications Professional Networks