PRESS RELEASE: Security Bigwigs to Deliver Keynote at HITB Security Conference in Amsterdam

PRESS RELEASE

Company: Hack In The Box / HITBSecConf

Date of Issue: 1st March 2013

Release Summary: Chief Information Security Officer for RSA, Edward Schwartz and Director of Information Security at Twitter, Bob Lord, will keynote the 4th annual HITB Security Conference in Amsterdam on the 10th and 11th of April.

URL: http://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2013ams/press-release-keynote-rsa-twitter

Security Bigwigs to Deliver Keynote at HITB Security Conference in Amsterdam

Amsterdam, 1 March: Edward Schwartz, Chief Information Security Officer at global information security giant, RSA, will be delivering his Day 1 keynote address on “Embracing the Uncertainty of Advanced Attacks with Big Data Analytics“ at the annual HITB Security Conference in Amsterdam on the 10th of April. The following Day 2 keynote address will be delivered by Bob Lord, Director of Information Security at Twitter who will speak on “Rethinking the Front Lines”.

Taking place at the Okura Hotel Amsterdam, this year’s 2-day, triple-track HITBSecConf Amsterdam will also play host to over 30 of the world’s top computer security experts and is expected to attract hundreds of attendees from around the globe.

With organized criminals, nation-state groups and hacktivists continuing to wreak havoc within organizations of all sizes in spite of their security teams’ best efforts, organizations today must face unknown and unexpected attacks when there is a legacy over-reliance on antiquated incident management processes. Join Edward Schwartz as he discusses how big data approaches can reduce uncertainty to succeed against advanced adversaries by transforming four critical aspects of any security program.

On the morning of the 11th, Bob Lord, Director of Information Security at Twitter, will take the stage, sharing some experimental results of Twitter’s efforts to reconnect with their user base. Many security professionals view their users as a lost cause. Between bad passwords, phishing, and lost machines, users seem to present unbounded risk. Join Bob as he also shares his thoughts on how we as an industry can rethink this problem to take back the front lines.

Registration for HITBSecConf2013 – Amsterdam is already open with prices for the 2-day conference increasing after the 20th of March. For further details and the full speaker list,  please see http://conference.hitb.org/

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HITB Security Conference or HITBSecConf is a community-backed, not-for-profit series of security conferences held annually in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The annual series has also previously been held in the Middle East with conferences in Bahrain and Dubai. The main aim of HITBSecConf is to enable the dissemination, discussion and sharing of deep knowledge network security information with a focus on groundbreaking attack and defense methods. HITBSecConf is endorsed by the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC), Malaysian National Computer Confederation (MNCC), Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC), MSC Malaysia and the Malaysian International Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MICCI). Our local partner in The Netherlands is ITQ.

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