The Present and Future of Secure eBusiness
Gregory Young, Research Vice President, Gartner
Brian O'Higgins, Chief Technology Officer, Third Brigade Inc
Date: Wednesday June 20, 2007
Time: 6:00 – 8:30 p.m.
Location: bitHeads, 1309 Carling Ave. (East side of Westgate Mall)
Cost: No-Charge but RSVP to kdaize@ocri.ca
Topic: Self-Defending Computers: From Science Fiction...to Reality
Speaker: Brian O'Higgins, Chief Technology Officer, Third Brigade Inc
The concept of self-defending computers has existed for over a decade. What was once a science fiction-like dream, is becoming increasingly real. IT security has always been an escalating war between defenders and attackers, and now state of the art application attacks easily bypass perimeter defences such as firewalls. And as applications continue to evolve using the latest in Web 2.0 technologies, even more critical vulnerabilities will be exposed and exploited by new attacks.
Topic: Near Future of Network Security
Gregory Young, Research Vice President, Gartner
As new network threats emerge, defenses will evolve and safeguards will change to proactive approaches. New security function “mash-ups” improve security postures without creating resource burdens. This presentation describes the solutions, and looks forward to implementing the Security 3.0 philosophy.
• How are network security threats evolving, and how should enterprises get ahead of them?
• What will network security solutions look like in the next few years?
• What new security products are emerging, and how will existing ones change?
Speaker Bio’s
Gregory Young, Research Vice President, Gartner
Mr. Young has 20 years of IT security experience. He spent his military career in technology security and was head of IT security for the Federal Department of Communications. He received the confederation medal from the Governor General of
Canada
for his work with smartcard security, headed a large security consulting practice, was chief security architect for a security product company and was American Management Systems' (AMS') senior principal and laboratory director for secure e-business.
Brian O'Higgins, Chief Technology Officer, Third Brigade Inc.
Mr. O'Higgins is seasoned professional in the security industry, and is best known for his role in introducing PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) technology and products to the security landscape. He is also a recognized speaker on IT and Internet security. Prior to joining Third Brigade as a member of the founding executive team, Mr. O'Higgins was the co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Entrust, a leading Internet Security company. While at Entrust he had overall responsibility for the technology vision and direction for the company. He was previously with Nortel where he established the Secure Networks group in 1993, and was instrumental in spinning-out this group as an independent company, Entrust.
Prior to this, Mr. O'Higgins was with Bell-Northern Research (BNR) where he was involved in a variety of technology development programs including public key security systems, technology for new telephone products, in-building wireless communications systems and high-performance computing architectures for digital telephone switches.
Mr. O'Higgins' current list of affiliations includes advisory board positions with Defence R&D Canada, Information Technology Association of Canada, Communications and Information Technology
Ontario
,
Algonquin
College
, and the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association. In addition, he currently serves on the boards of Recognia and Fischer International.
