e-Security
e-Security
Wednesday 18 June
Speaker: Ed Gibson Chief Security Adviser, Microsoft Ltd, UK
One talk, three venues:
Microsoft, 127 George Street at 8 am
Biggart Baillie, 2 Lochrin Square, 96 Fountainbridge at 12.45 pm
Baillie Gifford, Calton Square, 1 Greenside Row at 5.30pm
To read the report on this talk click here.
About our speaker:
Ed Gibson serves as the senior adviser to Microsoft's customers, partners, government bodies and the public on how to best respond to the current security environment - from internal leakage of intellectual property to best practices for online cyber security. He is the link between Microsoft and industry specialists, law enforcement, government and academia, facilitating the sharing of security knowledge between these groups.
Prior to this role, Ed Gibson gained experience and knowledge through a 20-year career as a Special Agent with the FBI. During that period, he was a recognised expert in investigating international money laundering and fraud schemes, economic espionage, and intellectual property theft. From 2000 to 2005, he was assigned to the American Embassy in London where he served as the FBI's Assistant Legal Attaché in the UK and Ireland. During this period he was responsible for all FBI hi-tech and looked into: Internet extortion; blackmail; cyber terrorism; intellectual property theft; crimes against children; and infrastructure protection investigations.
At the very start of his career, he served for five years as an in-house lawyer for a multi-national corporation based in the USA. He is a qualified Solicitor in England and Wales, has completed a 2-year computing programme at Oxford, serves on several technology association steering committees and advisory boards, and is a Fellow of the British Computer Society.
Introduction to his talk:
Despite the mutating threats of cyber attacks, online extortion and spam, a well-structured information security strategy can safeguard you and your business and ensure that risks are managed well. It can also help to reassure your customers, who in the UK for example, according to a recent study, now fear internet crime more than burglary, mugging or car theft. Because the internet is not territorial or jurisdictionally bound, organised crime syndicates based anywhere can try to steal from you and / or your company by extortion, threats and intimidation - not in the world of bricks and mortar but in the online world. Our responses to ‘attacks' may not be as effective as they could be. There are solutions and sometimes they are free. Ed Gibson will give us a peek inside his 'cyber life', using anecdotes from his 20 year career with the FBI. In addition, he will discuss what Microsoft has done and continues to do to help make for a safer computing environment for its customers, and the steps every computer user can take right away to help ensure a safer online experience.