Are you secure? Are you sure?

4 June 2003

Hyde Village Hotel and Conference Centre, Captain Clarke Road, Hyde, Cheshire, SK14 4QG.

 

09:30 Registration & Coffee

 

10:00 Welcome and Introduction

Stephen Way, IBM CUA

 

10:15 The Corporate Jungle

Martin Smith MBE, The Security Company

An Overview of Corporate Crime and Violence in the New Millennium. In this presentation Martin Smith will look at the risks for corporates from terrorism, sabotage, fraud and industrial espionage, and assesses some of the steps that can be to count act these threats.

Martin is an internationally recognised author and speaker on his subject.  Over the years he has presented at all the leading world security conferences, and to the NATO Chiefs of Staff and the Directors of the European Commission.  His papers have been published widely and he is a regular contributor to the many international news networks in Europe and the USA that seek his advice on a variety of security-related subjects.  He is the programme convener and Chairman for Compsec, Europe’s leading computer security conference, and he is the Chairman of the Computer Weekly Infosecurity User Group

 

11:15 Coffee

 

11:30 Hacking Demonstration

Dan Haagman, 7Safe

In this demonstration, Dan Haagman of Security Specialists 7Safe will demonstrate how servers and networks can be compromised using simple tools, freely available on the internet.

 

12:30 Lunch

 

13:15 Perimeter Security

Simon Butterick, Commslogic

It is easy to fence your factory and alarm your offices to prevent access, but how do you go about fencing and alarming your electronic borders? In this presentation, Simon will discuss firewalls, DMZs, intruder detection systems and wireless networks and the issues surrounding each of them.

 

14:00 Penetration Testing

Simon Elliott, Commslogic

One of the tools available for checking the security of the electronic enterprise is penetration testing. In this presentation Simon Elliot will discuss how a penetration test is performed, and cover some of the methods used.

 

14:45 BS7799: Implementing a standard for security policies

Chris Ferrant, BSI

 

Chris Ferrant is the Global Product Development Manager for BS7799, and was involved with developing the BS7799 lead auditor training course and market potential at the origination of the standard. Chris delivers seminars and courses in all the major continents and sits on the JIBDEC and FISC boards in Japan as special advisor, helping to develop the Japanese ISMS standard for information security. He is also an associate advisor to the Software Productivity Consortia (an American think tank) on information security and is a founder member of the HumanFirewall.com committee


15:30 Close & tea