The Microsoft Security Lecture 2007
Title: 'The Computing Environment': It's more than Binary Code, It's About Criminals!
Introductory Talk: Robert
Hogg
Speaker: Ed
Gibson Microsoft Chief Security
Advisor (CSA)
Date: Tuesday
May 1st 2007
Time: 5:30pm coffee
and registration 6:00pm – lecture
Location: School of Computer
Science Kilburn Building: Lecture Theatre 1.1
Oxford Road
Manchester.
About the Lecture
The School was delighted to be working with Microsoft to bring Ed Gibson to the University. Ed, head of security for Microsoft, gave a lecture on his experiences and views on security in the IT world and how to combat organised crime on the Internet.
Synopsis
Despite the mutating threats of cyber attacks, online extortion, or spam, a well-structured information security strategy can safeguard your business and ensure that risks are managed with commitment and understanding. It can also help to reassure your customers, who in the UK (for example) according to a recent study now fear internet crime more than burglary, mugging or car theft. Yet, because the internet is not territorial or jurisdictionally bound, organized crime efforts to steal everything you hold dear by extortion, threats, intimidation - not in the bricks and mortar world but in the online world, our normal responses to 'attack' are not as effective. But there are solutions . . . and sometimes they are free. Ed Gibson will gave a peek inside his 'cyber life' utilizing anecdotes from his 20 year career with the FBI including the most recent 5 years when he was assigned as a Diplomat to the US Embassy London in charge of all the FBI's cyber investigations in the UK, and the reasons he was asked by Microsoft to be its Chief Security Advisor in the UK.
Related links:
- Microsoft Partner Programmes.
- Microsoft Events.
- Microsoft website.
- Microsoft Competitions.
- Microsoft ImagineCup 2007 Finals
