Cyber Security Threat Landscape and Microsoft Strategy

When?

Wednesday 25 January 2012, 15:30 to 16:30

Where?

39 BB 02

Open to:

Public, Staff, Students

Speaker:

Stuart Aston, Chief Security Advisor, Microsoft UK Ltd

Stuart will talk about Microsoft’s outlook and strategy regarding the cyber space challenges:

• The evolving nature of cyber threats and the strategic response picture from a Microsoft perspective.
• Technology challenges - trusted networks, mobile data, 'app' proliferation, and how new technology may lead to new vulnerabilities.
• What organisations can do better to protect themselves (in common areas of failure).

Biography

Stuart has been with Microsoft since 1998 and is the Chief Security Advisor for Microsoft in the UK. Before his role as CSA he has worked as strategy consultant to a variety of UK Government customers, mostly within the defence arena and run a number of Government Programs with the UK including the Government Security Program, the Security Co-Operation Program and the Welsh Language Program. He still continues to run the UK GSP and SCP programs today.

Before joining Microsoft, Stuart worked as a consultant for ICL in their Power of 4 Consultancy, mostly focused in the defence and government spaces, prior to ICL he worked for Barclays Bank in a number of application development and IT infrastructure roles. He has been actively involved in computer security related activities since the early 1980's.