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ITWeb’s Security
Summit 2010 is THE South African event of choice in the information security
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 Deadline
for submissions: Friday 11 December 2009
PRESENTATION FOCUS AREAS
This year we are looking for presentations that address the following
topics under our three track areas. The list of topics is suggestive of the
types of presentations for consideration, but by no means restrictive to
these specific areas.
Please note that preference will be
given to case studies. Presentations with a marketing or product bias
will be considered but only for the vendor track. |
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Management Track - How
to manage the business of security |
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• Big Brother - 1984 vs. now. Privacy is dead? Personal freedoms in an
ephemeral age
• Secure development maturity models
• Managing security in federated environments such as government
• Psychology of risk
• Compliance: PCI, security management, standards, regulation
• Cyber warfare and cyber terror
• Vulnerability management
• Managing the insider threat in complex environments
• Security data in South Africa - incidents, fraud, vulnerabilities,
breaches, etc.
• The 'New School' - security and economics, psychology, metrics, etc
• The Turing Test - knowing who's 'real' on the Internet
• Attack methodologies - what’s new and how do we defend ourselves?
• Developing security skills and awareness |
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Technical track – Key threats and how to respond |
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• Personal online
security: the evolution of malware and trojans
• Security impact of Web 2.0 and social
networks
• Security in the Cloud
• Mobile/Wireless security
• Communications security - security on GSM, satellites, backbone
networks and broadcast media
• Uses and failings of cryptography and crypto systems
• SCADA systems and critical infrastructure
• RFID security - uses and flaws
• Security in virtualised environments
• Web application security
• SSL is dead. Long live SSL
• Security in software development |
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Vendor track - The
latest solutions demonstrated |
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• Windows 7 and OSX Snow
Leopard
• New warfare technologies: UAV, drones, robotics, etc.
• Industrial espionage: laser tapping of conversations, bugging
cellphones, tracking individuals, etc.
• Security below the OS - BIOS, embedded devices, CPU, Kernel
rootkits,
Ring 0 Trojans, virtualisation rootkits |
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and the interest to present at this conference is very high, please submit
your proposal as soon as possible to maximise your chance of being
accepted. Please note that preference will be
given to end-user case studies or joint vendor/user presentations. |
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| SPEAKER APPLICATION
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Presentation
descriptions should be no more than 200 words. Please indicate which
theme and topic you are submitting your summary for. |
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The
presentation description will be used by the speaker selection
committee for selection purposes and, if selected, an edited version
of this text will be used in the conference programme. |
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As the
conference approaches, we will request additional information about
your proposal as deemed necessary. |
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Prior to the
event you may be contacted by one of the ITWeb journalists for
comment. Please make time to respond to any questions they have for
you. |
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| SPEAKER SELECTION
PROCESS |
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Selection of
papers will be made by the speaker selection committee, which includes
industry association representatives and ITWeb. The committee’s
decision is final. |
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Speakers will
be selected on the basis of subject interest, topicality, relevance to
the above themes and topics, speaker experience and the quality of the
abstract submitted. |
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The speaker
selection committee will review the proposals and send acceptance
notifications to the speakers by 16 January 2010. |
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Presentations
with a marketing, vendor or product bias will be considered but only
for the vendor track in the exhibition area. |
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IMPORTANT INFORMATION
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The deadline for submission of proposals is midnight on
Friday, 11 December 2009. No late submissions will be accepted.
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For inquiries regarding presentation submissions, please contact
the ITWeb Events Manager, Ros Creamer, on +27 (0)11 807 3294 or
e-mail to
ros@itweb.co.za. |
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Organisers of the conference do not provide fees for conference
speakers. However, all presenters whose talks are accepted will
receive free registration for the conference. |
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Speakers will be obliged to use a customised presentation
template designed for this event. |
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Presentations in the main conference tracks will be 40 minutes
in duration, but please allow 10 minutes for questions from the
audience. Vendor track presentations will be 30 minutes in
duration. |
Please submit a short (no longer than 200 word summary) of your
presentation proposal together with your contact details by the
deadline to Ros Creamer, Events Manager,
ros@itweb.co.za |
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TECHNICAL PROGRAMME ADVISORS: SENSEPOST |
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 ITWeb
is pleased to announce that we will be working again with SensePost
to evaluate the presentation submissions and formulate the
programme. Sensepost is an independent company specialising
exclusively in Information Security. The company was founded in 2000
by internationally recognised industry experts and has become one of
the foremost Information Security consultancies in the world market.
Sensepost’s vision is to use premier people, leading-edge technology
and progressive thinking to provide Information Security services
that add value to business. |
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