Introduction
Legends in information security presented in the Hall of Fame at this year’s Infosecurity Europe. They were each interviewed at the event about their views about the industry.
Hear what they think in the audio podcasts below!
Podcasts
Peter Wood, Member of the ISACA Conference Committee and founder of First Base Technologies
Peter Wood discusses the disturbing trend of IT based attacks facilitated by information garnered through social engineering and the steps that organisations can undertake to reduce their vulnerability to them.
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Bruce Schneier, Founder and CTO, BT Counterpane
Bruce Schneier comments on the future of IT security and the outsourcing of security in the mass market. He talks of the 'psychology of security' and the importance of how people perceive risk in fixing security.
Did you manage to see Bruce Schneier present in the Hall of Fame? If not, see him in the video recording below.
Adam Laurie, Director, The Bunker
Adam Laurie discusses the next big issues in information security and his thoughts on how to get security right - focusing on blue tooth security, access control, PCI and the dangers of RFID Hacking.
Alan Paller, Director of Research, SANS Institute
Alan Paller shares his views on the current state of information security industry, and where information security professionals are getting things right - focusing on application security and how regulation and compliance are used to justify activities.
Howard Schmidt, Security Strategist and former Whitehouse Cyber Security Advisor
Howard Schmidt talks about re-building security infrastructure and the significance of threats to software applications. Drawing on the idea of security being a business problem, he looks at the cost of human error and the importance of businesses and it's people anticipating crime by 'thinking like a criminal'.
Prof Fred Piper, Director of Information Security Group, Royal Holloway
Fred Piper discusses the challenges that the industry faces, drawing on impersonation attacks and the issue of protecting personal data in the authorisation process.
David Blunkett
Other industry podcasts including an interview with David Blunkett are available on the Infosecurity Europe website