The Irish Computer Society and the ICS Privacy Forum is delighted to announce that Chief Security Technology Officer of BT, Bruce Schneier will be speaking via video link from California at the 2nd Annual Data Protection Conference.  The conference which is on 25th March at the Radison BLU Hotel, Golden Lane, Dublin 8 will look at topics surrounding Data Retention and Data Security.

The topic covered by Schneier will be “The Future of the Security Industry”. 

Overview of Presentation:

In this he will describe how IT is rapidly becoming a commodity.  More companies are outsourcing their IT infrastructure -- treating it as a service more like electricity, office cleaning, or tax preparation -- and this has profound implications for IT security.  Organisational users care less about the technical details of security.  Products and services change their focus from the end user to the outsourcer.  Industry consolidation results, as non-security IT infrastructure companies seek to bolster their security credentials.  Even the profession changes, as jobs move from individual organizations to the outsourcing companies, and in some cases overseas.  This talk looks at the future of IT security in a mature IT infrastructure industry. 

About Bruce Schneier

Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist and author. Described by The Economist as a "security guru," he is best known as a refreshingly candid and lucid security critic and commentator. When people want to know how security really works, they turn to Schneier.   
His first bestseller, Applied Cryptography, explained how the arcane science of secret codes actually works, and was described by Wired as "the book the National Security Agency wanted never to be published."  His book on computer and network security, Secrets and Lies, was called by Fortune "[a] jewel box of little surprises you can actually use."

Beyond Fear tackles the problems of security from the small to the large: personal safety, crime, corporate security, national security.  His current book, Schneier on Security, offers insight into everything from the risk of identity theft (vastly overrated) to the long-range security threat of unchecked presidential power and the surprisingly simple way to tamper-proof elections.

Regularly quoted in the media, he has testified on security before the United States Congress on several occasions and has written articles and op eds for many major publications, including The New York Times, The Guardian, Forbes, Wired, Nature, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Boston Globe, The San Francisco Chronicle, and The Washington Post.
Schneier also publishes a free monthly newsletter, Crypto-Gram, with over 150,000 readers. In its ten years of regular publication, Crypto-Gram has  become one of the most widely read forums for free-wheeling discussions, pointed critiques, and serious debate about security.

As head curmudgeon at the table, Schneier explains, debunks, and draws lessons from security stories that make the news.  Blog is also available by visiting www.schneier.com 

To book a place at this years conference or www.ics.ie/dpconf

Agenda available very soon.