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| Andrew Barrett |
| nice to have Ed Gibson speak. He was very motivational and had lots of interesting anecdotes … |
| anon |
| Talk by Mr Gibson on security was a highlight; he has excellant speaking skills. |
| Jenni Philips |
| The lunch time talk from Ed Gibson was great |
| Howard van Rooijen |
| Ed Gibson's talk was really impressive. |
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Gibson "on the road" |
We are proud to announce the 'Ed Gibson "On The Road"' Events which will take place
mid-Septermber to mid-October 2006 at 5 venues around the country. The aim of the
events are to raise awareness of the issues surrounding computer security, specifically
Organised Crime and Hacking and also to raise the awareness amongst the Business
and Developer communities of Developer and IT Pro User Groups and how they can help
instruct and inform developers and managers about new technologies and other issues
such as security.
The headline speaker is Ed Gibson the new Chief Security Advisor for Microsoft UK.
Ed is an ex-FBI agent and delivers a fascinating talk on his experiences and views
on security in the IT world and how to combat organised crime on the Internet.
Other speakers from the likes of Oracle will offer alternative or differing views
on computer security and the event will end with an hour long 'panel discussion'
with question and answers.
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| Ed Gibson (All Venues) |
Chief Security Adviser (CSA), Microsoft |
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Ed Gibson is the Chief Security Advisor for Microsoft Ltd, in the UK. His primary role is to serve as an advisor to Microsoft’s customers, and the public, on the work Microsoft is doing to improve the security of its products. This role comes on the heels of his retirement from a 20-year career as a Supervisory Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). During this period, Gibson was a recognized expert in investigating complex, international money laundering schemes, asset identification and confiscation, and intellectual property theft. While assigned to FBI Headquarters, Washington, DC, Ed Gibson developed and managed an operational training program for all Special Agents and executive management, in money laundering and asset confiscation investigations.
From early 2000 – mid 2005, Ed Gibson was assigned to the FBI’s Legal Attache office, US Embassy London, as an Assistant Legal Attaché. There, he was responsible for all FBI cyber, hi-tech, cyber-terrorism, and infrastructure investigations in the UK. His leadership resulted in the creation of a model cyber program adopted by all Legal Attache offices around the world.
Ed Gibson was a corporate lawyer for a US based multinational corporation for five years prior to the FBI. While assigned to the US Embassy, he qualified as a Solicitor in England and Wales, and completed a two-year computing program at Oxford University. He is a Member of the Board of the John Grieve Centre for Policing and Community Safety, in England.
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| Dinis Cruz (Birmingham, London, Leeds) |
Open Web Application Security Project |
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Dinis Cruz is an experienced security consultant based in London (UK) and specialized in: ASP.NET Application Security, Active Directory deployments, Application Security audits and .NET Security Curriculum Development. Dinis is also the current Project Leader for the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) (http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Main_Page) and the main developer of several OWASP tools.
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| Duncan Harris (Edinburgh) |
Senior Director of Security, Oracle |
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Duncan Harris is senior director of security assurance at Oracle, responsible for all product security vulnerability handling, for Oracle's internal ethical hacking team, for formal product security evaluations such as Common Criteria and FIPS 140, and for defining, educating, evangelising and ensuring compliance to internal secure development standards. He provides broad security advice to Oracle's information security, legal, HR, marketing, PR, internal audit and physical security divisions, and take an active role in defining new direction for security in Oracle's core database and application server products, based on the weaknesses and vulnerabilities his team and real world hackers identify and expose. Duncan notably constructed the technical proof behind Oracle's “Unbreakable” marketing campaign.
Over his 13 years at Oracle, he has also been the product manager for Trusted Oracle7, Oracle's B1 multilevel secure database, now replaced by Oracle Label Security, and he has been involved with all Oracle's security evaluations. Prior to Oracle, he worked as a UK government security evaluator and on various UK classified systems.
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| Barry Dorrans (Birmingham) |
Charteris |
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Barry Dorrans has spent 15 years cutting code, starting with mainframes, through DOS, Visual C and MFC before finally ending up on the .net platform. His experience has ranged from architecting and developing banking systems, reviews of government networks, developing secure intranets for various government departments, to building Europe's largest streaming network and introducing DRM for promotional materials for artists such as Robbie Williams, Kylie Minogue and The Cheeky Girls.
He now provides expert witness services, design, development and mentoring with Charteris plc.
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| Chris Seary (London) |
Charteris |
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Chris Seary works as a Senior Developer for an IT and management consultancy, Charteris plc(http://www.charteris.com). He has worked with many different Microsoft technologies, and for the last few years has specialised in the security aspects of enterprise-level .NET systems.
He regularly contributes to forums, writes articles and white papers, and has a blog devoted (mainly) to IT security (http://blog.searyblog.com/). The views contained in this article are Chris's, which are not necessarily representative of Charteris.
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| Alun Rogers (Cambridge) |
Risual |
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Alun Rogers (MVP, MCSE, MCSE +Messaging, MCSE +Security) has been working with computers since University in 1992, and developed his skills first as a systems engineer focusing on UNIX systems, including SunOS, HPUX, VMS, and various proprietary Unix derivates from NCR and Motorola, before moving to Red Hat Linux and Windows NT in the mid to late 90’s. Alun now works exclusively with Microsoft technologies and has a passion for all Microsoft infrastructure products “as long as I get to secure it properly” with particular focus for Security products in the Forefront brand such as ISA Server.
“Security has always interested me as an area as it is the discipline which is the most rewarding, ultimately leading to well tuned, high performing, and of course secure systems. Security isn’t necessarily complex it just needs a methodical approach to assess the risks and a pragmatic approach to ensuring that all vulnerabilities are mitigated against.”
Alun works as Technical Director at Risual, a privately owned Microsoft Systems Integrator. Risual are a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and specialise in Security, Management and Infrastructure Solutions. He is very active in the Microsoft community speaking at various Microsoft events, NxtGenUG, and various events around the country.
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| Matt Moore (Leeds) |
Oracle |
| Matt Moore runs Oracle's Security Assessment team, joining Oracle in September 2004, and has over 10 years experience in the field of Software Security. Matt is responsible for security testing within Oracle, and works closely with global Development and QA teams to help them produce secure code. Matt's team is also involved in Security Design Reviews, Risk Assessment and Developer training education work. In previous roles Matt was a Penetration Tester Security Researcher and has worked with many diverse vendors (e.g. Microsoft, Sun, IBM, HP) to resolve security vulnerabilities in their products. Matt was also a frequent contributor to the open source Nessus Vulnerability Scanner project (www.nessus.org), developing plugins for newly discovered security flaws.. Matt will be taking part in the 'Panel Discussion'section of the event. |
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| About NxtGenUG |
| NxtGenUg has been created by 3 evangelists of Microsoft technology to help developers stay ahead of the game. Find out a bit more about us here |
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| About Scottish Developers |
| Scottish Developers is a not for profit community of software professionals from a range of organisations and backgrounds. Find out more about Scottish Developers here |
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