John Bayliss: Vulnerabilities of Communications Devices. The Threat from Foreign Intelligence Services, Criminals, Terrorists and Hackers – INCLUDING LIVE DEMO!

It is generally agreed that education is the most important aspect of protecting your information. Some attacks are almost impossible to mitigate against, so knowing what form an attack might take is critical. With ever-increasing vulnerabilities around communication (Blackberries, mobiles, laptops, Bluetooth, WiFi), keeping your company data secure is critical to your business’ survival. How can you ensure that your private commercial information stays just that - Private?

Vulnerabilities

• Tempest
• Radio Communications
• Mobile Phones (Demonstration)
• PDAs
• Espionage

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 Dai Davis: The Legal Aspects of Cloud Computing

Cloud computing has been an information technology (IT) buzzword for many years and now it's firmly ensconced in the mainstream of ICT and business. It is often closely associated with “Software as a Service” (SaaS), one of the fastest growing segments of the IT industry, which provides a more cost-effective alternative for enterprises to achieve their business objectives than traditional packaged applications.

In some areas of business, such as records management, cloud computing has high visibility because it is associated with large costs savings. However, cloud computing can be used in a less high profile manner in other areas of a business, from marketing to engineering, from contact database management to word processing. Cloud computing can be easily adopted, but with that adoption can come both obvious and hidden difficulties of great importance.

Is cloud computing for everyone? What are the contractual and legal risks of cloud computing? What are the legal-security implications? How should they be addressed? How can they be minimised and avoided? This workshop examines how cloud computing can be adopted and the dangers avoided on a practical level.

Dai Davis is a partner at his own law firm Percy Crow Davis & Co as well as a Chartered Engineer. He is also an active member of the Information Systems Security Association and is therefore well placed to speak on these issues.  Among the aspects of cloud computing and SaaS that Dai will cover are:

• What is the relationship between cloud computing and SaaS?
• How and when is cloud computing used in companies?
• How and when should it be used?
• Security, due diligence and data security implications
• Control and ownership of data in the cloud
• Dealing with termination and other practical issues

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 Andrew Erving: Should we still worry about terrorist attacks in the UK, and if so, what form will they take?

Now that Usama bin Ladin and co have been pretty well put out of action what is the present terrorist threat in the UK and elsewhere? What should we be concerned about now, especially in the run–up to London 2012? What can the government and the agencies do both to prevent attacks and, heaven forbid, to deal with the consequences? This session contains the personal impressions of a former practitioner, with experience in the London CT community and central government’s COBR.

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 Dr Duncan Hine: The UK Cyber Security Challenge - a new way to find talented individuals

2012 will be the third year of the UK Cyber Security Challenge. This is an usual way of helping people enter the cyber security industry and has uncovered some remarkable talent in the past. The presentation will give an update on progress to date and give an insight into some of the issues and challenges that cyber security faces in the when we have a critical shortage of skilled people.
 
The challenge represents an innovative way of overcoming some of these problems and is making a real difference.

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