The ISF highlights latest security risks and threats at executive briefings across 13 cities and ten countries
The Information Security Forum (ISF) is hosting 13 executive security briefings around the world during October, November and December to raise greater awareness of the risks to information security and emerging threats. These interactive sessions aimed at senior information security and risk executives, will start in Chicago on 9 October and run in New York, Toronto, Charlotte, Atlanta, Mexico City, Paris, Madrid, Munich, London, Sharjah, Mumbai and finish in Pretoria on 6 December.
The Information Security Forum is a not-for-profit international association of over 300 major companies and public sector organisations across 25 countries, including half of the Fortune 100. The ISF is the leading independent authority on information security and has invested more than $100million in delivering practical research, in-depth authoritative reports and advanced methodologies and risk assessment tools.
The events will focus on three main topics. ‘Managing the Complexity of Security – Hints and Tips from the Front Line’ will look at the IT security challenges faced by ISF members and how they have overcome them. The second part, ‘Assessing and Reducing Business Risk’, will explore efficient and cost-effective ways to approach information risk, drawing on the ISF’s extensive research, surveys and methodologies for best practice risk management.
The final session entitled, ‘Where is the Pain?’, is an interactive roundtable discussion about the common information security problems faced by organisations in day-to-day business. This will be driven by attendees so the topics may vary from virtualisation and digital rights management (DRM) to data leakage.
Speakers at the briefings will include Simone Seth and Andy Jones CISSP, leading information risk specialists and senior research consultants with the ISF. Simone Seth has 20 years’ experience with key information security management positions at firms such as JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank and CitiGroup. Andy Jones CISSP also has over 20 years of IT industry experience, holding senior information security positions at a large international airline and Sainsburys.
Many of the briefings are hosted by ISF Members and the full 2007 schedule:
DATE CITY Host
09 October Chicago Motorola
10 October New York Guardian Life
11 October Toronto Bell Canada
16 October Charlotte Transamerica
17 October Atlanta State Farm
19 October Mexico City Scotiabank
06 November Paris Symantec
07 November Madrid BBVA
08 November Munich BT
09 November London BT
14 November Sharjah / UAE In conjunction with MEITSEC 2007
16 November Mumbai
06 December Pretoria
For more information on the ISF Executive Briefings, please visit
www.securityforum.org or call Susan Swope Tel +1 650 474 2628, or email
[email protected].
