BREAKFAST DISCUSSION: CYBERSECURITY - September 2013, PRA Office Brisbane
Please join us for a new PRA’s breakfast discussion led by Dr. Tim Redhead - Director DotSec, Dot com Security as he shares insights on today’s organisations digital security – or lack of.
Over the past few years, the net has been awash with examples of organisations that have been extensively compromised without a trace, sometimes for years at a time. Whatever the origin of the attack, from the star employee who arranged VPN connectivity to unknown overseas third-parties, to the top-of-the-line security contracting company that now does not exist, the consequences are the same: extensive, sometimes near-total, exfiltration of core assets and IP.
During the presentation, enjoy a healthy catered breakfast and find out options and solutions to a growing number of digital security attacks. The reporting examples used during the presentation will be relevant, whether your information infrastructure is hosted in-house, with some kind of hosting/cloud provider, or a combination of both. In addition, a real-time event management and alerting services will run in the background, providing live feedback on incidents that are occurring while the presentation is taking place.
Dr Tim Redhead
established and now directs the operations of DotSec, an expert information-security company based in Brisbane, Australia. DotSec provides specialist information-security design, integration and testing, as well managed security services, to clients in the finance, legal, investment, banking, education, transport and government (local, state and federal) sectors.
Prior to establishing DotSec in 1999, Tim led the operations of the security group at the Distributed Systems Technology Centre, a cooperative research centre that operated between 1992 and 2006.
Tim received his PhD in computer science from the University of Queensland in 1997, after being awarded first class honours in computer science from James Cook University.
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