Security and Commerce: Why Business Care and What's Happening in Practice
- When?
- Friday 11 March 2011, 10:00 to 12:00
- Where?
- 39BB02
- Open to:
- Staff, Students
- Speaker:
- Mr Alan Woodward, Director, Charteris
A brief introduction into why IT security has become increasingly important to businesses over recent years: what has driven the increasing use of IT in transactional business and why this has caused a focus on security. We will also discuss the type of threats that business is aware of and what it is they believe they are responding to. This we will use as the backdrop to describing some of the worst “real” incidents and how these might differ from the threat that business was preparing to meet. We will then go on to talk about how software vendors view IT security and how this is driving their efforts to secure their products. This will focus primarily on the approach that Microsoft have taken over recent years.
Alan Woodward is Chief Technology Officer and Head of Commercial at Charteris plc. Charteris is an AIM-listed business and IT consultancy delivering a range of specialised capabilities and solutions that enable organisations to transform business performance through the strategic application of technology. With over 25 years experience of technical and business management in the IT industry and working for the UK government, Alan has covered a very wide range of applications using the latest IT, often working at the “bleeding edge” of the technology. He has experience of rapidly growing businesses both through organic development and mergers and acquisitions. He has also managed some very large and complex IT projects, including project and commercial turnarounds. His work has seen him elected as a Fellow and Chartered member of institutions including the British Computer Society, the Institute of Physics and the Royal Statistical Society.