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 Ed Gibson
Mr. Gibson is the Chief Security Advisor for Microsoft Ltd, in the UK. His primary role is to serve as an advisor to Microsoft's customers, and the public, on the work Microsoft is doing to improve the security of its products. This role comes on the heels of his retirement from a 20-year career as a Supervisory Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). During this period, Gibson was a recognized expert in investigating complex, international money laundering schemes, asset identification and confiscation, and intellectual property theft. While assigned to FBI Headquarters, Washington, DC, Mr. Gibson developed and managed an operational training program for all Special Agents and executive management, in money laundering and asset confiscation investigations. From early 2000 - mid 2005, Mr. Gibson was assigned to the FBI's Legal Attache office, US Embassy London, as an Assistant Legal Attache. There, he was responsible for all FBI cyber, hi-tech, cyber-terrorism, and infrastructure investigations in the UK. His leadership resulted in the creation of a model cyber program adopted by all Legal Attache offices around the world. Mr. Gibson was a corporate lawyer for a US based multinational corporation for five years prior to the FBI. While assigned to the US Embassy, he qualified as a Solicitor in England and Wales, and completed a two-year computing program at Oxford University. He is a Member of the Board of the John Grieve Centre for Policing and Community Safety, in England.
More Information about Ed is available here:
http://www.sustainability.com/insight/article.asp?id=360.
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