LSEC - Leaders in Security

One of the founding fathers of anti-virus, but today more a rare leading expert with an industry wide perspective

25-Jan-2008

Late January, LSEC members and relations were spoiled with a visit by Peter Tippett, Verizon Business’ Vice President of Research and Intelligence; Magnus Nyrstrom RSA’s Technical Director for Europe and Nigel Jones, the Director of the UK KTN Cybersecurity. This special event, unfortunately invitation only, was visited by quite a number of industry experts and enterprise professionals. In special setting, Autoworld Brussels, the theme for the night was set : the future of transportation, and especially the security impacting it. Our Chairman, Prof. Dr. Bart Preneel gave an insight into the future security of our cars, opening and closing, but also the increasing computer intelligence that needs to be made tamper-free in all cases. Dr. Tippett presented the current Verizon Business on Information Society, after a number of mergers and acquisitions of Ubizen, Cybertrust, Baltimore and others to be one of the leading information security organizations worldwide. With Verizon being the largest private owner of the networks that are forming the internet today, it puts them in a rare but extremy valuable position to see what happens on those networks, and from this perspective has the unique position to perform amazing exercises on improving the whole system. Peter Tippett still has not lost his research or medicine roots, and is still clearly
making a lot of sense with some basic rules in this ever growing complexity of systems and structures. A basic rule on risk management allowed him to even get insight from NASA in the number of meteorites that struck cars (or how lucky can you be). The most common shared vision from leaders in the industry in that week was definitely that the Internet can never be secure. So we might as well embrace that idea and work on this.The vision is shared also that Information Security as it is, should enable doing more by pinpointing and solving the weaknesses. RSA’s Magnus presented an interesting perspective on the turmoils of Information Security in relation to the fluctuations of the stock market during the same weeks. An insider’s guide to pick the right battles in technology. Finally Nigel Jones presented the UK’s Knowledge Transfer Network on Cybersecurity, showing that networks of professionals and experts make a lot of sense, and by organizing a series of events and topics to bring those people together, we can jointly make the world more secure. 

Ulrich Seldeslachts 25-Jan-2008