Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 12:48:39 GMT To: tips@spesh.com Subject: LSE Security Colloquia - Spring 1998 LSE CSRC Security Colloquium Advance Notice of Meetings in Spring 1998 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CSRC/LSE Public Security Colloquia Series The Computer Security Research Centre at the London School of Economics runs a series of public colloquia on selected Thursday evenings in Central London. LSE Vera Anstey Room 18:00-19:45 This is the list of currently-planned meetings. We may add to them during the course of the next few weeks ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Thursday February 5 1998 CONTROLLING AND CENSORING THE NET Nick Hutton Security Director, UUnet What are the practical issues of using ISPs as a mechanism for controlling Internet activity? Should ISPs assume any responsibility in this field or simply offer themselves as a technical service? What relationship should ISPs have with law enforcement? Thursday February 12 1998 NEW DIRECTIONS IN BUSINESS CONTINGENCY PLANNING Jim Burtles Corporate Integrity Jim Burtles is one of the founders of BCP consultancy, originally with Safetynet and now with his own training-orientated company and SURVIVE! BCP has recently developed into a sophisticated specialism with its own methodologies and training schemes. He will provide an update Thursday February 19 1998 DATASTREAM AND KUJI: Success and failure in hacker investigations Peter Sommer CSRC/LSE This is the UK hacker case that featured in the 1996 US GAO Report Security in Cyberspace. It featured many new techniques in computer forensics. The speaker, who was the defence expert in the UK criminal case, speculates how successful some of these would have been had they been fully tested in court. (Joint meeting with British Computer Society Law Special Interest Group) Thursday March 5 1998 PUBLIC AND PRIVATE POLICING Graham Saltmarsh Business Crime Group, National Crime Squad The UK's National Crime Squad is due to start operations in April 1998 and will target the most serious of crimes. Graham Saltmarsh who has worked in criminal intelligence at Scotland Yard and NCIS and specialised in organised crime, will discuss the evolving relationship between the police and private security in the form of corporate security directors and the large private security companies Thursday March 12 1998 INFORMATION OPERATIONS / INFORMATION ASSURANCE Jamie MacIntosh Defence Evaluation and Research Agency The world's major Ministries of Defence are increasingly pre-occupied with the notion of Information Warfare. Two particular concerns are pre-eminent: the possibility of attacks on a country's critical infra-structures and how the security services can respond; the use of sophisticated IT systems to support and enhance the armed services. In the UK much of the research work is carried out by DERA and the speaker will report on recent activity Thursday March 19 1998 THE STATISTICS OF COMPUTER FRAUD AND ABUSE Chris Hurford UK Audit Commission For the last 18 years the Audit Commission have been collecting and publishing statistics on computer fraud and abuse. Their reports provide one of the very few reliable sources of data. Chris Hurford will describe the findings of the most recent report (due for publication in February 1998) and also the methodological problems the Commission have encountered ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The purpose of the security colloquia is to allow practitioners and academics the opportunity to discuss current topics in information security at greater depth than is possible within the confines of the regular commercial conference. Practitioners can consider long term trends and review some of the newer ideas emerging from academic research. Academics can discover new concerns emerging within the industry. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Admission is free this academic year, but non-LSE members are asked to notify their intention to attend either by e-mail to P.M.Sommer@lse.ac.uk or by phone to 0171-955 7968. The Vera Anstey Room is located one floor above the LSE's main entrance in Houghton Street, off the Aldwych, London WC2A 2AE ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ |----> Peter Sommer ------------------------------------------->| |----> hcorn@cix.co.uk P.M.Sommer@lse.ac.uk ------------------>| |----> Academic URL: http://csrc.lse.ac.uk/csrc/pmscv.htm ----->| |----> Commercial URL: http://www.virtualcity.co.uk ----------->|
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