Subject: [mile] BCS update June 5th

From: "David S. Misell" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 00:31:03 +0100

Kathleen, 

Please may I invite anyone with an interest tin the UK to the following even on the 5th of June.
	• Title: SPA-273 - The Defence of Cyberspace: How Collaborative Cyber Situational Awareness Aids Availability
	• Presenters:
		• Patrick Curry (Director, British Business Federation Authority)
		• Neil Hare-Brown (Security Advisor at Blackthorn)
	• Date: Wednesday 5th June 2013
	• Time: 18:30
	• Venue: BCS Davidson Building, 5 Southampton Street, London WC2E 7HA
	• Complimentary sandwiches and refreshments are served from 6pm
	• Download the meeting flyer here!
Synopsis

15 nations, NATO and EU organisations have just completed Multinational Experiment 7 (MNE7) to "ensure access to the Global Commons". The largest activity was around cyberspace.

MNE7's experimentation demonstrated how collaboration across organisations dramatically increased the local and collective ability to deal with threats and incidents, and ensure the normal availability of cyberspace. The participating nations have decided to develop and implement the Information Sharing Framework (ISF) for Collaborative Cyber Situational Awareness (CCSA), and stand up a new organisation to enable this to happen - the Multinational Alliance for CCSA (MACCSA) - involving governments, industry and military.

Patrick Curry will describe the key components in the ISF, how they are being implemented and a bit about the business and regulatory drivers. He will focus on what technologies will be affected and the new enabling technologies already being deployed.

Neil Hare-Brown will present the benefits of implementing IODEF and also talk about the need for an effective incident response process.

Speaker Biographies

Patrick Curry, OBE CEng MIET MBCS is the Director, British Business Federation Authority (BBFA), tasked with enabling the implementation of federated identity & access management, including employee authentication, across industry and with UK Government and other governments. He is involved in development of the international and national policies and standards. He is the co-editor on ISO 29003 – Identity Proofing & Verification, and also participates in the European Commission DG HOME Expert Group on ID Fraud and ID Management. He is supporting the formation of the Multinational Alliance for Collaborative Cyber Situational Awareness (MACCSA), which involves companies and governments from 30+ nations.

Patrick has a background in military information management, identity management and international secure collaboration. He has held senior roles in a range of information and identity-centric management initiatives across UK government and international aerospace and defence sectors, including homeland security and the UK National Identity Scheme. He was instrumental in the establishment of federated trust mechanisms for US/UK/Europe secure collaboration for aerospace and defence, founding the Transatlantic Secure Collaboration Program (TSCP) and helping to found the CertiPath PKI Bridge. He has worked in UK government organisations and with European agencies and the US and Canadian Governments.

Neil Hare-Brown has spent his career in the field of Information Security and Investigation. He founded Blackthorn (formerly QCC) in 1996 with John Austen, founder of the Met. Computer Crime Unit.

With a technical background specializing in the security of operating systems and security components, Neil has worked in Financal Services at Natwest as an IS Auditor and as Chief Information Security Officer at Charterhouse Bank. In the last 17 years he has concentrated on support for law enforcement in the investigation of computer crime for the Police, Government and Global Corporates.

Neil has grown Blackthorn as a leader in Digital Investigations and GRC. He is the architect of the Blackthorn case management platform, and the award-winning CaseNotes solution and is author of Information Security Incident Management - A Methodology. With an MSc in Information Security from Royal Holloway and with a particular interest in a range of risk methodologies, Neil brings a practical approach to managing security incidents.

Pre-registrations

Please sign up using the EventBrite event booking system. Please let me know if you encounter any difficulties.

This will be run with the BCS Software Process Advancement Group . We  also have tandberg unit available should anyone have a suitable Video Bridge, please note timings are UTC/GMT+1

Kind Regards
Dave
David S. Misell MSc (www.isg.rhul.ac.uk) CISSP