International speakers converge on SA for security summit

The event includes a conference, expo and workshops to inform business managers, CIOs and chief IT security officers about the current and future information security threat landscape. Hear first-hand from international speakers about security strategies that deliver results, with practical insights from leading financial institutions such as Nedbank, Standard Bank, Barclays, Absa, and the Co-operative Bank of Kenya. Two days of expert insights and case studies and hands-on workshops covering cloud security, web application hacking and security metrics, covering hot topics such as data privacy in an increasingly connected world.

International speakers:

• Caroline Wong, strategic security manager at Zynga Game Network. She will explain how to plan for cloud implementations. Wong was formerly the chief of staff for the Global Information Security Team at eBay, where she built the security metrics program from the ground up. She is well known for her expertise in the area of security metrics and has been a featured speaker at numerous industry conferences.
  
• Patrick Gray, host of the RiskyBusiness Security News Podcast and a renowned international IT security news journalist, will elaborate on the three things that shaped the information security news agenda in 2010: Stuxnet, WikiLeaks and the resulting militarization of the Internet.
  
• Robert Fly, who heads up the Product Security team at salesforce.com will take a look at what it has done to build a security ecosystem around Force.com and the challenges associated with doing so.
  
• Parisa Tabriz, Google's information security engineer, will describe some of the unique approaches Google's information security engineering team takes to help secure Google's wide array of web services, including engineering practices and technologies to address common web security bugs.
  
• Bradley Anstis, VP Technical Strategy at M86 Security will demonstrate how readily available attack toolkits are used and explain how cyber criminals make their money.
  
• Greg Day, Director of Security Strategy, EMEA at McAfee, will examine how such attacks bypass existing security controls and how they can be stopped.
  
• Rik Ferguson, Trend Micro's solutions architect, will discuss 'life after Stuxnet, what businesses should know'.
  
• Haroon Meer, lead researcher of thinkst, an applied research company with a deep focus on information security. He will discuss 'the IT security lies we tell ourselves'.

Other events:

• One-day workshop on governance, risk and compliance in public and private clouds presented by Dan Crisp, Strategic Director, Global of Operational Risk Initiatives at Barclays Bank, Caroline Wong of Zynga and Lynn Terwoerds of the Cloud Security Alliance. The international panel of experts will examine the business and IT processes, which need to be governed in public and private clouds, including the top threats and mitigations with a specific focus on PCI DSS requirements.
  
• Innovative expo area offering hands-on demonstrations of the latest information security solutions from leading global anti-virus and information security vendors.
  
• Community hub where infosec bloggers will congregate.

For more information, go to www.securitysummit.co.za.