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CSRI to host first webinar challenging the need for full IT encryption

Cyber Security Research Institute (CSRI) to hold webinar including some of the most prominent cyber security academics at the Royal Holloway University on February 9th

Ahead of a forthcoming national TV documentary probing The Cyber Security Research Institute's (CSRI) 'The Ghosts from the machines' report, a team of leading academics and privacy experts will be hosting an exclusive webinar asking "Has the time finally come for encryption to run on all personal computing devices?"

The inaugural webinar on whether encryption should be enabled by default on all storage devices comes in the week that the Commons Science and Technology Committee said malicious software - or "malware" - was a growing threat to the UK as more business was done online.

Filmed live from the Royal Holloway University at 7pm on Thursday (Feb 9th), the webinar will examine the issues raised by the huge amounts of data that users now routinely discard about themselves for the bulk of those using the web, with most individuals not realising just how detailed a picture of themselves they leave behind. Click here to register for this free webinar.

The institute's report named and shamed News International as a firm that threw away an un-wiped hard drive, only for it to be subsequently misused.

According to the Commons Committee, 80% of the steps needed to counter dangerous software such as malware - which is used to access and steal personal information such as bank details - could be regarded as "routine IT hygiene."

Professor Fred Piper, Emeritus Professor Royal Holloway and Owner of Codes & Ciphers Ltd and Simon Davies, Director of Privacy International, will be the keynote speakers arguing that the majority of users do not realise just how detailed a picture of themselves they leave behind online.
A panel of experts (see below), including some of the most prominent cyber security academics, will then flesh out why encryption has not been used to date, why it needs to be used now and what barriers need to be overcome to make it an effective tool.

Panellists:

Bruno Brunskill, company secretary, Information Assurance Advisory Council

Professor Andy Jones, Program Chair for MSc. at Khalifa University, Chief Researcher at BT, Visiting Adjunct Professor at Edith Cowan University

Len Hynds, former head of the UK's first National High Tech Crime Unit

Professor Andrew Blyth, Head of the Information Security Research Group & GSC-CSIRT at the Faculty of Advanced Technology (FAT), University of Glamorgan.

The Webinar, entitled 'ID therefore I am: In the information age has the time finally come for encryption to run on all personal computing devices?', will broadcast live on and also be available as a video and podcast after the event from www.csri.info.

For those who want to attend in person, please email: [email protected].

The event is media-partnered by The Independent.

8th February 2012