Should IT departments ring fence systems like walled
fortresses, or adopt a more open policy where people have general
access but different security clearance levels for specific
areas?
That, in essence, will be the debate taking place at the
Infosecurity Europe conference on 26 April, when IT security
directors from blue chip companies will argue the case for and
against security architecture based on the deperimeterised
model.
Speakers will include Nicholas Bleech, IT security director at
Rolls-Royce, Dan Blum, senior vice-president and research director
at Burton Group, and Paul Simmonds, global information security
director at ICI. The session will be chaired by Richard Starnes,
president of the UK arm of the Information Systems Security
Association.
Another debate at the annual Infosecurity Europe exhibition and
conference, which runs from 25-27 April at London's Olympia, will
probe whether the business advantages of voice over IP outweigh
security concerns.
With use of VoIP predicted to treble annually over the next few
years, top IT security directors will debate the opportunities,
projection of costs and nature of the security threats.
With panelists including John Meakin, group head of information
security at Standard Chartered Bank, and Andrew Yeomans,
vice-president and global IT security director at
DresdnerKleinwortWasserstein, this session will be strongly rooted
in practical experience.
Another key issue to be addressed at the conference is how best
to tackle the growing challenges of regulatory and legislative
compliance. Compliance is necessary to reduce risk for businesses
of all sizes, but at what point does a risk-averse strategy harm
development and enterprise?
Jeremy Beale, head of e-business policy at the Confederation of
British Industry, will chair a session examining these issues, not
only for large organisations but also for small and medium-sized
businesses. Andreas Wuchner, chief information security officer at
Novartis, Paul Davis, IMS director at Simons Group, and two IT
lawyers will discuss how to get the right balance.
The last conference session of Infosecurity Europe, and one of
the most popular each year, is the Hackers Panel. This year the
panel of experts will discuss the motivations for hackers and also
provide a practical demonstration exposing some of the myths
relating to computer hacking.
Chairman of the session will be author Robert Schifreen, who, in
1985, was the first person in the world to be tried by a jury in
connection with computer hacking. He was acquitted on appeal and
also by the House of Lords, but his case paved the way for the
Computer Misuse Act in 1990.
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