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When moving to the use of cloud services it is most important to take a risk based approach. However the process involved is often manual and time consuming; a tool is needed to enable a more rapid and consistent assessment of the risks involved. This session describes why a risk based approach to the use of cloud services is needed. It introduces the KuppingerCole Cloud Rapid Risk Assessment Tool developed by KuppingerCole to help organizations assess the risks around their use of cloud services together in a rapid and repeatable manner.
When moving to the use of cloud services it is most important to take a risk based approach. However the process involved is often manual and time consuming; a tool is needed to enable a more rapid and consistent assessment of the risks involved. This session describes why a risk based approach to the use of cloud services is needed. It introduces the KuppingerCole Cloud Rapid Risk Assessment Tool developed by KuppingerCole to help organizations assess the risks around their use of cloud services together in a rapid and repeatable manner.
Much has been written about “Black Swans”: unpredicted, massively game-changing and, in hindsight completely foreseeable events. Why do they happen and why are we surprised? More importantly, what can we do to mitigate against the unforeseeable?
The potential for game-changing risks is becoming more frequent and more impactful, due to global drivers and trends: from the technology front (speed of technical advance and disintermediation of technology) to the business front (concentration risk from outsourcing and interdependencies of supply chains) to the political front (Eurozone consolidation and global terrorism).
Risk is often seen as a dirty word in business. It is a thing that needs to be reduced to nothing, and has no possible good use in an organization, especially a security programme. This couldn’t be more wrong! Risk is an inherent part of any business, and yet it is often poorly recognized and leveraged in the security organisation.
In this presentation Thom looks at three areas of the risk conundrum to open the veil on the elusive art of understanding and ultimately measuring risk:
In this presentation, the risk of privacy in the modern communication technology, both Internet and mobile networks, is analyzed. It turns out, that users have to negotiate the risk of privacy between refraining from services, trusting services, using self-data-protection methods and trusting privacy enhancing technologies. Services, on the other hand, have to present themselves as trustworthy with respect of their competent and decent way to handle user data. This presentation identifies the privacy principles and related trust areas and protection means.
eIDAS Regulation 910/2014 on electronic identification and trust services provides the legal framework for the cross-border recognition of electronic identification means, ensures the legal certainty and interoperability of trust services (namely electronic signatures, electronic seals, electronic registered delivery services, electronic time stamp and web site authentication) and establishes the non-discrimination of electronic documents vis-à-vis their paper equivalent. The presentation focuses on the role of eIDAS in realising the digital single market and on the actions at the EU level to support the uptake of electronic identification and trusts services and the Regulation in the EU.
As value propositions for organizations have changed, risks and risk mitigation strategies have changed along with them. When value was derived chiefly from physical property, risk involved more traditional theft or destruction of property and the technologies of fences and vaults, and fire extinguishers and insurance were developed to mitigate such risk to physical property. When value propositions migrated increasingly to services, risk of loss of proprietary secrets emerged, and mechanisms of secrets and confidential information were deployed to mitigate the risk of loss of such intangibles. The digitization of information led to new intangibles markets and new risk mitigation (in the form of information flow controls such as DRM and encryption).
If you announced “we will remove the internet firewalls” different people will hear different things. However, to ensure continued security (confidentiality, availability and integrity) of your information assets you will need to re-prioritise your budget spend, fit out your team with different skill sets, and paugh wholeheartedly at your peers. This presentation discusses all the considerations you may want to take before setting yourself down the path of removing the external barriers, which by itself will lead you to re-define your vision, strategy and roadmap.
To help stakeholders balancing their needs to protect the organization against the needs to run the business - this is the new role IT professionals have to take over in the era of digital business. Moving forward, security people aren´t the "defenders against cyber threats" anymore. They are becoming the facilitators of a balance between the needs to protect and the needs to run a business. In digital Business, we are moving things into the cloud. We are moving things into software-as-a service. We don´t have control of them anymore. A lot of the traditional technologies just don´t apply. So we have to start looking at other things like contract clauses and the new types of controls which come along with the new breed of digital risks.
Keynote at the European Identity & Cloud Conference 2015
Keynote at the European Identity & Cloud Conference 2015
Cloud ecosystems are dynamic and flexible enablers for innovative business models. Some business models, especially for the European cloud market, however, still face challenges in security, privacy, and trust. A common approach among cloud providers addressing these challenges is proving one's reliability and trustworthyness by audit certificates. Basically, audit certificates are based on national and/or international as well as business and/or governmental compliance rules. The most prominent certifications in cloud computing are the "Open Certification Framework (OCF)" of Cloud Security Alliance, EuroCloud's "Star Audit", and "Certified Cloud Service" provided by TÜV Rheinland as well as more general certifications following ISO 27001, BSI Grundschutz, ENISA, and NIST.
This session discusses the state of the art of auditing and certifying cloud ecosystems and how current certification catalogues and schemes have to be enhanced to meet future requirements - requirements such as dynamic certification, on-demand-audits, and automatic monitoring and evaluations.
This talk proposes a data-driven selection of organisational, technical, contractual and assurance requirements, so secure usage of cloud solutions within the enterprise can be guaranteed. The importance of data oriented control selection is outlined and key control domains are introduced.
The threat landscape became wicked and rougher. Governments are desperately trying to fight the cyber threats. But their efforts will never satisfy the needs. As a company, community or individual you remain a vulnerable target. Applying a layered information security strategy can effectively reduce your risk exposure. Define your drivers and long term security goals; involve your stakeholders; engage your customers, employees and suppliers; clearly communicate and achieve your targets by implementing the security roadmap are the key steps for becoming a security intelligent company who will be better protected against the next attack.