Calyx are hosting their Security Seminar on April the 23rd in the Burlington Hotel.  I have been invited to be the first speaker of the day and will be discussing “Emerging Threats in Security: challenges and statistics for 2009”.   Given the rapidly changing economic and information security landscapes my challenge will be to highlight the relevant items in my talk.

The seminar boasts an interesting line-up and will focus on the following topics:

• Cloud computing
• The changing nature of threats
• Virtualisation in the context of Information Security
• Intrusion prevention
• Managed services
• Cost savings for IT departments

Agenda

9.45 – 10.00 Registration, tea & coffee

10.00 – 10.05 Welcome & introduction by Calyx Security

10.05 – 10.30 “Emerging Threats in Security: challenges and statistics for 2009”, Brian Honan, BH Consulting

10.30 – 10.55 “Optimising security in a changing threat landscape”, Jonny Wilkinson, Websense

10.55 – 11.20 “Security in virtualised data centre”, Owen Cole, Technical Director, F5

11.20 – 11.35 Tea & coffee break

11.35 – 12.00 “Three Dimensional Network Security: Know your network better than your enemy does”, Leon Ward, Senior Security Engineer, Sourcefire Inc.

12.00 – 12.25 “Leveraging Security as a Service to cope with the current global economic slowdown”, Ray McArdle, Sales Engineer, Trend Micro

12.25 – 12.45 “Cloud compliance: How to manage SaaS risk”, John Ryan, General Manager, Calyx Security

12.45 – 13.00 Panel session

13.00 – 14.00 Buffet lunch

It is free to attend the seminar and if you are interested you can register by either emailing securityevents@calyxgroup.com or call 01-205 9650.