LSEC - Leaders in Security

Introduction

A paper by our our partner KTN Cybersecurity in the UK, described a summary of the current status of science on the economics of information security.
During this seminar, LSEC wanted to support the development of Information Security professionals and experts by providing them with a number of basics on the organization of their information security projects.

During this seminar, the focus was not on technology sales, but principles that help getting an understanding of the economical drivers for information security technologies and projects.
This seminar was part of LSEC’s contributions to the Global Security Week in Belgium, and effort to raise the awareness on all levels and throughout the business community on the needs for information security in the world.
Part of this afternoon seminar was the panel discussion, intended to have an interactive session and discuss past, current and future challenges in your organization in getting your project to
a next successful level.

Program

14.10 : Keynote : Summary of the Information Security Economics workshop of the KTN - David Pym, HP Labs, Principal Scientist

About David Pym : Principal Scientist in the Systems Security Lab (SSL) at HP Labs, Bristol (HPLB) is also
Professor of Logic & Computation at the University of Bath, where he has led the development of the
Mathematical Foundations research group. Prior to joining HP Labs’ permanent staff, he was a Royal Society
Industry Fellow at HPLB. Prior to moving to Bath, he was Professor of Logic at the University of London,
where he also held an EPSRC Advanced Fellowship. In SSL, he works on mathematical systems and security
modelling, using algebraic, logical, stochastic techniques, and services sciences. He leads an HP Labs project –
‘Trust Economics’ – on systems and security modelling and the economics of information security. Degrees:
MA in mathematics (King’s College, Cambridge), PhD in mathematical theory of computation (University of
Edinburgh), FBCS, CITP, FIMA, CMath, CSci.

15.15 Georges Ataya, Professor - Solvay Business School : Information Security as part of Information Management Business Drivers

17.30 Richard Clayton, Department of Computer Sciences - Cambridge University: Emerging threats in the European Union and economical impacts

18.30 Panel Discussion :

Experiences and Best Practices in getting your plan and project presented to management
Benchmarking and metrics
Return on Investment principles
Security Management : standalone or integrated in wider risk management, it management, ...
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