The seminar held in Dublin during Global Security Week based on the theme “Privacy in the 21st Century” was a resounding success. We had excellent key note speakers;

Tony Delaney, Assistant Commissioner, Office of the Data Protection Commissioner

Caspar Bowden, Chief Privacy Advisor EMEA, Microsoft.

The following are copies of the presentations in PDF format;

Seminar Introduction – Brian Honan ( 353KB) and the Pizza Privacy movie played during this talk is also available.

A Presentation of Data Protection – Office of the Data Protection Commissioner ( 84KB)  by Tony Delaney, Assistant Commissioner, Office of the Data Protection Commissioner highlighted a lot of the items companies operating within Ireland need to consider with regards to Data Protection.  Tony showed a video “My Data – Your Business?” demonstrating the common mistakes companies make with regards to Data Protection.  The video is available at the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner’s website.  Alternatively you can get a copy of the video by writing to the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner or by emailing info@dataprotection.ie.

Privacy and the PCI DSS Data Standard – Mathieu Gorge ( 5.5 MB)

Privacy and the ISO 27001 Information Security Standard – Brian Honan ( 538KB)

The occassion was also used to call on the Irish Government to implement Data Security Breach Disclosure Laws in Ireland.

We would like to thank once again the speakers who contributed to the seminar and also to those who attended and took part in the panel discussion towards the end.