Pathfinder - Information Security as a Business Enabler?

The information security industry is alive with jargon, fear inducing stories and excitable vendors desperate to get hold of your budget. But how can you cut through the hype and get quality products and services that deliver business value and form part of a strategic solution, capable of supporting your ambitions? This session will paint a picture of the current information security threat landscape from an objective, dispassionate viewpoint and provide you with the key questions to ask vendors and suppliers. It will help you understand the realities of topics including mobile device risks, cybercrime, cyber warfare and the protection of your intellectual property. It should provide you with valuable thinking time and a chance to step back and take stock of what you are trying to achieve by securing your business.

The information security industry is alive with jargon, fear inducing stories and excitable vendors desperate to get hold of your budget. But how can you cut through the hype and get quality products and services that deliver business value and form part of a strategic solution, capable of supporting your ambitions? This session will paint a picture of the current information security threat landscape from an objective, dispassionate viewpoint and provide you with the key questions to ask vendors and suppliers. It will help you understand the realities of topics including mobile device risks, cybercrime, cyber warfare and the protection of your intellectual property. It should provide you with valuable thinking time and a chance to step back and take stock of what you are trying to achieve by securing your business.

When and Where?

Wednesday 19 October, 9:50 AM - 10:20 AM

Theatre: Security & Governance

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Nigel Stanley
(Practice Leader) Bloor Research

Nigel Stanley is a specialist in business technology and IT security and now heads up Bloor’s IT Security practice. For a number of years Nigel was technical director of a leading UK Microsoft partner where he lead a team of consultants and engineers providing secure business IT solutions. This included data warehouses, client server applications and intelligent web based solutions. Many of these solutions required additional security due to their sensitive nature. From 1995 until 2003 Nigel was a Microsoft regional director, an advisory role to Microsoft Corporation in Redmond, which was in recognition of his expertise in Microsoft technologies and software development tools. Nigel had previously worked for Microsoft as a systems engineer and product manager specialising in databases and developer technologies. He was active throughout Europe as a leading expert on database design and implementation. He has written three books on database and development technologies including Microsoft .NET. He is working on a number of business-led IT assignments and is a principal consultant with Incoming Thought Limited, a partner company to Bloor Research that specialises in security consultancy and education. Nigel is a member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, the British Computer Society and the Institute of Directors.