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Monday 26 November 2007:Dr Luke O'Connor, IT Risk Management, Zurich Financial Services Switzerland.Dr Luke O’Connor gave two presentations on “Does IT Security Matter” on 26th and 27th November 2007. Although the topic for both presentations was the same, the slides for each event differ slightly. The slides for these presentations are available below. FIT Industry Seminar, 26th November Abstract In a recent book, Nicolas Carr has argued that IT does not matter since IT has become commoditized, and does share a strategic relationship with business. While Carr's book was widely discussed and critiqued, his thesis was never convincingly dismissed or overturned. This talk will consider the future of IT security under the Carr thesis, and argue that the security function is being subsumed into the larger imperative of IT Risk Management. Biography Luke O’Connor received his PhD from the University of Waterloo in 1992, where his thesis topic was the design and analysis of block ciphers. After working briefly for Certicom (then called Mobius), Dr. O’Connor moved to the Security Group at the Distributed System Technology Centre, Australia, a group that he eventually lead. In 1996 Dr. O’Connor joined the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory (ZRL), Switzerland. He worked on several projects including the IBM submission to Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) program of the US government. Dr. O’Connor filed over 20 patents during this period, on diverse topics including mobile authentication and an efficient method for updating code on a smart card. In 2000 Dr. O’Connor moved to the Unisys European Security Centre of Excellence, concentrating on deploying PKI projects in EMEA, and later focused on PKI consulting for large financial organizations in Zurich as a consultant with IT-Secure. In August 2003 Dr. O’Connor rejoined IBM ZRL to EMEA Security and Privacy micropractice of the On Demand Innovation Services program, an initiative to promote direct interaction between IBM Research and IBM client projects. In 2005 Dr. O’Connor joined the IT Risk management group of Zurich Financial Services, a large Swiss insurance company, where he is responsible for managing operational risks. Monday 22 October 2007:Professor Dr Lutz Heuser, Vice President SAP Research and Chief Development Architect, SAP"The Internet of Services" Biography Professor Dr Lutz Heuser is responsible for the overall research portfolio management and the corporate venturing organisation. His areas of expertise include collaborative business processes; ubiquitous computing and its integration into business applications; blended learning as part of corporate and non-corporate training; as well as security in corporate applications. Professor Heuser joined SAP AG in 1999.Prior to his appointment at SAP AG, he was director of the European Research Organisation at Digital Equipment Corporation and member of the extended executive board of the German subsidiary of Digital Equipment. Professor Heuser serves on the advisory boards of imedia, Providence, FhG-Fokus, Berlin, FhG-IPSI, Darmstadt, and the D-Grid initiative. Professor Heuser is a Visiting Professor at the National University of Paraguay and an Adjunct Professor of the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane. In 2004, he was awarded an Honorary Professorship at the Technical University Darmstadt and in 2006 became a member of acatech: the “Council for Engineering Sciences at the Union of the German Academies of Science and Humanities.” |
