Anytime, Anywhere, Active Computing Security in the 21st century

<!--HTML--><b>Cybercrime, cyberterrorism - what can be done about these growing threats? A unique perspective from the world of banking and finance</b><br><br>In this talk, I will take a holistic view of IT security, and describe how cyberspace is becoming a new dimension for organized crime and asymmetric warfare, where extremists and criminals are moving. Understanding this global trend is essential to preparing IT security for the future. mi2g is a digital risk specialist for leading banking and financial institutions which has built the world’s largest digital attack database, tracking over 7500 hacking groups and monitoring in real time Internet hacker and malware attacks around the world. This gives us a unique perspective on the darker side of the Internet. I will illustrate some of the worrying trends we are observing in cyberspace, and comment on their relationship to trends in the real world.<br> <br>Beyond technical fixes to malware attacks, I will argue that there is an urgent need for organisations and nations to construct Total Information Awareness Systems and Knowledge Management Analysis Systems, to combat the rising tide of cybercrime and cyberterrorism. I will make the case for the creation of Regional Security Organisations, similar to the WHO’s regional programmes for human health, to neutralize emerging dangers. Finally, I will propose that “any dynamic computing matrix, however large, is our secure computing environment or none is”, and elaborate on what this proposition means for active computing security in the future.<br> <br>Speaker bio: DK Matai is an engineer turned entrepreneur and philanthropist with a keen interest in the well being of global society. He founded mi2g in 1995 in London, UK, while completing his Ph.D. at Imperial College. The company focuses on digital banking, digital risk management and bespoke security architecture for major financial institutions, government agencies and multinationals in Europe America and Asia. mi2g won the Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the category of innovation in 2003. DK Matai helped found ATCA, the Asymmetric Threats Contingency Alliance, in 2001, a philanthropic initiative to understand and address complex global changes. DK Matai worked previously in the R&D labs of IBM, Inmos, ST Microelectronics and Helvar Electrosonic on massive parallel processing and supercomputing applications.<br> <BR><I>More information: <a href=http://computing-colloquia.web.cern.ch/computing-colloquia/upcoming.html#dk>http://computing-colloquia.web.cern.ch/computing-colloquia/upcoming.html#dk</a></I>