We live in a digital world and a networked society. The Impact of instantaneous digital text and voice communications on decision making in MNC's is profound. What organizations know about their customers, their business and even themselves matters because information has a significant economic value. And yet, the increasing complexity of information technology and the connecting networks is the very enemy of the security needed to protect vital information and the economic value it represents.

Bruce Schneier examines the trends in information assurance security exploding some of the surrounding secrets & lies whilst explaining the trends in personal and corporate internet security. This talk provides a pragmatic, interesting, and humorous look at the economic principles underpinning 21st Century information technology and what everyone in business needs to know about security in order to survive and be competitive.

Speech - Secrets & Lies: The Economic Value of Information in the 21st Century

Speech - The Psychology of Security

7:30pm - 9:00pm
7:00pm - 7:30pm (Registration)

Lecture Theatre (FJ304), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom
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PISA Members and Invited Organisations/Guests Only
Limited seats. First-come-first-serve.

Mr. Bruce Schneier

Bruce Schneier is CTO with BT Global Services ad founder of internet security company BT Counterpane, and is an internationally renowned security technologist and author. Described by The Economist as a "security guru," Schneier is best known as a refreshingly candid and lucid security critic and commentator. When people want to know how security really works, they turn to Schneier. His first bestseller, Applied Cryptography, explained how the arcane science of secret codes actually works, and was described by Wired as "the book the National Security Agency wanted never to be published." His book on computer and network security, Secrets and Lies, was called by Fortune "[a] jewel box of little surprises you can actually use." His current book, Beyond Fear, tackles the problems of security from the small to the large: personal safety, crime, corporate security, national security.

Schneier also publishes a free monthly newsletter, Crypto-Gram, with over 130,000 readers. In its seven years of regular publication, Crypto-Gram has become one of the most widely read forums for free-wheeling discussions, pointed critiques, and serious debate about security. As head curmudgeon at the table, Schneier explains, debunks, and draws lessons from security stories that make the news. Regularly quoted in the media, Schneier has written op ed pieces for several major newspapers, and has testified on security before the United States Congress on many occasions. Bruce Schneier is the founder and CTO of BT Counterpane, the world's leading protector of networked information -- the inventor of outsourced security monitoring and the foremost authority on effective mitigation of emerging IT threats.